Relief Work As Pilgrimage
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Relief Work As Pilgrimage
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Author : M.J. Heisey
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2015-08-20
Relief Work As Pilgrimage written by M.J. Heisey and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-20 with History categories.
In 1945, Elsie C. Bechtel left her Ohio home for the tiny French commune of Lavercantière, where for nearly three years she cared for children displaced by the ravages of war. Bechtel’s diary, photographs, and letters home to her family provide the central texts of this study. From 1945 to 1948, she recorded her encounters with French society and her immersion in the spare beauty of rural France. From her daily work came passionate musings on the emotional world of human interactions and evocative observations of the American, Spanish, and French co-workers and children with whom she lived. As a volunteer with the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Bechtel was part of the war relief efforts of pacifist Quakers and Anabaptists. In France between 1939 and 1948, MCC programs distributed clothing, shared food, and sheltered refugee children. The work began in the far southwest of France but, by the time Bechtel completed her service in 1948, had moved to the Alsace region, where French Mennonites clustered. Bechtel’s writings emerged from a religious context that included much travel, but little reflection on the significance of that travel. Yet, religiously motivated travel—an old tradition in southwest France—shaped Bechtel’s life. The authors consider her experiences in terms of religious pilgrimage and reflect on their own pilgrimage to Lavercantière in 2006 for a reunion with some of the people marked by the broader effort that Bechtel joined. To understand Bechtel’s experiences and prose, the authors examined archival sources on MCC’s work in France, gathered oral and written narratives of participants, and researched other war relief efforts in Spain and France in the 1930s and 1940s. Drawing on these various contexts, the authors establish the complexity, but also the significance, of pilgrimage and humanitarian service as intercultural exchanges.
Women And Pilgrimage
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Author : E. Moore Quinn
language : en
Publisher: CABI
Release Date : 2022-03-08
Women And Pilgrimage written by E. Moore Quinn and has been published by CABI this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-08 with Religion categories.
Women and Pilgrimage presents scholarly essays that address the lacunae in the literature on this topic. The content includes well-trodden domains of pilgrimage scholarship like sacred sites and holy places. In addition, the book addresses some of the less-well-known dimensions of pilgrimage, such as the performances that take place along pilgrims' paths; the ephemeral nature of identifying as a pilgrim, and the economic, social and cultural dimensions of migratory travel. Most importantly, the book's feminist lens encourages readers to consider questions of authenticity, essentialism, and even what is means to be a "woman pilgrim". The volume's six sections are entitled: Questions of Authenticity; Performances and Celebratory Reclamations; Walking Out: Women Forging Their Own Paths; Women Saints: Their Influence and Their Power; Sacred Sites: Their Lineages and Their Uses; and Different Migratory Paths. Each section will enrich readers' knowledge of the experiences of pilgrim women. The book will be of interest to scholars of pilgrimage studies in general as well as those interested in women, travel, tourism, and the variety of religious experiences.
A Pilgrim S Relief By M E S
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Author : PILGRIM.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879
A Pilgrim S Relief By M E S written by PILGRIM. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with categories.
Pilgrimage As Transformative Process
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Author : Heather A. Warfield
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-11-26
Pilgrimage As Transformative Process written by Heather A. Warfield and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-26 with Social Science categories.
Transformation has emerged as a prominent construct in myriad academic disciplines. Such transformational processes as movement from sickness to wellness, from grief to closure and from fractured to integrated are evident within the pilgrimage literature and are explored in this volume.
Crossing The Unknown Sea
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Author : David Whyte
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2002-04-02
Crossing The Unknown Sea written by David Whyte and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-02 with Business & Economics categories.
Crossing the Unknown Sea is about reuniting the imagination with our day to day lives. It shows how poetry and practicality, far from being mutually exclusive, reinforce each other to give every aspect of our lives meaning and direction. For anyone who wants to deepen their connection to their life’s work—or find out what their life’s work is—this book can help navigate the way. Whyte encourages readers to take risks at work that will enhance their personal growth, and shows how burnout can actually be beneficial and used to renew professional interest. He asserts that too many people blindly trudge through a mediocre work life because so many “busy” tasks prevent significant reflection and analysis of job satisfaction. People often turn to spiritual practice or religion to nurture their souls, but overlook how work can actually be our greatest opportunity for discovery and growth. Crossing the Unknown Sea combines poetry, gifted storytelling and Whyte’s personal experience to reveal work’s potential to fulfill us and bring us closer to ultimate freedom and happiness.
