A SOCIOLOGY OF PILGRIMAGE. EMBODIMENT, IDENTITY, TRANSFORMATION - Tecno-Libro

We are all on pilgrimage. On a voyage of spiritual discovery, enlightenment, self understanding, or physical mastery, we share in the search for something more . When i had the idea of teaching a university course on the Sociology of Pilgrimage, i realized that even though i had written a book (Harman, 2009), walked two caminos, served as hospitalera for three weeks in Spain, and immersed myself in all things pilgrimage-including the stimulating intellectual milieu of the institute for Pilgrimage Studies at the College of William and Mary - there was no template, no curriculum, indeed no course that had ever been taught like this at my institution, King s University College in London, Canada, where i have been on faculty since 1988[1]. While supporting my dream to teach such a course, colleagues questioned whether there was enough material in the way of research and publications to mount one. What is unique about this text is that practically every author and reviewer has been on pilgrimage during the bi