Spiritual tourism
Subtitle: travel and religious practice in western society
By: Alex Norman
Series: Continuum advances in religious studies
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781441150448
Subjects: Religious aspects; Tourism
Description: "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.