Walking as Spiritual Practice: The Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela

Slavin, Sean

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“…Research on pilgrimage is increasingly exploring its nature as a physical corporeal activity that facilitates inner, spiritual or emotional journeys (Maddrell, 2011;Maddrell, della Dora, Scafi, & Walton, 2015;Rountree, 2006;Slavin, 2003;Zimdars-Swartz, 2012). This aligns well with calls for 'research into the construction of, and interplay among, religion, society, and space, foregrounding the embodied subject' (Bailey, Harvey, & Brace, 2007, p. 143) that appreciate how bodily centred experiences are central to research into religious and spiritual arena.…”

Section: Geographies Of Religion and Interdisciplinary Pilgrimage Stumentioning

confidence: 99%

Celtic pilgrimage, past and present: from historical geography to contemporary embodied practices

Maddrell

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2016

Social & Cultural Geography

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Perigrinatio, the Latin term for pilgrimage was at the heart of the medieval Celtic church, but was this was understood and practised not only as a journey to a shrine, but more broadly as a spiritual journey, which could lead to an isolated hermitage or peripatetic evangelistic mission. In this paper, we outline the beliefs and practices of the broad assemblage known as the Celtic church, particularly the interleaving of pilgrimage, asceticism and landscape poetics, and how these have informed continued and renewed pilgrimage practices to sites of the early Celtic church by particular denominations, ecumenical groups and those interested in broader spiritualities. These sacred mobilities are explored through vignettes of embodied-emotionalspiritual practices situated in the landscapes and faith communities of Lough Derg, Ireland and the Isle of Man. They share geographical marginality, a focus on multiple Celtic saints and an enduring belief in the immanence of God, expressed through embodied spiritual practice in the landscape. However, they differ widely in matters of institutionalised structure, regulation, discursive scripting and gendered hierarchy, reflecting situated and denominational preferences for the ascetic and aesthetic spiritual legacies of the medieval Celtic church.Keywords: Celtic; pilgrimage; spiritualities; embodied-mobilities; landscape Pélerinage celtique, passé et présent: de la géographie historique aux pratiques incarnées contemporaines Perigrinatio, le terme latin pour pèlerinage était au coeur de l'église médiévale celtique mais il était compris et pratiqué non seulement comme un voyage vers un lieu saint, mais aussi plus généralement comme un voyage spirituel, qui pouvait mener à un ermitage isolé ou une mission évangéliste péripatétique. Dans cet article, nous présentons les grandes lignes des croyances et pratiques du vaste assemblage connu sous le nom de l'église celtique, en particulier l'entrelacement du pèlerinage, de l'ascétisme et des poésies du paysage et de la façon dont ils ont inspiré, continué et renouvelé les pratiques de pèlerinage vers des sites de l'église celtique primitive par certaines confessions, groupes oecuméniques et par ceux qui s'intéressent aux spiritualités au sens large. Ces mobilités sacrées sont explorées à travers des vignettes de pratiques émotionnelles-spirituelles incarnées situées dans les paysages et les communautés croyantes de Lough Derg en Irlande et sur l'île de Man. Elles partagent la marginalité géographique, une focalisation sur de nombreux saints celtiques et une croyance durable dans l'immanence de Dieu, exprimées à travers la pratique spirituelle incarnée dans le paysage. Toutefois, elles diffèrent considérablement dans les domaines de la structure institutionnalisée, de la règlementation, de l'écriture discursive et de la hiérarchie selon le sexe, reflétant des préférences situées et confession- & Cultural Geography, 2016 Vol. 17, No. 2, 300-321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2015 nelles pour les héritages ascétiques et esthéti...

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Section: Geographies Of Religion and Interdisciplinary Pilgrimage Stumentioning

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Celtic pilgrimage, past and present: from historical geography to contemporary embodied practices

Maddrell

Scriven

2016

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…Whilst Slavin (2003) and Wylie (2002; both use auto-ethnographic approaches combined with photography to further enhance our understanding of the relationality that exists between self and landscape, Pink (2007) advocates the use of video method. Where for example, in her video walking interview work with visitors to 'Green Lanes Community Gardens' she argues that less structured, ethnographic walking methods that are filmed and edited for an audience can help others develop sensory embodied (emplaced) understandings of another's experience (Pink 2007).…”

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Walking methods in landscape research: moving bodies, spaces of disclosure and rapport

Macpherson

2016

Landscape Research

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“…Waitt, Gill, & Head, 2009). Others consider the less routine practices such as those undertaken by tourists (Sarmento, 2016), artistic and performative interventions, (Edensor, 2000;Phillips, 2005;Ramsden, 2016) and long distance walking (den Breejen 2007;Olafsdottir, 2013;Slavin, 2003). In these irregular practices the walker encounters some aspects that are unfamiliar and outside their mundane experience.…”

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Taking a hike: exploring leisure walkers embodied experiences

Stevenson

Farrell

2017

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper uses walk along interviewing to investigate embodied experiences of walking on the South Downs Way, a long distance trail in southern England.Using a qualitative methodology -encompassing 93 walk-along interviews and auto-ethnographic reflections of two walker/researchers -it explores how walkers conceptualise their own walking experiences and captures this information while they are walking. It contributes to and extends the emerging body of literature which explores people's experience, specifically aiming to develop a deeper understanding of leisure walking experiences in the dynamic space of the walk.It examines a range of bodily sensations and emotional states associated with the leisure walking experience in the context of temporal and environmental aspects, identifying those feelings that are innate and those which are mediated by external conditions. Current experiences intertwine with memories of other places and times in a process where connections are made between mind, body, the immediate physical environment, self and others, and disconnections from everyday life and the wider environment. These connections and disconnections create a sense of perspective, achievement and well-being.

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Walking as Spiritual Practice: The Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela

Cited by 106 publications

References 10 publications

Celtic pilgrimage, past and present: from historical geography to contemporary embodied practices

Celtic pilgrimage, past and present: from historical geography to contemporary embodied practices

Walking methods in landscape research: moving bodies, spaces of disclosure and rapport

Taking a hike: exploring leisure walkers embodied experiences

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