Pilgrimage Aotearoa | Haerenga Tapu Aotearoa - eBooks.
Your Guide to 100 New Zealand Sites By Jenny Boyack and John Hornblow
Aotearoa’s hidden sacred paths and stories unfold as you journey through 100 sites imbued with history, hope, reconciliation, and spiritual reflection.
This book will help you:
- Discover and connect with 100 meaningful sites across Aotearoa
- Uncover deeper layers of New Zealand’s spiritual, cultural, and national story
- Plan pilgrimage journeys – solo, local, or group – with confidence
- Engage your inner life through reflection rooted in place
- Grow in empathy for bicultural and post‑colonial narratives
- Explore how faith and justice intertwine in Aotearoa
- Transform your sense of belonging and sacred awareness in your own neighbourhood
Features
- Richly researched vignettes on 100 sites from Northland to Rēkohu / Chatham Islands
- Historical, cultural, and spiritual context for each place
- Practical guidance: maps, directions, logistics, further reading
- Thoughtful reflection questions designed for Christian or broader spiritual use
- Poetry, prayers, Māori terms, and artwork to deepen engagement
- Suggested local pilgrimages and a framework for crafting your own.
You are buying a PDF eBook edition of this 232 page A5 book
ISBN 9781991027542
Colour photos throughout
Philip Garside Publishing Ltd (2024)
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Step into a pilgrimage of place, story, and soul in Pilgrimage Aotearoa / Haerenga Tapu Aotearoa.
This first-of-its-kind nationwide guide invites readers to engage the land and its tales as a living map of spiritual discovery. Far more than a travel manual, it is a companion for inner journeying – where roads, rivers, monuments, and marae hold threads of the sacred, waiting to speak.
In region-by-region chapters spanning the length and breadth of Aotearoa, the authors offer 100 carefully selected sites – some well-known, others quietly waiting in plain sight.
Each entry is a doorway into multiple layers: the lives of Māori and Pākehā, the intersections of mission, colonisation, and resistance, and the ongoing work of reconciliation.
Figures such as Ruatara and Henry Williams emerge not as distant saints, but as characters in the unfolding national narrative. Places like Parihaka become living mirrors for justice, peace, and restorative imagination.
Beyond history, the book is designed for transformation. At every stop you’ll find reflection questions, prompts for prayer or contemplation, and guidance to help you weave personal meaning into the sites you visit.
The final entry – “Your Place!" – turns the lens inward, offering a structured approach to create meaningful pilgrimages in your own region or neighbourhood.
Whether you are a curious traveller, a student of history, a seeker of spiritual depth, or someone longing for rooted belonging in Aotearoa, this guide meets you where you are.
It emboldens you to walk with awareness, converse with place, and carry forward the healing stories embedded in land and memory. • • • Praise for Pilgrimage Aoteaoroa
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Review in Tui Motu InterIslands March 2025
by Thomas and William Hassan Walker
"Pilgrimage Aotearoa is about visiting places in New Zealand and looking at them in a new way. For each place, the authors include a story, directions and a reflection. The places in the book are not necessarily “holy" places — some are churches but there are also memorials, monuments and places in nature.
To try the book out, over the school holidays we walked into Dunedin city and visited three of the places: the Thomas Bracken Memorial, First Church (Presbyterian) and St Paul’s Cathedral (Anglican). We found the “story" sections really helpful — we’ve lived in Dunedin all our lives but we never knew the national anthem was written in Dunedin or that St Paul’s was built because one priest and the community campaigned for it.
We used to think going on a pilgrimage meant travelling a long way to holy places. Now we know that you can go on a pilgrimage in your hometown — you just have to think about the place you’re going to and why you’re going.
This book would appeal to people who love to walk, who are curious about Aotearoa, and who might not be keen or able to go on an overseas pilgrimage but still want the experience."
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Review in Touchstone February 2025 SINGLEB