Walking the Way Together by Kathleen Jenkins

Walking the Way Together by Kathleen Jenkins

In Walking the Way Together, Kathleen Jenkins offers an up-close study of parents and their adult children who walk the Camino de Santiago together. A Catholic visitation site of medieval origins with walking paths across Europe, the Camino culminates at the shrine of Saint James in the city of Santiago de Compostela, the capital of Galicia, an autonomous region of Spain. It has become a popular point of religious tourism for Catholics, spiritual seekers, scholars, adventurers, and cultural tourists. In 2019, well over 300,000 people arrived at the Pilgrims Office seeking a certificate of completion; they had walked anywhere from one hundred to over eight hundred kilometers. Jenkins brings alive family stories of investing in pilgrimage as a practice for strengthening kin relationships and becoming a part of each other's emotional and spiritual lives. The social and spiritual encounters that either supported or inhibited these relational goals emerge as fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters describe walking for six hours or more each day over mountain, rural, and urban paths. They are stories of pleasant surprises, disappointments, lessons learned, and the far-reaching emotional power that the memory of ritual failures and successes can carry. Ultimately, they show the potential for pilgrimage to foster and maintain intimate ties in today's fragile world, to build an engaged social consciousness, and to encourage reflection on digital devices and social medium platforms in the pursuit of spirituality.

This book is full of intriguing and compelling stories of pilgrims who traveled with adult family members as they traveled in search of the 'Camino promise' It covers an important spectrum of pilgrim studies that has so far been neglected by pilgrimage scholars—the effects of pilgrimage on family relationships. The book also discusses the role of technology not just in the pilgrim experience, but in inter-pilgrim relationships as well. A must read for modern pilgrimage studies scholars. * Daniel Olsen, Brigham Young University *
Kathleen Jenkins's book is superb. While it explores pilgrimage and its transformative effects, it also freshly analyzes pilgrims' intentions, preparations, and family structures. Her ethnographic research adds much to Camino studies. * Lynn K. Talbot, Roanoke University, Editor of Following the Yellow Arrow: Younger Pilgrims on the Camino *

Kathleen E. Jenkins is Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at William & Mary where she teaches courses on qualitative methods, social theory, sociology of religion, and sociology of families. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Brandeis University and her BA/MA in Religious Studies from Brown University. Jenkins is the author of Sacred Divorce: Religion, Therapeutic Culture, and Ending Life Partnerships (2014), and Awesome Families: The Promise of Healing Relationships in the International Churches of Christ (2005).

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Titel	Walking the Way Together
Autor	Kathleen E Jenkins
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Oxford University Press Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2021-10-08
Seitenanzahl	216
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