Religious Tourism and Globalization (eBook)

The Search for Identity and Transformative Experience

Darius Liutikas, Razaq Raj (Herausgeber)

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2024
208 Seiten
CABI (Verlag)
978-1-80062-367-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book considers the impact of globalization on religious tourism. It presents a range of contemporary case studies on the transformations of pilgrimage experience related to new challenges such as virtualization, consumerism, cultural assimilation and the changes in the global religious landscape

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Is it possible to identify the positive and negative effects of globalization on religious tourism or to estimate the transformation of the internal and external constructs of pilgrimage by these effects?

In order to address these questions, this book highlights the importance of the search for identity and transformative experience during religious tourism. It also looks at how, recently, globalization has played a part in the changes of the concept of personal and social identity and the transformative experience of pilgrimage.

The chapters, consisting of carefully selected case studies, analyse possible effects including the adoption of different new rituals, new pilgrims' values, changes of tradition, acceptance of technologic innovations, development of new business models, and other environmental and sociocultural changes. The book provides:

· a conceptual framework for understanding the impacts of globalization;
· integrated cross-disciplinary approaches; and
· an insight into major religious travel practices in the age of identity challenges and worldwide transformations.

It will be suitable for researchers and students of religious tourism, pilgrimage, identity tourism, as well as related subjects such as sociology, anthropology, psychology, theology, history and cultural studies.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2024
• Reihe/Serie: CABI Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Series
• Co-Autor: Vitor Ambrósio, Silvia Aulet Serrallonga, Caglar Bideci, Mujde Bideci, Elzbieta Bilska-Wodecka, Dino Bozonelos, Nour Farra-Haddad, Stephen F. Haller, Jaffer Idris, Antonietta Ivona, Isilda Leitão, Dimitrios Mylonopoulos, Polyxeni Moira, Eleanor O’Keeffe, Spyridon Parthenis, Donatella Privitera, Ricardo Nicolas Progano, Alison T. Smith
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: culture and tourism motivation • gender and pilgrim’ identity • identity deconstruction via tourism • perceptions of religious tourism • perspectives of pilgrimage • Pilgrimage • Religious tourism • rituals of religious tourism • Secular pilgrimage • sociology of travelling • spiritual experience • Tourist experience • transformative experience • values and identity in travelling • valuistic journeys • virtual travels
• ISBN-10: 1-80062-367-4 / 1800623674
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80062-367-5 / 9781800623675