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Highlighted Research in Pilgrimage Studies

Pilgrimage studies initiatives

Global Medieval Travel Writing: A Literary History, ed. Sebastian Sobecki

Centre for Pilgrimage Studies, York University, England

Oxford Pilgrimage Studies Network, Oxford University, England

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

The Berkeley Art and Interreligious Pilgrimage Project

Recent Research in Pilgrimage Studies

Ad Limina. Research Journal of the Way of St. James and the Pilgrimages XV. 2024. Collection of articles edited by Kathleen E. Jenkins and James Barber that includes works by Simon Coleman, Daniel H. Olsen, Roxana Pérez-Méndez & Mario Marzán, James Barber, Pilar Taboada-Zúñiga-Romero & Xosé M. Santos Solla, Kristi McLeod, Kip Redick, and Kathleen E. Jenkins.

Bolded names indicate leadership or affiliated faculty of the William & Mary Institute for Pilgrimage Studies

• Blitzer, D., Harris, M.B., and  Jackson, E.M. Affective Response And Pain measurement Correlations In A 500 Mile Pilgrimage: El Camino De Santiago. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 43(5):521, 2011.
• Boone, Benjamin I., James P. Barber.  “This Is the Way: Faculty on the Camino de Santiago”, Pilgrimage as Spiritual Practice. A Handbook for Teachers, Wayfarers, and Guides. Eds. André Brouillette, Jeffrey Bloechl.  Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2022. 113-125.
• Boone, Benjamin I.  Teaching along the Way: An Ethnographic Study of Faculty Growth and Sensemaking on the Camino de Santiago. Doctoral dissertation, William & Mary School of Education. 2019.
• Greenia, George D.  “Pilgrimage to Santiago (1610) by Diego de Guzmán.” Rincón del Traductores-Translators Corner. Observatorio de la lengua española y las culturas hispánicas en los Estados Unidos / Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States, Harvard University (2022): 3-29.
• Greenia, George D.  “David Martin Gitlitz (1943-2020).” Ad limina: Revista de Investigación del Camino de Santiago y las Peregrinaciones 12 (2021). 297-309.
• Greenia, George D.; Xosé M. Sánchez Sánchez. “The Rattle of Time and Travel.  The Acoustics of Medieval Pilgrimage”.  [«El traqueteo del tiempo y el viaje. Aspectos acústicos de la peregrinación medieval»] Ad limina 12 (2021): 205-239.
• Greenia, George D. “Le Camino de Santia­go dans le contexte des pèlerinages mondiaux”. Pèlerinage, marche pèlerine et marche de longue durée au Québec. Sous la direction de Michel O’Neill, Éric Laliberté. Québec: Université Laval, 2021. 21-41.
• Greenia, George D.  “Linda Kay Davidson (1946-2017).” Ad limina: Revista de Investigación del Camino de Santiago y las Peregrinaciones 10 (2019): 203-210. Republished in La corónica1 (2019): 7-17.
• Greenia, George D. “Bartered Bodies: Medieval Pilgrims and the Tissue of Faith.” The Pilgrim Body: An Anatomy of Intentional Movement. Eds. Matthew Anderson & Sara Terreault. International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage 7.1 (2019): 38-51.
• Greenia, George D. “The Awkwardness of Santiago Matamoros”. La Concha, quarterly bulletin of American Pilgrims on the Camino (October 2020). 38-39.
• Greenia, George D. “Santiago de Compostela.” Medieval Travel Writing: A Global History. Ed. Sebastian Sobecki. Cambridge UP. [forthcoming]
• Greenia, George D. “La resonancia del Camino de Santiago en la imaginación norteamericana.” Actas del XI Congreso Internacional de Asociaciones Jacobeas. Antequera, octubre de 2017. Málaga: Diputación, 2021. [forthcoming]
• Greenia, George D. “Peregrinos Americanos en Pausa.” Libredón, Revista de la Asociación de Amigos Galegos del Camino de Santiago (Otoño 2020): 26-38.
• Greenia, George D. “Literacy, Sanctity and Stumbling to Santiago.” CSJ Bulletin. The Confraternity of St. James Quarterly 146 (June 2019): 5-10.
• Greenia, George D. “What is Pilgrimage?” International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 6.2 (2018): 7-15.
• Greenia, George, Eileen Quinn Moore, Ian McIntosh, Robert Nickerson, Eds. “Introduction to Special Issue of What is Pilgrimage.” International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage 6.2 (2018): 1-6.
• Greenia, George D. “Pilgrimage and the Economy of Salvation.” Pilgrim Libraries: books & reading on the medieval routes to Rome & Jerusalem (2017-07-24).
• Greenia, George D. “Travelers’ Texts: pilgrims and their textual accessories.” Pilgrim Libraries: books & reading on the medieval routes to Rome & Jerusalem (2017-05-19).
• Greenia, George D. “Pilgrims as readers & writers: some reflections.” Pilgrim Libraries: books & reading on the medieval routes to Rome & Jerusalem (2017-01-27).
• Greenia, George D. “Faith and Footpaths: Pilgrimage in Medieval Iberia.” The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies. Eds. Javier Muñoz‑Basols, Laura Lonsdale, Manuel Delgado. Oxford, UK: Rout­ledge, 2017. eISBN 978-1-315-70989-5. 16-26.
• Greenia, George D. “The Future Generation Ride of the Lakota Sioux”. Pilgrimage in Practice: Narration, Reclamation and Healing. Eds. Ian S. McIntosh, E. Moore Quinn and Vivienne Keely. Wallingford, Oxfordshire: CABI, 2018. 137-47.
• Greenia, George D. “Santiago de Compostela.” Regeneration: A Literary History of Europe, 1348-1418. Ed. David Wal­lace. 2 vols. Oxford University Press, 2016. Vol. 2: 94-101.
• Harris, M.B. The Physiological Effects of Walking Pilgrimage. International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage: Vol. 7: Iss. 1, Article 9, 2019. https://arrow.dit.ie/ijrtp/vol7/iss1/9
• Harris, M.B. and Wolf, M.R. Cardiovascular disease risk factors following a 758 km, 30-day pilgrimage. International Journal of Sports Medicine, 34(08):727-731, 2013.

