Tourism, religion and spiritual journeys /
Contributor(s): Timothy, Dallen J
| Olsen, Daniel H.
Series: Routledge contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility ; 4.Publisher: London : Routledge, 2006Description: xv, 285 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415354455 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780415354455:; 9780415354455 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Pilgrims and pilgrimages | Tourism -- Religious aspects | Sacred spaceDDC classification: 331.4791 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Acknowldegments -- 1 : tourism and religious jpourneys / Daniel H. Olsen and Dallen J. Timothy -- Part 1 : concepts, concerns and management issues -- 2 : sacred spaces and tourist places -- 3 : religious and secular pilgrammage : journeys redolent with meaning / Justine Digance -- 4 : paradigms of travel : from medieval pilgrammage to the postmodern virtual tour / Lutz Kaelber -- 5 : travel and journeying on the Sea of FAith L perspectives from religious humanism / C. Michael Hall -- 6 : religious tourism as an educational experience / Erik H. Cohen -- 7 : empty bottles at sacred sites : religious retailing at Ireland's national shrine / Myra Shackley -- 8 : management issues for religious heritage attractions / Daniel H. Olsen -- Part II : religious traditions and tourism -- 9 : tourism and the spiritual philosophies of the "Orient" / Chao Guo -- 10 : nature religion, self-spirituality and New Age tourism / Dallen J. Timothy and PAul J. Conover -- 11 : Global Jewish tourism : pilgrammages and rememberance / Mara W. Cohen Ioannides and Dimitri Ioannides -- 12 : Buddhism, tourism and the middle way -- 13 : tourism and Islam : considerations of culture and duty / Dallen J. Timothy and Thomas Iverson -- 14 : pilgrammage in Sikh tradition / Rajinder S. Jutla -- 15 : Pilgrammage in Hinduism : historical context and modern perspectives / Rana P. B. Singh -- 16 : sacred places and tourism in the Roman Catholic tradition / Boris Vukonić -- 17 : tourism and informal pilgrammage among the Latter-day Saints / Daniel H. Olsen -- 18 : whither religious tourism? / Dallen J. Timothy and Daniel H. Olsen -- Index.
This volume consolidates what is known about religious tourism. It examines and challenges the existing paradigms, concepts and practices related to religious travel, pilgrimage and spiritually motivated travel.