Making Our Connections: A Spirituality of Travel - Couverture souple

Dandelion, Pink

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0334044081 ISBN 13 : 9780334044086

Editeur : SCM Press, 2013

Synopsis

We can travel more than we have ever had the ability to before. Indeed, travel is now part of everyday life for most of us, whether to or for work, or on holiday. This book looks at how we enhance the spiritual dimension of our lives as we constantly head off to somewhere else. How has the experience of travel changed? What are our motivations? How do we nurture spirituality as we seek to overcome the discomforts of mass transit? What have the modern means of motion done to how we relate to those we travel with and amongst? How are we to travel? The potential to learn, both in head and heart ways, from our mobility has never been greater. This book offers directions we may take to reclaim and rediscover an attitude to travel that builds community, and through that enhances our sense of Spirit at work in our lives and in the world.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Travel has always borne a cost and yet humanity has been persistently nomadic and movement and journeying have been reliable signifiers of spiritual obedience. As a race, we have been perpetually on the move, driven by need or by divine instruction or both. In the last two hundred years, more of us have had the option to travel, and travel as an unnecessary but somehow worthwhile pursuit became an exotic and romanticised luxury in the twentieth century. This is a book about how that romance of travel has become replaced by its commodification, a symbol of consumerism and a parade-society, a mode of societal dis-ease. It is a book about what has been lost in this process, particularly in terms of social and theological relations, and what could be gained by travelling less or travelling differently. Where does the tradition of spiritual journeying sit in relation to budget airlines and package holidays? Is it all part of holy travel, what Satish Kumar has called 'love miles', or is the journey now part of a purchase rather than providence? The author argues that there is a higher moral value to living locally and travelling little. Faith is best nurtured and community is best built in a less-travelled world and that our responsibility to the earth and to each other is to stay at home more and work in our neighbourhood. Enchantment (and obedience) is on our doorsteps if only we reclaim what it was we were originally seeking to find by leaving home: 'elsewhere' can be literally around the corner, the divine in the everyday if only we stop to listen

Biographie de l'auteur

Ben Pink Dandelion is Honorary Professor and Programmes Leader for the Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies at the University of Birmingham

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: SCM Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0334044081
• ISBN 13: 9780334044086
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192