Atheists on the Santiago Way: Examining Motivations to Go On Pilgrimage

Farias, Miguel; Coleman, Thomas J.; Bartlett, James E.; Oviedo, Lluís; Soares, Pedro; Santos, Tiago; Bas, María

doi:10.1093/socrel/sry019

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“…The emerging portrait from these studies is characterized by a lack of significant differences, which suggests there is no wellbeing-related penalty associated with a lack of belief. For example, in a field study of 360 individuals from 29 countries who were walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain, atheists and theists did not differ in positive/negative affect nor self-reported mental health problems [63].…”

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The psychology of nonbelievers

Užarević

Coleman

2021

Current Opinion in Psychology

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Nonbelief ostensibly develops from mechanisms (e.g., open-minded and analytic thinking styles) that differ from those undergirding religious cognition, and likely interacts with cultural influences. • Nonbelievers endorse a variety of beliefs and worldviews, such as rationalistic and humanistic ideologies that may serve compensatory functions. • Nonbelievers report meaningful and healthy lives comparable to those of believers. The (non)religion-health curvilinear relationship is supported across several national, ethnic, and religious contexts. • Nonbelievers can show prejudice toward ideological opponents, but its scope is contextual and limited.

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The psychology of nonbelievers

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Coleman

2021

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“…org/ slider/ proye cto-ultre ya/). An international survey on the motivation of pilgrims on the Camino was also conducted by the team of Antonio Gallegos (Gallegos et al, 2007) and a Spanish team (Farias et al, 2019;Oviedo et al, 2014).…”

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

Seryczyńska

Duda

2021

Pastoral Psychol

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In 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.

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“…5 Similarly, in every good done by saints before the coming of Christ, the promise of His goods can be observed. 6 In this context, both the concealing of real motives and bringing them only to trekking or excursions which so often emerge on the Camino de Santiago can be understood: it is the reference to external activity, in which, however, something else, something essential is hidden (Farias et al 2018). Pilgrimage from this perspective is a manifestation of the pilgrim in what implicitly expressed his decision to go to Santiago and bear many hardships (Bailey 2001).…”

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Mute Sacrum. Faith and Its Relation to Heritage on Camino de Santiago

Roszak

2020

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The problem of recognizing the true motivations of secular pilgrims is often experienced on the Camino de Santiago. The faith of pilgrims seems to be hidden under the cover of many behaviors of contemporary pilgrims. At the same time on the Camino de Santiago, there could be observed a significant change in how the sacred is perceived by pilgrims: their experience is more related to “time” or “relation/event”, than “place”. The clue is the correct notion of religiosity, which for Thomas Aquinas was not a set of contents, but the relation to the ultimate end. In this light, the heritage can speak and manifest its message, when the relation is reestablished. With this theological background, I will try to answer the main question about the explanatory dimension of faith, its relation to the meaning of heritage and art and I will offer two proposals for the renewal of the theological approach to pilgrimage.

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Atheists on the Santiago Way: Examining Motivations to Go On Pilgrimage

Cited by 39 publications

References 40 publications

The psychology of nonbelievers

The psychology of nonbelievers

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

Mute Sacrum. Faith and Its Relation to Heritage on Camino de Santiago

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