What I Learned On Pilgrimage Travels With The Lord Through The World
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Author : Rev. John J. Lombardi
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2019-07-12
What I Learned On Pilgrimage Travels With The Lord Through The World written by Rev. John J. Lombardi and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-12 with Travel categories.
What I Learned on Pilgrimage: Travels with the Lord Through the World is a travelogue of spiritual adventure of one priest’s journeys through this world. The book narrates many varied trips and pilgrimages of service and spirituality and how one can learn about oneself and other lands and peoples. From backpacking in Europe to serving with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India, through helping the poor in the Andes Mountains, to a pow-wow in the Big Sky country and visiting D-Day beaches and walking on the famous Camino in Spain, we may learn about the world, colorful cultures, self, and God. You will meet many personalities and pilgrims and, perhaps, whet your own inner-adventurer appetite for travel and godly adventure!
Tattered Pilgrims
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Author : Steven H. Propp
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2001-09-11
Tattered Pilgrims written by Steven H. Propp and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-11 with Fiction categories.
How do YOU react when you see a homeless person? Your answer may change after you read this novel. Travel along with with Japhy Righter, a 34-year old homeless alcoholic, who now finds himself living on the streets of River City, where the City Council is trying to shut down programs that are striving to help homeless people. At the same time, there’s a serial murderer on the loose in River City―who is preying on its homeless residents. Follow Japhy, his companions, and the other citizens of River City on a journey of hardship, and regret; and yet, ultimately: hope… “I saw more and more homeless people, walking the same path. To me, we looked like tattered pilgrims, making our way to a shrine after a long, arduous journey―only without the promise of blessedness.” —(From the Introduction) The author’s earlier novel, Work, Death & Taxes, is an apocalyptic murder mystery of the near future that asks the question, “What would it be like if your JOB became your LIFE?” He is currently working on a non-fiction book.
Pilgrimage Landscape And Identity
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Author : Marion Grau
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-07-30
Pilgrimage Landscape And Identity written by Marion Grau and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-30 with Religion categories.
Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity: Reconstructing Sacred Geographies in Norway explores the ritual geography of a pilgrimage system that arose around medieval saints in Norway, a country now being transformed by petroleum riches, neoliberalism, migration and global warming. What it means to be Norwegian and Christian in this changing context is constantly being renegotiated. The contemporary revival of pilgrimage to the burial site of St. Olav at Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim is one site where this negotiation takes place. St. Olav played a major role in the unification of regions of Norway into a nation united by Christian law and faith, though most contemporary pilgrims have only a passing interest in the historical background of the pilgrimage. The pilgrimage network comprises a wide variety of participants: individuals, casual groups, guided group pilgrimages, activist pilgrims raising awareness for causes such as climate change and hospice services, as well as increasing numbers of local and foreign pilgrims of various ages, government officials, pilgrimage activists, and pilgrimage priests supplied by the Church of Norway (Lutheran). Part of the study focuses on the Olavsfest, a cultural and music festival that engages the heritage of St. Olav and the Church of Norway through theater, music, lectures, and discussions, and theological and interreligious conversations. This festival offers an opportunity for creative and critical engagement with a difficult historical figure and his contested, violent heritage and constitutes one of the ways in which this pilgrimage network represents a critical Protestant tradition engaging a legacy through ritual creativity. This study maps how pilgrims, hosts, church officials, and government officials participate in reshaping narratives of landscape, sacrality, and pilgrimage as a symbol of life journey, nation, identity, Christianity, and Protestant reflections on the durability of medieval Catholic saints.
Investigation Of Un American Propaganda Activities In The United States
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939
Investigation Of Un American Propaganda Activities In The United States written by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with Communism categories.
Pilgrimage And Tourism To Holy Cities
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Author : Maria Leppakari
language : en
Publisher: CABI
Release Date : 2016-11-30
Pilgrimage And Tourism To Holy Cities written by Maria Leppakari and has been published by CABI this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-30 with Business & Economics categories.
This book covers the ideological motives and religious perceptions behind travel to sites prescribed with sanctity in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It covers sites that have drawn pilgrims and religious tourists to them for hundreds of years, and seeks to provide an understanding of the complex world of religiously motivated travel. Beginning with contemporary perspectives of pilgrimage across these religions, it then discusses management aspects such as logistics, infrastructure, malevolent behaviour and evangelical volunteers. Written by subject experts, this book addresses cultural sustainability for researchers and practitioners within religious tourism, religious studies, geography and anthropology.