Reprint
Sacred Sites, Rituals, and Performances
New Perspective for Religious Tourism Development
Edited by
September 2021
164 pages
- ISBN978-3-0365-1867-1 (Hardback)
- ISBN978-3-0365-1868-8 (PDF)
This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Sacred Sites, Rituals, and Performances: New Perspective for Religious Tourism Development that was published in
Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
Summary
The conceptual territory of religious tourism is fluid. While recreation and leisure-based motivation and behaviors are evident in religious tourism, this volume reiterates its rootedness in tenets from religious traditions and pilgrimages. Using fresh perspectives on place-stories, rituals, performances, that are central to pilgrimage and sacred sites, essays in this volume explain contemporary expressions of religious tourism and illustrate the dynamic nature of religious tourism as an ecosystem embedded in religious practices, rituals and performances. The explanations will benefit researchers and practioners alike and they can find numerous examples that show the significance of religious tourism for sustainable development of destinations.
Format
- Hardback
License
© 2022 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
festival; customer classification; factor analysis; motivation; folklore belief; World Youth Day; eventization of faith; religious tourism; Archdiocese of Lodz; Poland; shinto shrine; popular culture; tourist performances; material religion; pilgrimage; sacred sites; motorbiking; biker; Church of England; retreat; eventization of faith; pilgrimage center; sanctuary; sanctuary service zones; pilgrimage; religious tourism; city space; spatial development; tourist function; sacred sites; geography of religion; ancestral temple of Mazu; commodification; diaspora; folklorization; invention of tradition; pilgrimage; religious tourism; sacred sites; transnationalism; authenticity; spirituality; Mount Athos; hospitality; pilgrimage tourism; Buddhist pilgrimage; ritual ecology; Buddhism; Bodhgaya; Buddhist heritage; n/a