Relief Work As Pilgrimage

Author : M.J. Heisey,Nancy Heisey
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498508117

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Relief Work as Pilgrimage by M.J. Heisey,Nancy Heisey Pdf

In 1945, Elsie C. Bechtel left her Ohio home for the tiny French commune of Lavercantière, where for nearly three years she cared for children displaced by the ravages of war. Bechtel’s diary, photographs, and letters home to her family provide the central texts of this study. From 1945 to 1948, she recorded her encounters with French society and her immersion in the spare beauty of rural France. From her daily work came passionate musings on the emotional world of human interactions and evocative observations of the American, Spanish, and French co-workers and children with whom she lived. As a volunteer with the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Bechtel was part of the war relief efforts of pacifist Quakers and Anabaptists. In France between 1939 and 1948, MCC programs distributed clothing, shared food, and sheltered refugee children. The work began in the far southwest of France but, by the time Bechtel completed her service in 1948, had moved to the Alsace region, where French Mennonites clustered. Bechtel’s writings emerged from a religious context that included much travel, but little reflection on the significance of that travel. Yet, religiously motivated travel—an old tradition in southwest France—shaped Bechtel’s life. The authors consider her experiences in terms of religious pilgrimage and reflect on their own pilgrimage to Lavercantière in 2006 for a reunion with some of the people marked by the broader effort that Bechtel joined. To understand Bechtel’s experiences and prose, the authors examined archival sources on MCC’s work in France, gathered oral and written narratives of participants, and researched other war relief efforts in Spain and France in the 1930s and 1940s. Drawing on these various contexts, the authors establish the complexity, but also the significance, of pilgrimage and humanitarian service as intercultural exchanges.

Author : E. Moore Quinn,Alison T. Smith
Publisher : CABI
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789249392

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Women and Pilgrimage by E. Moore Quinn,Alison T. Smith Pdf

Women and Pilgrimage presents scholarly essays that address the lacunae in the literature on this topic. The content includes well-trodden domains of pilgrimage scholarship like sacred sites and holy places. In addition, the book addresses some of the less-well-known dimensions of pilgrimage, such as the performances that take place along pilgrims' paths; the ephemeral nature of identifying as a pilgrim, and the economic, social and cultural dimensions of migratory travel. Most importantly, the book's feminist lens encourages readers to consider questions of authenticity, essentialism, and even what is means to be a "woman pilgrim". The volume's six sections are entitled: Questions of Authenticity; Performances and Celebratory Reclamations; Walking Out: Women Forging Their Own Paths; Women Saints: Their Influence and Their Power; Sacred Sites: Their Lineages and Their Uses; and Different Migratory Paths. Each section will enrich readers' knowledge of the experiences of pilgrim women. The book will be of interest to scholars of pilgrimage studies in general as well as those interested in women, travel, tourism, and the variety of religious experiences.

Author : David Whyte
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781573229142

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Crossing the Unknown Sea by David Whyte Pdf

Crossing the Unknown Sea is about reuniting the imagination with our day to day lives. It shows how poetry and practicality, far from being mutually exclusive, reinforce each other to give every aspect of our lives meaning and direction. For anyone who wants to deepen their connection to their life’s work—or find out what their life’s work is—this book can help navigate the way. Whyte encourages readers to take risks at work that will enhance their personal growth, and shows how burnout can actually be beneficial and used to renew professional interest. He asserts that too many people blindly trudge through a mediocre work life because so many “busy” tasks prevent significant reflection and analysis of job satisfaction. People often turn to spiritual practice or religion to nurture their souls, but overlook how work can actually be our greatest opportunity for discovery and growth. Crossing the Unknown Sea combines poetry, gifted storytelling and Whyte’s personal experience to reveal work’s potential to fulfill us and bring us closer to ultimate freedom and happiness.

