Religious Tourism and Globalization by Liutikas, Darius; Raj, Razaq;

Rövid leírás:

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

Hosszú leírás:

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.

Tartalomjegyzék:

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Religious Tourism and Globalization. Challenges of Religious Tourism in a Global World. Darius Liutikas, Razaq Raj
• Chapter 2: Globalisation and pilgrimages in the Roman Catholic Church. Elzbieta Bilska-Wodecka
• Chapter 3: Religious Tourism after Globalization: Geopolitics, De-Globalization, and its Considerations. Dino Bozonelos
• Chapter 4: Novels promoting the Camino de Santiago. Vitor Ambrosio, Isilda Leitão
• Chapter 5: The Transformational Potential of Visiting Sacred Sites. Silvia Aulet
• Chapter 6: Change from Within: Pilgrimage as a Method of Personal and Political Integration in Response to Crisis. Stephen Haller
• Chapter 7: Moving Pilgrimage into The Virtual Realm: Understanding of The Advantages and Complexities of Immersive Technologies. Mujde Bideci, Caglar Bideci
• Chapter 8: A Global Turn? Pandemic “Virtual Pilgrimage” and the Politics Of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom. Eleanor O’Keeffe
• Chapter 9: Religious Tourism Landmarks in Lebanon: Gigantism and Oversized Christian Pilgrimages Sites. Nour Farra-Haddad
• Chapter 10: In the global spotlight: Japanese Buddhist destinations in regional areas. Ricardo Nicolas Progano
• Chapter 11: Pilgrims or Tourists? Visitors seeking out experiences on Mount Athos. Polyxeni Moira, Spyridon Parthenis, Dimitrios Mylonopoulos
• Chapter 12: Experiencing the Passion Play. Case studies from Germany, Slovenia and Greece. Dimitrios Mylonopoulos, Polyxeni Moira, Spyridon Parthenis
• Chapter 13: Seeking Identity and True Transformation: The Hajj Experience. Jaffer Idris
• Chapter 14: Selling Spirituality. Examples of a Mixture of Faith and Commercialization of Religious Symbols. Antonietta Ivona, Donatella Privitera
• Chapter 15: Preparing Students for Healing: Intersectional Approaches to Pilgrimage and Travel.