| Description |
xii, 482 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Defining pilgrimage: What is pilgrimage? / George Greenia ; What is a "Sociology of Pilgrimage"? / Lesley D. Harman -- Pilgrimage narrative: Pilgrimage narration as a genre / Linda Kay Davidson & David M. Gitlitz ; Heart and soul : a story of pilgrimage / Larry Russell ; Doing, being, belonging and becoming on pilgrimage: a narrative analysis of autobiographical accounts of walking the Camino de Santiago / Michelle Courtney -- Contemporary pilgrimages: Secularization and the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage / Douglas Challenger ; Learning to walk / Larry Russell ; Eco-evangelical pilgrimage of life along the Sao Francisco River / Elizabeth W. Kiddy ; Dark tourism as meaningful secular pilgrimage / Eunice Gorman -- Pilgrimage and identity: Walking wounded: journeying toward healing / Eunice Gorman ; Authenticity discourses among pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago: a symbolic interactionist perspective / Lesley D. Harman ; The river and the rock: stranger and host on the Camino / Lesley D. Harman ; "First you walk the Camino, then, the Camino walks you..." pilgrimage and the body's knowing / Martha E. Stortz -- Pilgrimage as personal transformation: Desire, transformation and presence: a counselor's experience of embodied pilgrimage spirituality / Wanda Sawicki ; The Camino as focal place: exploring applications for daily life / Arthur Boers ; Walking the inner pilgrimage at home: reflections on labyrinth as pilgrimage and process / Wanda Sawicki ; Creating sacred space: walking a sacred path / Helen Will -- Reflections: Using this book: teaching the sociology of pilgrimage / Lesley D. Harman ; You are not alone in this / Katherine Marlin |
| Summary |
"A unique anthology examining both sacred and secular pilgrimages in a contemporary context." --p.4 of cover; Created by the need for a textbook to support a university course on the sociology of the pilgrimage |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-476) |
| Subject |
Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Textbooks.
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Travel -- Religious aspects.
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Shrines.
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Self-actualization (Psychology)
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| SUBJECT |
Santiago de Compostela (Spain) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79046621 -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278
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Camino de Santiago de Compostela http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010013310 -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278
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| Genre/Form |
Textbooks.
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| Author |
Harman, Lesley D., 1956-
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| ISBN |
9780986497025 (paperback) |
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0986497029 (paperback) |
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