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Spiritual Tourism: Travel and Religious Practice in Western Society

Spiritual Tourism: Travel and Religious Practice in Western Society

Norman, Alex

Hardcover

Series: Continuum Advances in Religious Studies, Book 4

Business GeneralReligion General General Sociology

ISBN10: 1441150447
ISBN13: 9781441150448
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Nov 24 2011
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
This book investigates spiritual tourism - tourism characterised by an intentional search for spiritual benefit - from a contemporary religious studies perspective. Using field research gathered from spiritual tourism locations in Asia and Europe, and utilizing contemporary scholarship on practices concerned with meaning and identity, it explores the phenomena of journeys that are taken for self transformation, tracing the history of transformative ideas in Western cultures of travel, and including the modes in which the travel experience has been communicated. Spiritual Tourism provides an important opportunity to comment on the role of tourism in contemporary conceptions of spirituality and spiritual practice in Western society.

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