
- 256 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Approaching Spiritual Tourism
- Part I Finding Spiritual Tourism in the Field
- Chapter 2 Rishikesh: The Spiritual Marketplace
- Chapter 3 The Camino de Santiago: The Spiritual Workplace
- Part II Travel and Religion
- Chapter 4 A History of the Idea of Travel
- Chapter 5 Theories of Leisured Travel
- Chapter 6 Contemporary Forms of Religious Life
- Part III Understanding Spiritual Tourism in Context
- Chapter 7 India in the Mind of the Spiritual Tourist
- Chapter 8 The Camino de Santiago in the Mind of the Spiritual Tourist
- Chapter 9 Conclusions: Reading Spiritual Tourism
- Appendix A: List of Informants
- Appendix B: Whither Spiritual Tourism?
- Bibliography
- Index