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From Private Devotion To Universal Phenomenon: The Way Of Saint James In Spain, The Case Of Navarra, Alban D’Entremont, Jesús Tanco Lerga
From Private Devotion To Universal Phenomenon: The Way Of Saint James In Spain, The Case Of Navarra, Alban D’Entremont, Jesús Tanco Lerga
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
This article analyses the process leading to the restoring, revitalisation and consolidation of the Way of Saint James in Spain in recent decades, and its conversion from a merely private and residual pilgrimage route of just several hundred individuals, into an important cultural and spiritual reality having a worldwide impact. The region of Navarra is used to highlight typical places of interest located on the Way of Saint James, and as an example of an experience that can be extrapolated and exported, of the activities, projects, events, decisions and actions undertaken in a huge collaborative effort that has given rise …
Event Running And Pilgrimage: A Comparative Case Study, Janice Poltrick-Donato
Event Running And Pilgrimage: A Comparative Case Study, Janice Poltrick-Donato
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
Janice Poltrick-Donato’s ‘Event Running and Pilgrimage’ links pilgrimage with the trials and triumphs of the amateur event runner. She demonstrates the statistical and existential parallels between the two practices, and shows how the suffering and accomplishments of running are experienced by some runners as a form of secular pilgrimage, a ‘journey to the self.’
The Physiological Effects Of Walking Pilgrimage, M. Brennan Harris
The Physiological Effects Of Walking Pilgrimage, M. Brennan Harris
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
M. Brennan Harris presents in ‘The Healthy Body’ his kinesiological research conducted on the Camino de Santiago, examining the effects of walking pilgrimage on the self-identified experience of well-being in pilgrim bodies.
Walking To Be Some Body: Desire And Diaspora On The St. Olaf Way, Matthew R. Anderson
Walking To Be Some Body: Desire And Diaspora On The St. Olaf Way, Matthew R. Anderson
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
In ‘Walking to Be Some Body’ Matthew R. Anderson uses the example of North American Scandinavian-background pilgrims walking Norway’s St. Olaf Way to parse the yearning of contemporary diaspora pilgrims who walk repristinated routes along ancient paths toward real or imagined homelands. These travellers literally incarnate contemporary tensions between the religious and the non-religious, the journey and the destination, and between the rootlessness of modern global tourism and the rootedness longed for in community and patrimony.