| Title: | Pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago as a path to repair : morally grounded self-actualization and prosocial value shifts |
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| Authors: | ID Brumec, Snežana (Author) |
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| Files: |  RAZ_Brumec_Snezana_2025.pdf (276,77 KB)
MD5: 6E480FFF6C77CE5F0A93300547ED5D90
 https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16070863
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Scientific work |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | FF - Faculty of Arts
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| Abstract: | This study investigates how the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage influences personal value systems and self-actualization in the context of late modernity, where individualism and instrumental rationality often constrain moral and communal development. Drawing on Schwartz’s value theory and Kaufman’s scale of self-actualization, we conducted an online survey of 500 pilgrims to examine self-reported value changes following the pilgrimage. Factor analyses tested whether these changes aligned with theoretical value structures and how they related to self-actualization. The findings suggest that pilgrimage fosters a shift from self-enhancement toward self-transcendence, with self-direction aligning more closely with universalism and benevolence—indicating a socially oriented form of autonomy. Increases in self-actualization correlate positively with self-transcendence values (universalism and benevolence), self-direction, and conservation values (tradition, conformity, and security) while showing negative associations with power and achievement. The pilgrimage experience appears to realign values toward altruism, moral engagement, and sustainability. By integrating personal growth with ethical and communal orientations, the Camino de Santiago emerges as a meaningful context for multidimensional repair. In this way, the pilgrimage can be understood as a journey of repair—mending value hierarchies fractured by late modern life and restoring a sense of belonging, care, and transcendent purpose. |
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| Keywords: | pilgrimage, Camino de Santiago, transformation, value change, self-transcendence, self-actualization |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Submitted for review: | 03.05.2025 |
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| Article acceptance date: | 01.07.2025 |
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| Publication date: | 03.07.2025 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2025 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 1-14 |
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| Numbering: | Letn. 16, št. 7, št. članka 863 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-93989  |
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| UDC: | 316.334:2 |
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| ISSN on article: | 2077-1444 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 243887619 |
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| DOI: | 10.3390/rel16070863 |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 27.08.2025 |
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| Views: | 267 |
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| Downloads: | 11 |
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| Categories: | Misc.
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