Traveling Souls: Contemporary Pilgrimage StoriesBrian Bouldrey from the Foreword by Pico Iver "Reading the wonderfully varied and unexpected stories assembled here, I was struck by how much the notion of pilgrimage today has to do with retrieving a sense of purpose (and simplicity, and constancy); with putting oneself, quite literally, in the footsteps of the past. Once upon a less secular time, almost everyone made pilgrimages, and most of the great works of our early literature--Dante's ascent into the stars, Chaucer's wanderers to Canterbury, the tales of Orpheus and Odysseus and Hercules--commemorate both inward and outward journeys; these days, I suspect, many of us travel in part to experience pilgrimage by proxy. Most of the travelers in this volume leave home, as I have done, to partake of someone else's pilgrimage, and so to learn what animates people to undertake such sacrificial tasks; the destination of pilgrimage is pilgrimage itself." "Table of Contents |
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ཤྩ ཤྩ 9 ཊུྤུ ཕུ ཆེ ཆ | 92 |
Joshua Tree Barbara Wilson | 106 |
Iona Satish Kumar | 126 |
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