Understanding people’s motivations for a long-distance hiking trip

Basil, Michael D.

doi:10.1080/02614367.2022.2115108

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“…Telling stories of walking ritual as transformative to a counselor, coach, or a larger public audience through online blogs, published narratives, or podcasts is a social performance of being a good therapeutic self. Today's pilgrims live in a mediatized society where smartphones and tablets offer multiple private and public options for telling one's story, as well as communicating with significant others while traveling (Amerson et al 2020;Basil 2022;de Sousa and da Rosa 2020;Jenkins and Sun 2019;Jenkins 2021;Murray 2019;van der Beek 2018). Not all pilgrims compose or share personal stories of walking; however, digital narratives produced while walking, or on return home, are valuable data sources for uncovering pilgrims' goals, expectations, and perceived impacts of walking (Yamane 2000).…”

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“…Most of what scholars know about extended hiking as an ending ritual is embedded in empirical research dedicated to other concerns. For example, researchers have focused on the therapeutic individual and relational benefits and motivations of walking pilgrimage (Basil 2022;Frey 2004;Hetherington 2018;Jenkins 2021;Kurrat 2019). While some people walk for secular reasons, such as cultural tourism or leisure, scholars have found that extended walking is often a spiritual choice, with the intention of travel for transformation (Frost and Laing 2018;Oviedo et al 2014;Sørensen and Høgh-Olesen 2023).…”

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Walking Pilgrimage as Ritual for Ending Partnerships

Jenkins

2023

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Scholarship in pilgrimage studies suggests that people use travel to sacred sites to mark life transitions such as moving into adulthood, retirement, the death of a loved one, or the ending of an intimate relationship. This research has also illustrated how walking pilgrimage can provide physical and symbolic structures for individual therapeutic and spiritual practice. However, pilgrimage scholars have not put the experience of ending long-term partnerships at the center of analysis, and family scholars have yet to explore how people might use extended walking pilgrimage as ritual when relationships end. Recent scholarship in pilgrimage studies has called for a more dynamic and inclusive approach that highlights the multiple and varied social forces at work in travel to and around sacred spaces. I draw from existing empirical studies, recent theory in pilgrimage studies, the literature addressing divorce rituals, and my qualitative document analysis of published narratives of extended walking after ending long-term partnerships to identify important sociological questions, methods, and perspectives for future research.

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