Recently added articles from CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health:
Pluralistic pilgrimage: travel as the quest for the strange.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... "The aim of knowledge," declares Hegel, "is to divest the objective world of its strangeness and to make us more at home in it." (1) Some might say the same of pilgrimage. William James quotes Hegel's statement in A Pluralistic Universe, a text that I'd like to propose as a model for ...
Encountering Gods and Goddesses: two pilgrimages to Greece.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Prologue A hotel room on the island of Samos, Greece. Close to midnight, the hotel quiet around us. The room is lit only by the flickering light of a candle that burns on a makeshift altar against the wall. My fellow watcher and I sit quietly, keeping vigil over the white ...
Dead serious: a theology of literary pilgrimage.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... <Pre>... for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. --George Eliot, Middlemarch ....
Seeing, being seen, and not being seen: pilgrimage, tourism, and layers of looking at the Kumbh Mela.
Sep 01, 2009; ... Introduction The black and white photograph is of a group of peasant women, wrapped in coarse woolen shawls against the January cold. (1) They look at the camera blankly--or is that with hostility at the camera's intrusion? Deliberately drained of color, the image seems as ...
The varieties of contemporary pilgrimage.(INTRODUCTION)(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Pilgrimages seem to be almost instinctive, or at least derived from behaviors now so ingrained in our species that it's difficult to distinguish between genetic and social origins. Of all the animals that migrate, we are surely among the most restless. But humans retain the influence of ...