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El Camino: Walking to Santiago de Compostela

El Camino: Walking to Santiago de Compostela - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Lee HoinackiSeries:Penn State Lived Religious ExperiencePublish date:1996-09-15Pages:312
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penn State University PressISBN-13:9780271027951ISBN-10:271027959UPC:9780271027951Book Category:Religion, TravelBook Subcategory:Christian Living, EuropeBook Topic:Inspirational, Spain & Portugal, FranceSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.71 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SCBESRB04J

El Camino (Spanish for "the way") is a day-by-day account of a modern American pilgrim's solitary walk from St. Jean Pied de Port in France, across the Pyrenees and northern Spain, to Santiago de Compostela, believed since medieval times to be the burial place of Saint James. During thirty-two days in 1993, Lee Hoinacki trod the 500-mile route followed by Europeans for over a thousand years, stopping each evening at pilgrim hospices, some centuries-old, to write in his diary. His reflections range from the historical examination of religious sensibility to analyses of modern developments in architecture and technology, from the theological understanding of place to the mentality of mountain bike riders. Readers share in the personal religious growth of a traditional Roman Catholic who, toward the end of his life, finds himself in the welcome company of those who walked the same camino during the past centuries. The constant interplay between pertinent anecdotes from well-chosen fellow pilgrims, both ancient and modern, and Hoinacki's experiences of contemporary Spanish customs and behavior gives the book a captivating timelessness and spiritual insight rarely found in other modern chronicles of the pilgrimage to Santiago.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Penn State University PressISBN-13:9780271027951ISBN-10:271027959UPC:9780271027951Book Category:Religion, TravelBook Subcategory:Christian Living, EuropeBook Topic:Inspirational, Spain & Portugal, FranceSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.71 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SCBESRB04J

Lee Hoinacki is a former Dominican priest, professor of political science, and subsistence farmer. He holds degrees in philosophy, political science, Latin American Studies, and theology and has taught at Sangamon State University, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Penn State University, and, in Germany, at the University of Oldenburg and the University of Bremen.


Publisher: Penn State University Press

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Lee Hoinacki

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