The Camino de Santiago, the Route of Saint James, the Way--all describe a pilgrimage with multiple routes that pass through Spain and end at the Cathedral of Saint James in Santiago de Compostela. In ...the 21st century, this medieval tradition is seeing a revival with travelers, both spiritual and secular, who embrace it for different reasons. Offering insight into the personal journeys of contemporary pilgrims, this collection of new essays explores cultural expressions of the Camino from the perspective of literature, film and graphic novels, and looks beyond Spain and the "Caminoisation" of other historical routes.
In Contemplating the Camino Brendan McManus SJ prepares you spiritually, emotionally and practically for the task of walking the Camino de Santiago. Drawing on his own experience of this walk, and ...his background in Ignatian spirituality, he develops an approach to the Camino inspired by the teachings of Ignatius Loyola. Focusing on the balance of grief and joy in our lives, and the changes in our own emotions, Contemplating the Camino is a key to the challenges and triumphs of pilgrimage.
Traveling two and a half months and one thousand miles along the ancient route through southern France and northern Spain, Conrad Rudolph made the passage to the holy site of Santiago de Compostela, ...one of the most important modern-day pilgrimage destinations for Westerners. In this chronicle of his travels to this captivating place, Rudolph melds the ancient and the contemporary, the spiritual and the physical, in a book that is at once travel guide, literary work, historical study, and memoir.
In the summer of 2000, David Hlavsa and his wife Lisa Holtby embarked on a pilgrimage. After trying for three years to conceive a child and suffering through the monthly cycle of hope and ...disappointment, they decided to walk the Camino de Santiago, a joint enterprise-and an act of faith-they hoped would strengthen their marriage and prepare them for parenthood.Though walking more than 400 miles across the north of Spain turned out to be more difficult than they had anticipated, after a series of misadventures, including a brief stay in a Spanish hospital, they arrived in Santiago. Shortly after their return to Seattle, Lisa became pregnant, and the hardships of the Camino were no comparison to what followed: the stillbirth of their first son and Lisa's harrowing second pregnancy.Walking Distanceis a moving and disarmingly funny book, a good story with a happy ending-the safe arrival of David and Lisa's second son, Benjamin. David and Lisa get more than they bargained for, but they also get exactly what they wanted: a child, a solid marriage, and a richer life.
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Research suggests that costly displays of commitment increase trust and cooperation. In five studies (total
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> 1,700), we investigated whether costly behaviours are more effective in ...promoting trust when integrated within a religious rather than secular context using the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela as a costly display of commitment. First, we show that pilgrims base their pilgrim identity on physical effort (Studies 1A and 1B). Next, in three pre‐registered experiments (Studies 2–4) with the Spanish population, we compared the trustworthiness of people posting on Facebook about their participation in a religious pilgrimage and a secular pilgrimage/hike with various control posts. The results showed that pilgrims/hikers are perceived as more trustworthy than non‐pilgrims and that long‐distance pilgrims are perceived as more trustworthy than short‐distance pilgrims. Moreover, these effects are stronger when the pilgrimage is framed in a religious context compared to a secular context. Our research highlights the key role of religion in the costly signalling of commitment.
•Post-secular pilgrimages, polyvalent mobilities, re-workings of place identity.•Post-secular pilgrimages in the making of post-secular religious experience-spaces.•Pilgrimages as instances of ...post-secular journeys of becoming.
Current debates on and theorizations of (post)secularism lack sustained discussions of the role of pilgrimage tourism, spiritual journeys and sacred places. This article is a theoretically informed and empirically based study that explores contemporary pilgrimage tourism as an arena where ‘post-secular’ praxis and discourse fuse. It identifies the multiple ways in which the ‘post-secular’ is performed through pilgrimage tourism, viz. construction of identities, journeys of becoming and performativity as instances of mobile place making. Contemporary pilgrimage tourism to Santiago de Compostela is polyvalent. Pilgrimages cannot be read off as unambiguously religious, secular or post-secular. Pilgrimage tourism spaces are open-ended such that place identity and meaning are being continuously reworked.
This study aims to identify pilgrims’ motivations to undertake the Camiño de Santiago and examine differences regarding socio demographics and other characteristics. An online questionnaire was used ...to collect data from pilgrims that had travelled the Camiño de Santiago. A total of 1140 valid responses was collected from 45 different nationalities. The results indicate that pilgrims are mostly motivated by spiritual aspects, by wanting new experiences and for the nature and sports experience. Interestingly, religious motivations are the least important. The study also found that motivations differ according to several factors such as gender, nationality and the way the pilgrims undertook their journey. The findings of this study offer a better understanding of modern pilgrims, providing useful insights to stakeholders.
