New Way – resocialization on the Camino de Santiago

2019 ◽  
Vol 585 (10) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Franciszek Mróz ◽  
Jacek Matuszczak
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Young Person ◽  
Santiago De Compostela ◽  
Innovative Project ◽  
Camino De Santiago ◽  
Individual Work ◽  
The World ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
The Way

Camino de Santiago, or the Way of St. James, is a pilgrimage route which has existed for more than 1,000 years and leads to the Shrine of St. James in Santiago de Compostela. Currently, it is the best-known pilgrimage and cultural route in Europe. It is often referred to as the “most beautiful road in the world” or the “main street in Europe”. The Way of St. James has been used in prisoner resocialization schemes for many years in Western Europe and since 2013 also in Poland. “New Way” is an innovative project consisting of a two-week pilgrimage of a prisoner who straight from the penitentiary sets out along with the guardian on the Way of St. Jakub from Lublin to Krakow. The aim of the program is to change a young person who, while walking for more than 400 km along Camino de Santiago, has a lot of time to think about his previous life. The task of the guardian is to offer assistance and individual work with the prisoner. Great importance in the project is attributed to the meetings of the prisoner with residents and pastors, who often help on the pilgrimage. An important element of the „New Way” is also to provide young person, after completing the Camino, study of professional competence, referral to an internship and then help in finding a job.

scholarly journals How Is Fortitude Among Pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago Expressed and Formed? Clues from a Study of Polish Pilgrims

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berenika Seryczyńska ◽  
Tomasz Duda
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Santiago De Compostela ◽  
Camino De Santiago ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Journal Of Business Ethics ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstractIn 2019 alone, the Camino de Santiago (the Way of St. James), one of Europe’s three most significant medieval pilgrimage routes, was followed by 347,511 pilgrims from around the world. This pilgrimage route has been the subject of numerous research projects conducted by international groups of specialists in various scientific disciplines. This study presents correlations between St. Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine on the virtue of fortitude and the experience of Polish pilgrims on the Camino based on 50 in-depth interviews conducted in the summer of 2019 on Monte do Gozo in Santiago de Compostela. This objective was achieved using the methodology of qualitative research following Steinar Kvale’s recommendations. The transcriptions of the interviews were coded based on the classifications in the Summa Theologica by Aquinas, classified into categories, and subsequently analyzed using MAXQDA Analytics Pro 2020. The virtue of fortitude is indispensable in the decision-making process and the ability to put one’s decisions into practice (Morales-Sánchez & Cabello-Medina, 2013. Journal of Business Ethics, 116(4), 717–734). One manifestation of the Camino pilgrims’ virtue of fortitude allowed them to believe that they would be more employable after they returned to their communities.

scholarly journals Análisis del perfil sociodemográfico de senderistas y ciclistas que recorren el Camino de Santiago (Analysis of socio-demographic profile of trails and riders walking through the way of Saint James)

Retos ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 56-59
Author(s):  
Antonio Granero Gallegos ◽  
Francisco Ruiz-Juan ◽  
Mª Elena García Montes ◽  
Antonio Baena Extremera ◽  
Manuel Gómez López
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Sampling Error ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
Santiago De Compostela ◽  
Camino De Santiago ◽  
The Social ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
El Alto ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Way

El fenómeno social en que se ha convertido el Camino de Santiago, su legado cultural y la íntima relación con la actividad físico-deportiva de tiempo libre, ha supuesto que nos plantearnos como objetivo analizar las características de los viajeros jacobeos actuales mediante un análisis sociodemográfico de los senderistas y ciclistas mayores de 15 años que recorren el Camino de Santiago. La investigación se ha desarrollado mediante la aplicación de un cuestionario autoadministrado en Santiago de Compostela a una muestra de 1.091 sujetos, utilizando el procedimiento de muestreo estratificado polietápico con afijación proporcional, con un margen de error muestral del ±3 % y un nivel de confianza del 95,5%. Los resultados han permitido elaborar el perfil del viajero jacobeo actual, poniéndose de manifiesto el alto grado de formación académica del mismo; asimismo, se produce una gran mezcla de nacionalidades y diversidad cultural en este itinerario, lo que procura, no sólo el enriquecimiento personal y espiritual, sino también las relaciones sociales y la interculturalidad.Abstract: The social phenomenon inwhich has become the Way of Saint James, its cultural heritage and close relationship with physical activity and sports leisure, has meant that we plan to analyze the characteristics of current Jacobean travellers current through an analysis of socio-demographic walkers and cyclists over 15 years travelling the Camino de Santiago. The research was developed by applying a self-administered questionnaire in Santiago de Compostela on a sample of 1091 subjects, using multistage stratified sampling procedure with proportional affixation, with a margin of sampling error of ± 3% and a level of with confidence 95.5%. The results have helped develop the profile of the current Jacobean travellers shown by the high level of academic training, similarly, there is a great mix of nationalities and cultural diversity in this route, which seeks not only personal enrichment and spiritual but also social relations and multiculturalism.

