Pilgrim Reverence as a Pathway to Ecological Conversion: An Analysis of Phenomenological Journaling along the Way

By fostering reverence, walking The Way can facilitate a critical tool in the promotion of what Pope Francis calls ecological conversion his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’. Re-reading series personal phenomenological reflections she wrote during course her 2012 and 2017 pilgrimages along Camino Frances through lens philosopher Paul Woodruff’s theory author explores emotional sources reverence pilgrims experience pilgrimage. Cultivated body non-religious but characteristically pilgrim-oriented ceremonies, ritual activities, acts perception, pilgrim experiences observes does not seem to draw from any single theological lexicon; it seems rather extend, all cases, into beyond feeling for human community, earth itself. It is spiritual exercise open humanity itself, where have opportunity foster recognition that everything connected our social, environmental, economic ecologies.