Writing Journeys across Cultural Borders

by Elena V. Shabliy Boston University (Editor), Kimarie Engerman (Editor), Elena V. Shabliy (Contribution by), June-Ann Greeley Sacred Heart University (Contribution by), Zrinka Podhraski Cizmek (Contribution by)

Overview

Narratives of journeys, voyages, and pilgrimages often guide readers to questions about humanism and humanity from a holistic perspective. The chapters in this volume explore narratives of both real and imagined journeys and examine their religious, psychological, psychoanalytical, philosophical, educational, and historical implications. What emerges is 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666900354
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	10/13/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of 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

Editorial Reviews

The pandemic of 2020 has largely interrupted a human activity in the act of journeying. What better time to reexamine literary narrations of the human journey? I thoroughly commend the work of Elena V. Shabliy and Kimarie Engerman in collecting and editing the nine chapters in this fascinating interdisciplinary collection, which reexamine pilgrimages and travel in the literary world, from the ancient to the modern. This book shall be of great interest to students and scholars of literature, as well as to those simply interested in learning more about journeying and concomitant observations of the transcendent.

Gwyn McClelland

Ancient worlds have known how we can travel on the vocal or emotional vibrations of words to take us on journeys across lands far and wide. Writing Journeys across Cultural Borders harvests sacred wisdom from diverse sources to remind us that while some borders divide, crossing them can bring deep enrichment for all.

Tony Wall

Since the beginning of time, a voyage has been as much about destiny as the destination. This insightful volume presents a whole range of accounts touching the transcendent and cultural meaning of the journey and different ways of border crossing. This gallery of travelers, pilgrims, literary characters, saints, and monks proves that being on the road is far more than just heading toward a geographical location; it is at times a genuinely transformative experience marked by everything what happens along the way.

Malgorzata Zachara-Szymanska

Since the beginning of time, a voyage has been as much about destiny as the destination. This insightful volume presents a whole range of accounts touching the transcendent and cultural meaning of the journey and different ways of border crossing. This gallery of travelers, pilgrims, literary characters, saints, and monks proves that being on the road is far more than just heading toward a geographical location; it is at times a genuinely transformative experience marked by everything what happens along the way.

Małgorzata Zachara-Szymańska