Pilgrimage as Transformative Process

Heather A. Warfield, Ph.D. (2013), North Carolina State University, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at Antioch University. She has published articles on the therapeutic value of pilgrimage and pilgrimage as healing from military combat. Her research is focused on pilgrimage as a psychological universal and the intersection of pilgrimage and wellbeing.Kate Hetherington, BSc (Hons) Psychology (1st Class) (2016), is an independent researcher within the domain of psychology. Her research focuses on the phenomenon of pilgrimage and its relationship with health and wellbeing.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Pilgrimage as Transformative ProcessHeather A. Warfield and Kate HetheringtonPart 1: Transformation of Pilgrimage Perspectives1 Substantive, Non-Substantive and Ontogenetic Perspectives on PilgrimagesShirley du Plooy2 Pilgrimage as Religiously EducativeAlexandria M. Egler3 From Existential to Ideological Communitas: Can Pilgrimage Connect and Transform the World?Heather A. WarfieldPart 2: Identity, Self and Wellbeing Transformation4 Peace Pilgrimage as Transformative Learning and Identity RedefinitionRoy Tamashiro5 Living and Letting Live, Reframing Atheist Travel into Understanding Cultural DifferencesChadwick Co SY SU6 The Camino de Santiago and Wellbeing: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Pilgrimage Experiences of Australian WomenKate Hetherington7 Sensuous Encounter Where Journey and Festival Meet: A Phenomenology of PilgrimageKip RedickPart 3: Historical and Communal Transformation8 Modern Influences along an Ancient Way: Pilgrimage and GlobalizationSharenda Holland Barlar9 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 JamesMiguel Taín Guzmán10 Pilgrimage to the Japanese American Incarceration Camps: Deploying Collective Memory for Social Justice and Communal HealingAnne M. Blankenship11 ‘Our Sacred Effort—Find Your Place in God’s Story’: Southern Baptist Global Missions and Evangelical PilgrimageScott Libson12 The Whithorn Way: Twenty-First Century Pilgrimage in ScotlandValentina Bold