Réflexions sur l’histoire de l’AILA

AILA Review ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 2-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Valdman
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
The World ◽  
Umbrella Organization ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

Albert Valdman traces the history of AILA through his memories of its origins in the early 1960s in France to its place today as the umbrella organization of over 30 national associations from all over the world. He begins with a discussion of AILA’s early days — centered in Western Europe and focused on language learning — and follows its expansion in North America and the rest of the world and to other domains of applied linguistics. Along the way, he cites significant meetings, resulting publications, research groups, the question of language use within the organization and many linguists who have contributed to the evolution of AILA.

Walking the Way Together

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen E. Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Social Medium ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Santiago De Compostela ◽  
Family Stories ◽  
Camino De Santiago ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

In Walking the Way Together, Kathleen E. Jenkins offers an in-depth ethnographic study of parents and their adult children who walk the Camino de Santiago. A Catholic visitation site of medieval origins with walking paths across Europe, the Camino culminates at the shrine of St. James in the city of Santiago de Compostela, the capital of Galicia, an autonomous region of Spain. It has become a popular point of religious tourism for Catholics, spiritual seekers, scholars, adventurers, and cultural tourists. In 2019, 347,578 people arrived at the Pilgrim’s Office seeking a certificate of completion; they had walked anywhere from 100 to over 800 kilometers. Like other sites of pilgrimage and tourism, the Camino has been deeply altered by media and digital technologies. The book brings alive family stories of investing in pilgrimage as a practice for strengthening kin relationships and becoming a part of each other’s emotional and spiritual understandings. The social and spiritual encounters that supported and inhibited these relational goals emerge as fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters describe walking for six hours or more each day through mountain, rural, and urban paths. They are stories of pleasant surprises, disappointments, lessons learned, and the far-reaching emotional power that the memory of ritual failures and successes can carry. Ultimately, they present the potential for pilgrimage to foster and maintain intimate ties in today’s fragile world, to build an engaged social consciousness, and to encourage reflection of digital devices and social medium platforms in the pursuit of spirituality.

scholarly journals The Pedagogy of Pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago Written into Performance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Peters
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Public Pedagogy ◽  
Australian Woman ◽  
Northern Spain ◽  
Santiago De Compostela ◽  
The Public ◽  
Camino De Santiago ◽  
The World ◽  
Verbatim Theatre ◽  
Short Essay

Blister is a verbatim play that tells the story of Rosie, an Australian woman, who is walking the Camino de Santiago. The Camino is an 800km pilgrimage across Northern Spain that begins in the French Pyrenees and traverses mountains, vineyard covered hills, mesetas (plateaus) and urban centres before concluding at Santiago de Compostela. 200,000 people from across the world walk the Camino every year, often carrying their minimal belongings in a backpack, staying in dormitory-style accommodation with fellow pilgrims in local albergues, and walking between 20-35kms most days. This short essay describes how walking methods merged with the situated, relational and material verbatim theatre practice of community immersion in order to experience and represent the public pedagogy of the Camino in performance. Informed by a feminist position and engaging with theatrical conventions inspired by queer theory, excerpts of Blister are incorporated across the essay to demonstrate how theatre as a live and embodied medium provides a multi-dimensional platform to depict the motion, emotion and learning experienced by pilgrims walking the Camino.

scholarly journals Pilgrimage and religious tourism on the Way of St. James - the first European cultural route

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (43) ◽  
pp. 366-379
Author(s):  
F. Mróz ◽  
Ł. Mróz
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Santiago De Compostela ◽  
Camino De Santiago ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
Cultural Routes ◽  
Transportation Route ◽  
Intensive Growth ◽  
The Way

Since last two decades we notice an intensive growth of the pilgrimage movement along the Way os St. James. This route connecting furthests places in Europe and ending in Santiago de Compostela is based on a medieval transportation route called The Royal Route – Via Regia. The route exists for over 1000 years and is constantly developed thanks to actions taken by the authorities of the Catholic Church, governments and non-government organizations, as well as numerous enthusiastics of the Way of St. James. Keywords: The Way of St. James - Camino de Santiago, the route Via Regia, European Cultural Routes, pilgrimage, religious tourism, cultural tourism.