Author : Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101585665

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A Sense of Direction by Gideon Lewis-Kraus Pdf

In medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it promises a different kind of escape. Determined to avoid the kind of constraint that kept his father, a gay rabbi, closeted until midlife, he has moved to anything-goes Berlin. But the surfeit of freedom there has begun to paralyze him, and when a friend extends a drunken invitation to join him on an ancient pilgrimage route across Spain, he grabs his sneakers, glad of the chance to be committed to something and someone. Irreverent, moving, hilarious, and thought-provoking, A Sense of Direction is Lewis-Kraus's dazzling riff on the perpetual war between discipline and desire, and its attendant casualties. Across three pilgrimages and many hundreds of miles - the thousand-year-old Camino de Santiago, a solo circuit of eighty-eight Buddhist temples on the Japanese island of Shikoku, and, together with his father and brother, an annual mass migration to the tomb of a famous Hasidic mystic in the Ukraine - he completes an idiosyncratic odyssey to the heart of a family mystery and a human dilemma: How do we come to terms with what has been and what is - and find a way forward, with purpose?

Author : Álvarez-García, José,del Río Rama, María de la Cruz,Gómez-Ullate, Martín
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781522557319

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Handbook of Research on Socio-Economic Impacts of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage by Álvarez-García, José,del Río Rama, María de la Cruz,Gómez-Ullate, Martín Pdf

Religious studies and research have gained a lot of interest and attention from researchers, policy makers, and practitioners over the last few years, but the socio-economic impacts have not been explored. Taking into account the profound economic impact the tourism and hospitality industries can have on regions and cities around the world, further research in this area is critical to analyze the extent of such impact and the ramifications that are associated with it. The Handbook of Research on Socio-Economic Impacts of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the social and economic factors in faith-based journeys. While highlighting topics such as tourist spending, spiritual tourism, and local development, this publication explores religious tourism in the middle age, as well as the methods of modern religious tourism. This book is ideally designed for business managers, cultural preservationists, academicians, business professionals, entrepreneurs, and upper-level students seeking current research on religious tourism and its socio-economic impacts.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1250 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Communism
ISBN : MINN:31951T00359525F

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Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944) Pdf

Author : Maria Leppakari,Kevin A Griffin
Publisher : CABI
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781780647388

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Pilgrimage and Tourism to Holy Cities by Maria Leppakari,Kevin A Griffin Pdf

This book covers the ideological motives and religious perceptions behind travel to sites prescribed with sanctity in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It covers sites that have drawn pilgrims and religious tourists to them for hundreds of years, and seeks to provide an understanding of the complex world of religiously motivated travel. Beginning with contemporary perspectives of pilgrimage across these religions, it then discusses management aspects such as logistics, infrastructure, malevolent behaviour and evangelical volunteers. Written by subject experts, this book addresses cultural sustainability for researchers and practitioners within religious tourism, religious studies, geography and anthropology.

Author : Marion Grau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197598658

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Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity by Marion Grau Pdf

Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity: Reconstructing Sacred Geographies in Norway explores the ritual geography of a pilgrimage system that arose around medieval saints in Norway, a country now being transformed by petroleum riches, neoliberalism, migration and global warming. What it means to be Norwegian and Christian in this changing context is constantly being renegotiated. The contemporary revival of pilgrimage to the burial site of St. Olav at Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim is one site where this negotiation takes place. St. Olav played a major role in the unification of regions of Norway into a nation united by Christian law and faith, though most contemporary pilgrims have only a passing interest in the historical background of the pilgrimage. The pilgrimage network comprises a wide variety of participants: individuals, casual groups, guided group pilgrimages, activist pilgrims raising awareness for causes such as climate change and hospice services, as well as increasing numbers of local and foreign pilgrims of various ages, government officials, pilgrimage activists, and pilgrimage priests supplied by the Church of Norway (Lutheran). Part of the study focuses on the Olavsfest, a cultural and music festival that engages the heritage of St. Olav and the Church of Norway through theater, music, lectures, and discussions, and theological and interreligious conversations. This festival offers an opportunity for creative and critical engagement with a difficult historical figure and his contested, violent heritage and constitutes one of the ways in which this pilgrimage network represents a critical Protestant tradition engaging a legacy through ritual creativity. This study maps how pilgrims, hosts, church officials, and government officials participate in reshaping narratives of landscape, sacrality, and pilgrimage as a symbol of life journey, nation, identity, Christianity, and Protestant reflections on the durability of medieval Catholic saints.

