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Writing Journeys across Cultural Borders

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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.
Elena V. Shabliy is visiting researcher at Boston University. Kimarie Engerman is professor of psychology and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of the Virgin Islands.
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 Podhraski Cizmek 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 Soseki'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
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