Pilgrimage as transformative process : the movement from fractured to integrated / edited by Heather A. Warfield, Kate Hetherington.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: pilgrimage as transformative process / Heather A. Wmjield and Kate Hetherington -- Substantive, non-substantive and ontogenetic perspectives on pilgrimages / Shirley du Ploay -- Pilgrimage as religiously educative / Alexandria M. Egler -- From existential to ideological communitas: can pilgrimage connect and transform the world? / Heather A. Warfield -- Peace pilgrimage as transformative learning and identity redefinition / Roy Tamashiro -- Living and letting live, reframing atheist travel into understanding cultural differences / Chadwick Co SYSU -- The Camino de Santiago and wellbeing: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the pilgrimage experiences of Australian women / Kate Hetherington -- Sensuous encounter where journey and festival meet: a phenomenology of pilgrimage / Kip Redick -- Modern influences along an ancient way: pilgrimage and globalization / Sharenda Holland Barlar -- The iconography of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela: types, nationalities and authors of the views of the basilica at the end of the way of Saint James / Miguel Tain Guzman -- Pilgrimage to the Japanese American incarceration camps: deploying collective memory for social justice and communal healing / Anne M. Blankenship -- 'Our sacred effort-find your place in God's story': Southern Baptist global missions and evangelical pilgrimage / Scott Libson -- The whithorn way: twenty-first century pilgrimage in Scotland / Valentina Bold.

"The construct of transformation has emerged as a prominent theme in academic discourse. Based on the accepted notion that processes and living organisms are in an ongoing state of development, it is unsurprising that this concept of transformation would find resonance within literature on the pilgrimage phenomenon. Examples of transformational processes intersecting with pilgrimage are the movement from sickness to wellness, from grief to closure and from fractured to integrated. That the pilgrimage journey itself can be construed as a transformational quest was noted by Winkleman and Dubisch (2005), who stated 'Life-transforming experiences are at the core of both 'traditional' and more contemporary forms of pilgrimage'. In the current volume, Warfield and Hetherington examine the transformational process of pilgrimage journeys"-- Provided by publisher.