Life changes after the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, including a deeper sense of spirituality

Brumec, Snežana

doi:10.1080/20440243.2022.2042948

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“…Religious pilgrims could be Dualists (or Pluralists) and would be such respondents as the one in Nilsson's (2016, p. 30) who "stated that »the sacred story is important for me because I believe in Jesus and Christianity«". Such religious believers may well "feel at home" outside their own society since their journey is to the center or a center of their religious faith and it is this which separates pilgrims 7 Interestingly, research by Brumec (2021;2022) and Brumec et al (2022) show that participating in a pilgrimage walk to Santiago can almost be likened to a traumatic event itself; in that such an experience is comparable to other examples of "exceptional human experience" (EHE) such as a near-death encounter that inclines one to change their behavior after the event.…”

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A Review of the State of Recent Santiago de Compostela Tourism Research (2016–2020)

Komyathy

2022

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As the issue of tourism is fundamentally connected with the modern incarnation of the pilgrimage routes to Santiago, this meta-analysis of research studies addressing pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela utilizes Cohen's typology of tourism (as adapted by Uriely, Yonay and Simchai). This survey of recent research (published between 2016 and 2020) suggests that this phenomenon is still much under-researched. Few studies have been published recently and even fewer that have generated recent data. Earlier it was thought that this phenomenon was taken as a sign of resurging religiosity and more recently as an illustration of spiritual Bauman-style "post-secularist" pilgrimage. This review suggests that pilgrimage travel to Santiago might well yield richer research data if probed from a less dichotomous perspective, focusing more on the variety of the populations on the multiple routes to Santiago and from additional research angles, as religious tourism, as therapy and as recreation.

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A Review of the State of Recent Santiago de Compostela Tourism Research (2016–2020)

Komyathy

2022

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“…Pilgrimage, in its contemporary form, is a complex religious expression. The expression of religious belief always focuses on spiritual expressions (Brumec, 2022;Tisdell, 2020), and spiritual expression would have implications for the emergence of social values reflected in behavior (Rashid & Ratten, 2021). This series of explanations, from the concept of religious expression, social values, and social action, is a logical consequence of the idea of the expression of religious/religiosity (Eliade, 1987).…”

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Philosophical Baseline of the Religious Pilgrimage and Its Significance for Dialogue among Religions

Hamsah¹,

Zarbaliyev²,

Soehadha³

2022

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<span lang="EN-US">As a religious phenomenon, pilgrimages have varying orientations. The diversity of orientations is determined by the level of motivation and meaning of the symbols attached to the pilgrimage. The connection between exposure and awareness of pilgrimage becomes the basis for pilgrims to interpret deeper aspects. The problem that arises later is the axiological interpretation of pilgrimage. In this reflective and theoretical study, the data was collected through in-depth reading about the pilgrimage of currently available academic literature. By applying philosophical analysis, the following article seeks to trace the most profound meaning of pilgrimage for creating positive interfaith relations. This study concludes that the most profound aspect of pilgrimage consciousness is archetypes that explain the uniformity of the spirit of pilgrimage carried out by the people of the religions. With that archetype, interfaith relations are easy to build because of the awareness of humanity and the apparent solidarity among religious adherents</span>

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“…It was created to study the life changes associated with NDEs and later expanded to measure life changes associated with spiritual or transpersonal experiences. I conducted a study (Brumec, 2022) exploring whether pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago causes similar life changes as some other types of EHEs. I compared life changes in beliefs, philosophy, and behavior reported by respondents after the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage experience (n = 630) with life changes reported after three other types of EHEs that were also assessed using the LCI-R: unitive mystical experiences (U/MEs; n = 163; Schneeberger, 2010), hypnotically-induced death experiences (HDEs; n = 32;…”

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Beneficial NDE-Like Aftereffects Among Camino de Santiago Pilgrims

Brumec

2022

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To the Editor:The purpose of this letter is to draw attention to the benefits of 'exceptional human experiences' (EHEs) that include but are not limited to near-death experiences (NDEs). These are extraordinary experiences that foster beneficial and transformative changes in the experiencer. The term EHE was coined by Rhea White (1993White ( , 1994, who started to research them after she had an NDE in a traffic accident. She argued that EHEs are spontaneously emerging unusual experiences that can be triggered by a variety of circumstances that include not only a close brush with death but also exposure to scenes of natural beauty, visiting sacred places such as shrines and cathedrals, and engaging intensely in meaningful long-term repetitive activities such as walking.All these elements are present among pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago (the Way of St. James) in northwest Spain. It is thus not surprising that in a qualitative and quantitative analysis of 32 Camino de Santiago travelogs that I led (Brumec et al., 2022), we found that pilgrims on the Camino reported a variety of exceptional experiences that neatly fit White's types of EHEs. Our findings suggested that these experiences are related to the aftereffects of walking the Camino and that the EHE perspective has proven fit for the study of the pilgrims' experiences and their aftereffects.An established instrument for assessing the aftereffects of EHEs is the Life Changes Inventory -Revised (LCI-R; Greyson & Ring, 2004). It was created to study the life changes associated with NDEs and later expanded to measure life changes associated with spiritual or transpersonal experiences. I conducted a study (Brumec, 2022) exploring whether pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago causes similar life changes as some other types of EHEs. I compared life changes in beliefs, philosophy, and behavior reported by respondents after the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage experience (n = 630) with life changes reported after three other types of EHEs that were also assessed using the LCI-R: unitive mystical experiences (U/MEs; n = 163; Schneeberger, 2010), hypnotically-induced death experiences (HDEs; n = 32;

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Life changes after the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, including a deeper sense of spirituality

Cited by 7 publications

References 16 publications

A Review of the State of Recent Santiago de Compostela Tourism Research (2016–2020)

A Review of the State of Recent Santiago de Compostela Tourism Research (2016–2020)

Philosophical Baseline of the Religious Pilgrimage and Its Significance for Dialogue among Religions

Beneficial NDE-Like Aftereffects Among Camino de Santiago Pilgrims

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