Full Description
Narratives of journeys, voyages, and pilgrimages often guide their readers to broad questions about humanism and humanity from a holistic perspective. The essays in this volume approach the theme of travel in narratives of both real and imagined journeys from a variety of different disciplines—history, philosophy, politics, geopolitics, literary studies, regionalism—and examine their religious, psychological, psychoanalytical, philosophical, educational, and historical implications. The essays share an understanding of narratives of journeys across cultural borders as powerful educational tools that can model and contribute to meaningful dialogue with other states, cultures, and civilizations.
Contents
Introduction
Crossing Sacred Frontiers
Elena V. Shabliy
Homo Religiosus and Homo Viator
Chapter 1
Faith and the Fortunes of Travel in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
June-Ann Greeley
Chapter 2
Pilgrimages of Croats by Sea to Loreto and Assisi in the 18th Century: A Historiographic and Hermeneutical Analysis
Zrinka Podhraški Čizmek
Chapter 3
The Tossing and Turning of the Sea: Gregory the Great's Use of Seafaring Imagery to Describe his Spiritual Journey
Paul A. Brazinski
Chapter 4
Happiness on the Sisyphean Path: Reflections on Augustinian Rest in the Face of Divine Absence
Trevor B. Williams
Journeys across Cultural Borders
Chapter 5
When Robinson Crusoe Taught Swiss Youth to Read: The Travel Writing as Child Natural Education
Giorgia Masoni & Sylviane Tinembart
Chapter 6
Transcending Linguistic Borders in Crashaw's Teresa Hymns
Fabrice Schultz
Chapter 7
A Poetic Journey to Japan's Imaginary Past: Natsume Sōseki's Kusamakura
Kelly Hansen
Chapter 8
Sacred Journeys and the Libraries of Haruki Murakami: Journeys, Metaphors and Libraries
Beth Posner
Pilgrimage and Interfaith Dialogue
Chapter 9
Abhishiktananda's Journey across Hindu-Christian Borders
Enrico Beltramini
Conclusion
Elena V. Shabliy
About the Contributors
