Just Traveling
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Just Traveling celebrates overcoming distance and seeking difference as defining human traits. Following the scriptural witness of God as the Earthroamer, the book explores the liminal qualities of traveling through six movements: anticipating, leaving, surrendering, meeting, caring, and returning. To travel is to move at the speed of being present to one's experiences, bridging distance and difference through acts of care. Drawing on personal experience as well as the wisdom of theology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and cultural studies, Hamman reimagines travel in a welcoming and beautiful, yet also complex and troubled world.
Whether leaving home serves our wanderlust and curiosity or has personal or spiritual purposes; whether we travel a few miles or cover vast distances, we travel best when we contribute to human flourishing. Care--the compassionate reaching out to someone or something--is the practice that allows one to travel differently. The spirituality of roads is filled with hopeful restorative potential, and life is best lived with the Earthroamer.
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Jaco J. Hamman is professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture and the director of the Program in Theology and Practice at Vanderbilt Divinity School and is extraordinary professor in Practical Theology and Missiology at Stellenbosch University. He holds degrees from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Stellenbosch University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute. Hamman has published numerous books on leadership and personal formation, the importance of play, technology, and young adult spirituality. He is a cofounder of Our Place Nashville. His hobbies include long-distance motorcycle travel, distilling, and hosting a braai.