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  1. Walking as Spiritual Practice: The Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.Sean Slavin - 2003 - Body and Society 9 (3):1-18.
    This article examines the experiences of pilgrims walking to the shrine of St James in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. It argues that walking is a social practice operating at the nexus between body and self. Pilgrims do not generally regard walking as a spiritual practice at the journey's outset. They do, however, develop a deep awareness of the multiple effects of walking as they progress along the route. Pilgrims report a variety of techniques in relation to their walking including using (...)
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  • Multi-sensory tourism in the Great Bear Rainforest.Bettina van Hoven - 2005 - In Alan F. Blackwell & David MacKay (eds.), Power. New York: Cambridge University Press.
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  • A Wild Roguery: Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines Reconsidered.Christine Nicholls - 2019 - Text Matters - a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture 9 (9):22-49.
    This article revisits, analyzes and critiques Bruce Chatwin’s 1987 bestseller, The Songlines,1 more than three decades after its publication. In Songlines, the book primarily responsible for his posthumous celebrity, Chatwin set out to explore the essence of Central and Western Desert Aboriginal Australians’ philosophical beliefs. For many readers globally, Songlines is regarded as a—if not the—definitive entry into the epistemological basis, religion, cosmology and lifeways of classical Western and Central Desert Aboriginal people. It is argued that Chatwin’s fuzzy, ill-defined use (...)
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  • Building faith: Religious pluralism, pedagogical urbanism, and governance in the sathya sai sacred city. [REVIEW]Tulasi Srinivas - 2009 - International Journal of Hindu Studies 13 (3):301-336.
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  • The Oceanic Feeling: Experiencing the Eternal through Swimming.Evan Boyle - forthcoming - Theory, Culture and Society.
    Recent times have seen an emergence of cold-water sea swimming as a popular pasttime for increased numbers of people in coastal regions. Within this paper, we seek to outline the philosophical relationship between water and society, right back to Thales. From this we continue through anthropological sources to highlight the relationship between culture and the sea throughout much of human history. Sociology offers only piecemeal theoretical bases for this relationship. Here, the concept of liminality is deployed as a mechanism through (...)
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  • ‘If I go in like a Cranky Sea Lion, I Come out like a Smiling Dolphin’: Marathon Swimming and the Unexpected Pleasures of Being a Body in Water.Karen Throsby - 2013 - Feminist Review 103 (1):5-22.
    Drawing on (auto)ethnographic research—on the process of becoming a marathon swimmer, this paper argues that conventional characterisations of marathon swimming as being ‘80 per cent mental and 20 per cent physical’ reprise a mind–body split that at worst excludes women and at best holds them to a masculine standard. This in turn draws the focus towards sensory deprivation, bodily suffering and overcoming, to the exclusion of the pleasures of swimming, beyond the expected ones such as the challenge of swim completion. (...)
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