The Challenging Future of Pilgrimage after the Pandemic: New Trends in Pilgrimage to Compostela

During the COVID-19 period, many authors observed changes occurring in pilgrimage along the Way of Saint James. Pandemics have appeared many times in the history of this route, causing changes in the behavior of pilgrims and their environment, such as improvements in healthcare. In this paper, we be...

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Auteurs: Roszak, Piotr 1978- (Auteur) ; Huzarek, Tomasz 1973- (Auteur)
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Langue:Anglais
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Publié: MDPI 2022
Dans: Religions
Année: 2022, Volume: 13, Numéro: 6
Sujets non-standardisés:B Covid-19
B Camino de Santiago
B Pilgrimage
B Religious Tourism
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Résumé:During the COVID-19 period, many authors observed changes occurring in pilgrimage along the Way of Saint James. Pandemics have appeared many times in the history of this route, causing changes in the behavior of pilgrims and their environment, such as improvements in healthcare. In this paper, we begin by examining the new contributions that the pandemic has made to the contemporary religious experience of the Camino. The pandemic can be read in a twofold manner: as an attempt to "verify" the motives and as an "opportunity" to preserve the essence of pilgrimage; it also seems to be capable of changing the attitudes of the residents living along the Camino towards the pilgrims. Next, we point to several phenomena that appear on the horizon of the post-pandemic Camino, such as the isolationism of pilgrims, the dominance of individualism, the medicalization of pilgrimage and the restrictions on access to religious practices. This opens up the question of new forms of asceticism with which the Camino has been associated and new trends in pilgrimage to Compostela.
ISSN:2077-1444
Contient:Enthalten in: Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3390/rel13060523