Author : Walter Starkie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520332539

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Road to Santiago by Walter Starkie Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1957.

Author : Walter Starkie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Road to Santiago by Walter Starkie Pdf

Author : Heather A. Warfield,Kate Hetherington
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004381223

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Pilgrimage as Transformative Process by Heather A. Warfield,Kate Hetherington Pdf

Transformation has emerged as a prominent construct in myriad academic disciplines. Such transformational processes as movement from sickness to wellness, from grief to closure and from fractured to integrated are evident within the pilgrimage literature and are explored in this volume.

Author : Rev. John J. Lombardi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781796039207

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What I Learned on Pilgrimage: Travels with the Lord Through the World by Rev. John J. Lombardi Pdf

What I Learned on Pilgrimage: Travels with the Lord Through the World is a travelogue of spiritual adventure of one priest’s journeys through this world. The book narrates many varied trips and pilgrimages of service and spirituality and how one can learn about oneself and other lands and peoples. From backpacking in Europe to serving with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India, through helping the poor in the Andes Mountains, to a pow-wow in the Big Sky country and visiting D-Day beaches and walking on the famous Camino in Spain, we may learn about the world, colorful cultures, self, and God. You will meet many personalities and pilgrims and, perhaps, whet your own inner-adventurer appetite for travel and godly adventure!

Author : Timothy Egan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735225244

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A Pilgrimage to Eternity by Timothy Egan Pdf

From "the world's greatest tour guide," a deeply-researched, captivating journey through the rich history of Christianity and the winding paths of the French and Italian countryside that will feed mind, body, and soul (New York Times). "What a wondrous work! This beautifully written and totally clear-eyed account of his pilgrimage will have you wondering whether we should all embark on such a journey, either of the body, the soul or, as in Egan's case, both." --Cokie Roberts "Egan draws us in, making us feel frozen in the snow-covered Alps, joyful in valleys of trees with low-hanging fruit, skeptical of the relics of embalmed saints and hopeful for the healing of his encrusted toes, so worn and weathered from their walk."--The Washington Post Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Timothy Egan decided to follow in the footsteps of centuries of seekers to force a reckoning with his own beliefs. He embarked on a thousand-mile pilgrimage through the theological cradle of Christianity to explore the religion in the world that it created. Egan sets out along the Via Francigena, once the major medieval trail leading the devout to Rome, and travels overland via the alpine peaks and small mountain towns of France, Switzerland and Italy, accompanied by a quirky cast of fellow pilgrims and by some of the towering figures of the faith--Joan of Arc, Henry VIII, Martin Luther. The goal: walking to St. Peter's Square, in hopes of meeting the galvanizing pope who is struggling to hold together the church through the worst crisis in half a millennium. A thrilling journey, a family story, and a revealing history, A Pilgrimage to Eternity looks for our future in its search for God.

Author : Victoria Preston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787384194

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We Are Pilgrims by Victoria Preston Pdf

Each year, 200 million of us embark on a pilgrimage of some kind. We have been making ritual journeys for millennia, ever since our ancient ancestors followed migrating animals, coming together to hunt and celebrate. The era of setting out as a matter of survival is long gone, but the impulse to travel somewhere sacred to us remains. Victoria Preston discovers that, whether we set forth in search of solace or liberation, as an expression of gratitude or faith, journeys of meaning and purpose are always a powerful reminder that we are each part of something much greater than ourselves. From the Stone Age pilgrims of Anatolia to the present-day crowds at Glastonbury, We Are Pilgrims is a quest to understand what drives this rich and varied human behaviour, unbounded by time or space, faith or identity.

Author : John Slight
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674915824

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The British Empire and the Hajj by John Slight Pdf

The British Empire governed more than half the world’s Muslims. John Slight traces the empire’s complex interactions with the Hajj—the annual pilgrimage to Mecca—from the 1860s, when an outbreak of cholera led Britain to engage reluctantly in medical regulation of pilgrims, to the Suez Crisis of 1956. He gives voice to pilgrims and officials alike.