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The complete resource for those planning a pilgrimage. This volume explores a number of aspects that help distinguish pilgrimage from ordinary travel, and provides concrete and straightforward tools for those who wish to "set their hearts on pilgrimage" (Psalm 84:5). The author has focused much of her study and vocation on the process and meaning of pilgrimage. In this volume, she offers reflections and resources to prepare, form, and engage pilgrims on their journeys and beyond. From pilgrima...

This comprehensive guidebook covers the first half of the Via Francigena - a 1900km pilgrim route that crosses Europe from Canterbury to Rome. This volume describes the walk from its start in Canterbury, to the halfway point of the route at the Great St Bernard Pass on the Swiss-Italian border. From Canterbury, the book splits the pilgrimage into six sections (with further start points in Calais, Arras, Reims, Besancon and Lausanne). All six start points are places where pilgrims can easily reac...

A witty and probing travelogue through the landscapes associated with The Book of Mormon, it argues for taking The Book of Mormon seriously as work of American storytelling.

"Camino De La Luna - Reconciliation" is the seventh and final book in the series (or ninth if you count "free Feeling Real Emotions Everyday" and "Japan Is Very Wonderful"). What divides us? What sets us against each other? What stops us from being able to come home to our true selves? I had found truth in Thailand, discovered another wall inside me and freed another part of my soul. There were things to be done, journeys to be taken, strangers to meet, mistakes and regrets to put right and...

A traveler's guidebook to religious houses all over Italy that accept overnight guests. Complete information about and directions for each house are included.

Centuries of Jewish life in Italy ever since the days of the Roman Empire are on display in this unique guide that features a treasure trove of architectural, cultural and religious gems. This book will guide the interested traveller to sites of Jewish interest throughout Italy complete with interesting boxed asides in the marginalia describing elements of Jewish life peculiar to Italy - culinary, linguistic, religious, and more.

In Jean Shinoda Bolen's best-selling, game-changing Goddesses in Everywoman , myths came to life in a whole new way that resonated with our own lives. Even fictional character Bridget Jones was reading that book. Now comes Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman, a groundbreaking new book that explores the archetype of the activist. Indomitable means untamed, unsubdued. It is the one-in-herself quality in girls and women who will not be victims, no matter what. To bring the Artemis archety...

Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant is an unprecedented photographic exploration of the holiest cities of Islam and the Hajj, or annual pilgrimage during Ramadan when more than a million faithful journey to Mecca's Great Mosque to commemorate the first revelation of the Qur'an (Koran). This book allows both Muslims and those unfamiliar with the Islamic faith complete access to the holiest sites of one of the world's major religions, practiced by a quarter of the world's population but often m...

Every year, some 200,000 people set out on the world's most famous pilgrimage route - 'the Camino', designated a World Heritage Site in 1993. Actually a network of paths with numerous starting places in France and throughout Europe, all routes converge to lead along Spain's northern coast to Santiago de Compostela. Here the shrine of St James, the patron saint of pilgrimage, was discovered in the 9th century. Already the preferred guide for German and Spanish pilgrims, this new English edition i...