Essays and Articles
Pilgrimage and Post-modernism:Connecting with the
Camino Within
by Landon Roussel
What is it about the Camino de Santiago that has attracted so many people in recent years? In 1985 when Paolo Coelho walked the Camino, only 400 pilgrims per year arrived in Santiago. Now, the number is over 400 per day and rising.
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An Introduction to Ritual
by Murray Barton
The Oxford dictionary defines ritual as "the series of actions used in a religious or other ceremony". In secular society the "or other" in this definition hides a wide variety of rituals, such as the opening of parliament, which have no religious connections at all.
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