"At Every Difficulty, I Asked and received." Compostela: Path of Religion, or Religion of the Way?

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Repopularized during the 1990s, the paths of Santiago de Compostela attract many pilgrims and walkers driven by different motivations. Many of these men and women repeat the experience several times, haunted by what they call "the spirit of the way" The image is clear. I read, sitting on a worn bench in front of the municipal youth hostel of Nájera, small town of about 8000 inhabitants in the heart of the tiny Spanish province of Rioja. We are o…