• Jenkins, Kathleen E., and Ken Chih-Yan Sun. 2019. “Digital Strategies for Building Spiritual Intimacy: Families on a ‘Wired’ Camino.” Qualitative Sociology; 42(4): 567-585.

• Jenkins, Kathleen E. Walking the Way Together: How families Connect on the Camino de Santiago. Oxford UP, 2021.

• Redick, Kip. "Kenotic Walking, Wilderness Sojourning, and Hospitality". Journal for the Study of Religious Experience 7.2 (2021): 114-139.Redick, Kip. “Glory Beyond the Camp: Waiting, Measure, and Hospitality in Pilgrimage.” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 29/2 (2020) 244-259.Redick, Kip. “Interpreting Contemporary Pilgrimage as Spiritual Journey or Aesthetic Tourism Along the Appalachian Trail.” International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage 6.2 (2018): 78-88.

• Redick, Kip. “Spiritual Rambling: Long Distance Wilderness Sojourning as Meaning-Making.” Journal of Ritual Studies 30.2 (2016): 41-51.

• Redick, Kip. “Profane Experience and Sacred Encounter: Journeys to Disney and the Camino de Santiago.” Environment, Space Place 5.1 (Spring 2013): 46-72.

• Redick, Kip. “Finding Meaning while Steeping in the Camino Cauldron.” The Camino de Santiago: Essays on Pilgrimage in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Tiffany Gagliardi Trotman. McFarland & Co. Inc. Publ., 2021: 151-177.
• Redick, Kip. “The Connection between Liminal Places and Hospitality in Manifesting Pilgrim Values and Identity.” Pilgrim Values and Identity. Edited by Darius Liutikas. CABI, Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Series. Lithuanian Social Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2021: 35-47.

• Redick, Kip. “Sensuous Encounter where Journey and Festival Meet: A Phenomenology of Pilgrimage.” Pilgrimage as Transformative Process: the Movement from Fractured to Integrated. Eds. Heather Warfield and Kate Hetherington. Brill, 2018. 77-87.

• Redick, Kip. “Aesthetic Sojourning on the Appalachian Trail.” Sensorial Trajectories. Edited by John Murungi and Linda Ardito. Cambridge Scholars, Oct. 25, 2018: 71-90.

• Redick, Kip. “Homelessness Countering the Destruction of Home: a Return to Sensuous Communication.” Home: Lived Experiences. Edited by John Mugungi and Linda Ardito. Forthcoming.

• Redick, Kip. “The Connection between Liminal Places and Hospitality in Manifesting Pilgrim Values and Identity.” Pilgrim Values and Identity. CABI, Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage. Forthcoming.

• Redick, Kip. “Finding Meaning while Steeping in the Camino Cauldron.” The Camino de Santiago in Contemporary Culture. McFarland. Forthcoming.

• Rennyson, K.E. and Harris, M.B. Relationship between Injury and Spirituality in Pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago. FASEB J 32:588.7, 2018.

• Spaeth, Barbette Stanley, Ed.  The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Mediterranean Religions. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.