Becoming Politicized

2017 ◽  
Vol 225 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Barkas ◽  
Xenia Chryssochoou
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Beliefs About The Future ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
The Way

Abstract. This research took place just after the end of the protests following the killing of a 16-year-old boy by a policeman in Greece in December 2008. Participants (N = 224) were 16-year-olds in different schools in Attiki. Informed by the Politicized Collective Identity Model ( Simon & Klandermans, 2001 ), a questionnaire measuring grievances, adversarial attributions, emotions, vulnerability, identifications with students and activists, and questions about justice and Greek society in the future, as well as about youngsters’ participation in different actions, was completed. Four profiles of the participants emerged from a cluster analysis using representations of the conflict, emotions, and identifications with activists and students. These profiles differed on beliefs about the future of Greece, participants’ economic vulnerability, and forms of participation. Importantly, the clusters corresponded to students from schools of different socioeconomic areas. The results indicate that the way young people interpret the events and the context, their levels of identification, and the way they represent society are important factors of their political socialization that impacts on their forms of participation. Political socialization seems to be related to youngsters’ position in society which probably constitutes an important anchoring point of their interpretation of the world.

Understanding Suicide Terrorism

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (04) ◽  
pp. 245-250
Author(s):  
A. Speckhard
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Suicide Terrorism ◽  
Terrorist Organizations ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Single Region ◽  
Extensive Field ◽  
The World ◽  
Terrorist Groups

SummaryAs a terror tactic, suicide terrorism is one of the most lethal as it relies on a human being to deliver and detonate the device. Suicide terrorism is not confined to a single region or religion. On the contrary, it has a global appeal, and in countries such as Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan it has come to represent an almost daily reality as it has become the weapon of choice for some of the most dreaded terrorist organizations in the world, such as ISIS and al-Qaeda. Drawing on over two decades of extensive field research in five distinct world regions, specifically the Middle East, Western Europe, North America, Russia, and the Balkans, the author discusses the origins of modern day suicide terrorism, motivational factors behind suicide terrorism, its global migration, and its appeal to modern-day terrorist groups to embrace it as a tactic.

Searching for new Sources of growth. Are the Developing Countries Catching up with the Developed ones?

2015 ◽  
pp. 30-53
Author(s):  
V. Popov
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Gdp Per Capita ◽  
The West ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Divergence ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Relative Standing

This paper examines the trajectory of growth in the Global South. Before the 1500s all countries were roughly at the same level of development, but from the 1500s Western countries started to grow faster than the rest of the world and PPP GDP per capita by 1950 in the US, the richest Western nation, was nearly 5 times higher than the world average and 2 times higher than in Western Europe. Since 1950 this ratio stabilized - not only Western Europe and Japan improved their relative standing in per capita income versus the US, but also East Asia, South Asia and some developing countries in other regions started to bridge the gap with the West. After nearly half of the millennium of growing economic divergence, the world seems to have entered the era of convergence. The factors behind these trends are analyzed; implications for the future and possible scenarios are considered.

Tolerance: Circles of Inclusion and Exclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lasse Thomassen
Keyword(s):  
Representational Space ◽  
Legal Case ◽  
Religious Clothing ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
State Schools ◽  
The Way

This chapter on the concept and practice of tolerance makes use of the legal case Begum together with three other cases from the same period: X v Y, Playfoot and Watkins-Singh. The chapter analyses the debates about the cases in two broadsheets: The Guardian and The Telegraph. The cases all concerned the rights of schoolgirls in state schools to wear particular kinds of religious clothing and symbols: two different versions of the hijab, a Christian purity ring, and a Sikh bangle. Examining the way tolerance and difference and identity are articulated across the debates about the four cases, I show how lines of inclusion and exclusion are articulated, existing side by side and competing within the same representational space of British multiculturalism.

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