By Dallen Timothy, Daniel Olsen
Religion and spirituality are nonetheless one of the commonest motivations for go back and forth - many significant tourism locations have built mostly because of their connections to sacred humans, areas and occasions. delivering a entire review of the first matters and ideas relating to this intersection of tourism and faith, this revealing publication provides a balanced dialogue of either the theoretical and utilized matters that vacation spot planners, non secular companies, students, and tourism provider services needs to care for on an everyday basis.
Bringing together a exceptional checklist of participants, this quantity takes an international technique and contains large empirical circumstances from Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Mormonism, New Ageism, Sikhism, Buddhism, and the non secular philosophies of East Asia. On a conceptual point, it considers, among different topics:
- contested heritage
- the pilgrim-tourist dichotomy
- secularization of pilgrimage experiences
- religious humanism
- educational points of non secular tourism
- commodification of non secular icons and services.
A vivid choice of essays, this striking e-book discusses many very important practices, paradigms, and difficulties which are at present being tested and debated. It increases an array of important and engaging questions and as such is a precious source for college students, students and researchers of tourism, faith and cultural studies.
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The meaningfulness of a given place derives to a large extent from its status in the relations that people have with each other. Even sites of solitude or social estrangement contain a social dimension, perhaps more so than those that thrive on contact and interaction with others. Indeed, the absence of society can be a powerful social force. The importance of place in social relationships goes beyond its role as the site where people interact. In fact, place serves as an integral element in all social relations, both as a determinant of those relations and as a product of them as well.
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