RT Journal Article
T1 Who Is Interested in Developing the Way of Saint James? The Pilgrimage from Faith to Tourism
A1 Moscarelli, Rossella
A1 Lopez, Lucrezia
A1 Lois González, Rubén Camilo
K1 The Way Of St. James (Spain)
K1 Spirituality
K1 Faith
K1 Tourism
K1 Pilgrimage
K1 Secular Motivations
K1 Territorial “Re-Semanticisation”
K1 Heritage Space
AB The Way of St. James in Spain is the main European pilgrimage route. Currently, it is a cultural, tourist, monumental, spiritual, and sports route. For this reason, the paper aims to discuss the concept of the “Polysemy of The Way”, by analysing how the new pilgrims’ motivations are creating an inclusive and complex space, which is making a shift from religious space to a multifaceted tourism reality. We study the characterisation and interaction of the new actors involved in its development, maintenance and promotion. As a result, its original “space of faith” is now a “live heritage space”, thanks to the rehabilitation of routes, monuments, and landscapes. The combination of these motivational and spatial transformations enhances the factors of post-secular pilgrimage, such as slow mobility, the liminality and the sense of community, which the same actors assume as priorities for territorial management.
PB MDPI
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21929
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21929
LA eng
NO Moscarelli, R.; Lopez, L.; Lois González, R.C. Who Is Interested in Developing the Way of Saint James? The Pilgrimage from Faith to Tourism. Religions 2020, 11, 24.
DS Minerva
RD 22 abr 2026