•Motivations to undertake the Camino de Santiago were examined among 1140 pilgrims.•Pilgrims' motivations were categorized in 8 different dimensions.•Spiritual motivations and new experiences are the most important motivations.•Religious motivations and promise fulfillment are the least important motivations.•Motivations vary among several features (e.g. nationality, the way journey is taken).
El objetivo de esta investigación es el estudio de los Libros de constituciones 1, 2 y 3 de la catedral de Santiago, elaborados en los siglos XIV y XV, mediante los cuales se rigió la institución. ...Una investigación que se inicia con el análisis de la naturaleza diplomática de los códices, su contenido y función y la relación que se establece entre estos aspectos y la materialidad de los libros: las características del soporte, los elementos decorativos y, sobre todo, la escritura empleada en cada uno de ellos. Estos factores, junto con la información sobre sus artífices materiales y el contexto histórico en el que se confeccionaron, nos permiten observar cómo y por qué la cultura escrita jugó un papel indispensable en la esfera gubernativa de la iglesia medieval.
El objetivo de este trabajo es dar a conocer una serie de noticias inéditas sobre piezas de platería compostelana de finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX, que en su mayoría se encuentran ...en paradero desconocido. La metodología empleada ha sido el vaciado de la Hemeroteca de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, donde hemos trabajado como fuentes con más de treinta periódicos compostelanos y de ámbito gallego, hallando cientos de noticias al respecto. Creemos que los textos escogidos demuestran que en la cronología propuesta existió en Santiago una generación de plateros muy importante, olvidada por la historiografía, además de desvelar la construcción de suntuosas obras de platería. Entre ellas destacan las piezas civiles, muy poco conservadas en Galicia, y sobre todo las encargadas para homenajear a políticos y personajes importantes del momento. Las noticias demuestran que en Compostela se construyeron extraordinarias obras con programas de iconografía clásica y de los más variados estilos, pasando del Neogótico al Clasicismo y el Barroco, con especial relevancia, por su originalidad, del Modernismo de raíz catalana.
gl O obxectivo deste traballo é dar a coñecer unha serie de noticias inéditas sobre pezas de pratería compostelá de finais do século XIX e principios do século XX, que na súa maioría se atopan en paradoiro descoñecido. A metodoloxía empregada foi o baleirado da Hemeroteca da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, onde traballamos como fontes con máis de trinta periódicos composteláns e de ámbito galego, atopando centos de noticias con respecto a este tema. Cremos que os textos escollidos demostran que na cronoloxía proposta existiu en Santiago unha xeración de prateiros moi importante, esquecida pola historiografía, ademais de desvelar a construción de suntuosas obras de pratería. Entre elas destacan as pezas civís, moi pouco conservadas en Galicia, e sobre todo as encargadas para homenaxear a políticos e personaxes importantes do momento. As noticias amosan que en Compostela se construíron extraordinarias obras con programas de iconografía clásica e dos máis variados estilos, pasando do Neogótico ao Clasicismo e ao Barroco, con especial relevancia, pola súa orixinalidade, do Modernismo de raíz catalá.
Since medieval times, pilgrimages have been a popular religious or spiritual undertaking. Even today, between seventy and one hundred million people a year make pilgrimages, if not for expressly ...religious reasons, then for an alternative to secular goals and the preoccupation with consumption and entertainment characteristic of contemporary life. InThe Way of the Stars,the journalist Robert Sibley, motivated at least in part by his own sense of discontent, recounts his walks on one of the most well-known pilgrimages in the Western world-the Camino de Santiago.
A medieval route that crosses northern Spain and leads to the town of Santiago de Compostela, the Camino has for hundreds of years provided for pilgrims the practice, the place, and the circumstances that allow for spiritual rejuvenation, reflection, and introspection. Sibley, who made the five-hundred-mile trek twice-initially on his own, and then eight years later with his son-offers a personal narrative not only of the outward journey of a pilgrim's experience on the road to Santiago but also of the inward journey afforded by an interlude of solitude and a respite from the daily demands of ordinary life. The month-long trip put the author on a path through his own memories, dreams, and self-perceptions as well as through the sights and sounds, the tastes and sensations, of the Camino itself.
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