Highlighted Research in Pilgrimage Studies

Pilgrimage studies initiatives

New and Recent Research in Pilgrimage Studies

Aist, Rodney. Walking the Jerusalem Circuit. In the Footsteps of Pilgrims Before the Crusades. Cascade Books, 2025

Ad Limina. Research Journal of the Way of St. James and the Pilgrimages XV. 2024. Collection of articles edited by Kathleen E. Jenkins and James Barber that includes works by Simon Coleman, Daniel H. Olsen, Roxana Pérez-Méndez & Mario Marzán, James Barber, Pilar Taboada-Zúñiga-Romero & Xosé M. Santos Solla, Kristi McLeod, Kip Redick, and Kathleen E. Jenkins.

Filios, D.K. “Heritagizing Margery Kempe on the Camino Inglés.” Postmedieval (2025).

McIntosh, Ian. Munro, Dane. Smith, Alison, Dunn-Hensley (Eds). 2024. Pilgrimage in the Twenty-First Century: A Kaleidoscope Inquiry. Cambridge University Scholars Publishing.

Olsen, Daniel and Dallen Timothy. 2024. The Routledge Handbook of Religious and Spiritual Tourism. Routledge.

Owens, Sarah. 2025. "Early modern Iberian religious women and pilgrimage: a network of support." Women's History Review.

Singh, Rana and Olimpia Niglio. 2025. Sacred Heritage and Pilgrimages in Cities. Springer.

Wright-Ríos, Edward. 2025. Devotion in Motion: Pilgrimage in Modern Mexico. University of Chicago Press.

A Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage. Project Muse, distributor. Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, 2024.

Georgiana Goddard King y The Way of Saint James (1920). La primera peregrinación erudita por el Camino de Santiago. Eds. Miguel Taín Guzmán & Patricio Fra López. Madrid: Akal, 2024.

Bolded names indicate leadership or affiliated faculty of the William & Mary Institute for Pilgrimage Studies

Blitzer, D., Harris, M.B., and Jackson, E.M. Affective Response And Pain measurement Correlations In A 500 Mile Pilgrimage: El Camino De Santiago. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 43(5):521, 2011.
Boone, Benjamin I., James P. Barber. “This Is the Way: Faculty on the Camino de Santiago”, Pilgrimage as Spiritual Practice. A Handbook for Teachers, Wayfarers, and Guides. Eds. André Brouillette, Jeffrey Bloechl. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2022. 113-125.
Boone, Benjamin I. Teaching along the Way: An Ethnographic Study of Faculty Growth and Sensemaking on the Camino de Santiago. Doctoral dissertation, William & Mary School of Education. 2019.
Greenia, George D. “Pilgrimage to Santiago (1610) by Diego de Guzmán.” Rincón del Traductores-Translators Corner. Observatorio de la lengua española y las culturas hispánicas en los Estados Unidos / Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States, Harvard University (2022): 3-29.
Greenia, George D. “David Martin Gitlitz (1943-2020).” Ad limina: Revista de Investigación del Camino de Santiago y las Peregrinaciones 12 (2021). 297-309.
Greenia, George D.; Xosé M. Sánchez Sánchez. “The Rattle of Time and Travel. The Acoustics of Medieval Pilgrimage”. [«El traqueteo del tiempo y el viaje. Aspectos acústicos de la peregrinación medieval»] Ad limina 12 (2021): 205-239.
Greenia, George D. “Le Camino de Santiago dans le contexte des pèlerinages mondiaux”. Pèlerinage, marche pèlerine et marche de longue durée au Québec. Sous la direction de Michel O’Neill, Éric Laliberté. Québec: Université Laval, 2021. 21-41.
Greenia, George D. “Linda Kay Davidson (1946-2017).” Ad limina: Revista de Investigación del Camino de Santiago y las Peregrinaciones 10 (2019): 203-210. Republished in La corónica1 (2019): 7-17.
Greenia, George D. “Peregrinos Americanos en Pausa.” Libredón, Revista de la Asociación de Amigos Galegos del Camino de Santiago (Otoño 2020): 26-38.
Greenia, George D. “Pilgrimage and the Economy of Salvation.” Pilgrim Libraries: books & reading on the medieval routes to Rome & Jerusalem (2017-07-24).
Greenia, George D. “Travelers’ Texts: pilgrims and their textual accessories.” Pilgrim Libraries: books & reading on the medieval routes to Rome & Jerusalem (2017-05-19).
Greenia, George D. “Pilgrims as readers & writers: some reflections.” Pilgrim Libraries: books & reading on the medieval routes to Rome & Jerusalem (2017-01-27).
Greenia, George D. “The Future Generation Ride of the Lakota Sioux”. Pilgrimage in Practice: Narration, Reclamation and Healing. Eds. Ian S. McIntosh, E. Moore Quinn and Vivienne Keely. Wallingford, Oxfordshire: CABI, 2018. 137-47.
Harris, M.B. The Physiological Effects of Walking Pilgrimage. International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage: Vol. 7: Iss. 1, Article 9, 2019. https://arrow.dit.ie/ijrtp/vol7/iss1/9
Harris, M.B. and Wolf, M.R. Cardiovascular disease risk factors following a 758 km, 30-day pilgrimage. International Journal of Sports Medicine, 34(08):727-731, 2013.
Jenkins, Kathleen E., and Ken Chih-Yan Sun. 2019. “Digital Strategies for Building Spiritual Intimacy: Families on a ‘Wired’ Camino.” Qualitative Sociology; 42(4): 567-585.
Jenkins, Kathleen E. Walking the Way Together: How families Connect on the Camino de Santiago. Oxford UP, 2021.
Jenkins, Kathleen. 2023. “Walking Pilgrimage as Ritual for Ending Partnerships.” Religions; 14(12)
Redick, Kip. American Camino: Walking As Spiritual Practice on the Appalachian Trail. Lexington Books, 2021
Redick, Kip. "Kenotic Walking, Wilderness Sojourning, and Hospitality". Journal for the Study of Religious Experience 7.2 (2021): 114-139.
Redick, Kip. “Spiritual Rambling: Long Distance Wilderness Sojourning as Meaning-Making.” Journal of Ritual Studies 30.2 (2016): 41-51.
Redick, Kip. “The Connection between Liminal Places and Hospitality in Manifesting Pilgrim Values and Identity.” Pilgrim Values and Identity. Edited by Darius Liutikas. CABI, Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Series. Lithuanian Social Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2021: 35-47.
Rennyson, K.E. and Harris, M.B. Relationship between Injury and Spirituality in Pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago. FASEB J 32:588.7, 2018.