Sacred Sites, Rituals, and Performances New Perspective for Religious Tourism Development

• Other Authors: Shinde, Kiran (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; 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; pilgrimage center; sanctuary; sanctuary service zones; city space; spatial development; tourist function; geography of religion; ancestral temple of Mazu; commodification; diaspora; folklorization; invention of tradition; transnationalism; authenticity; spirituality; Mount Athos; hospitality; pilgrimage tourism; Buddhist pilgrimage; ritual ecology; Buddhism; Bodhgaya; Buddhist heritage; n/a
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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.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (164 p.)

ISBN

books978-3-0365-1868-8
9783036518671
9783036518688

Access

Open Access