Pilgrimage beyond the Officially Sacred (eBook, ePUB)

Understanding the Geographies of Religion and Spirituality in Sacred Travel
Redaktion: Di Giovine, Michael A.; Choe, Jaeyeon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Pilgrimage beyond the Officially Sacred examines the many ways in which pilgrimage engages with sacredness, delving beyond the officially recognized, and often religiously conceived, pilgrimage sites.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000049060
• Artikelnr.: 59571559

Autorenporträt

Michael A. Di Giovine is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA, and Director of the West Chester University Museum of Antrhopology and Archaeology. He is also a former tour operator whose research in Europe (Italy and Spain) and Southeast Asia (Vietnam and Cambodia) focuses primarily on pilgrimage and tourism, heritage discourses and practices, religious movements and cults, and foodways. He is the Book Reviews Editor of both Journey and The Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, and is the editor of the book series The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility and Society with Lexington Books. A founder and Convenor of the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group at the American Anthropological Association, Michael has published widely on pilgrimage and religious tourism; among his many publications is the co-edited volume, The Seductions of Pilgrimage: Sacred Journeys Afar and Astray in the Western Religious Tradition (Routledge, 2015). Jaeyeon Choe is Senior Lecturer in the Department of People and Organizations at Bournemouth University, UK. She holds a PhD in tourism management with a minor in cultural anthropology from The Pennsylvania State University, USA. As an interdisciplinary researcher, her research areas revolve around spiritual/religious/wellness tourism, sustainable development, social sustainability, and poverty alleviation. She has worked on multiple tourism projects in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam) including a recent study, 'Tourism for SDGs: Wellness Tourism and Sustainable Development in Bali, Indonesia'. She serves as an associate editor for the e-Review Tourism Journal and is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. She also co-founded the Refugee and Migrant Leisure Network with community organizations and local councils.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Geographies of religion and spirituality: pilgrimage beyond the
'officially' sacred
Michael A. Di Giovine and Jaeyeon Choe
1. From the liminal to the lateral: urban religion in English cathedrals
Simon Coleman
2. Meaning-making in the course of action: affordance theory at the
pilgrim/tourist nexus
Joy W. Ackerman
3. Pilgrim routes as contested spaces in Norway
Hogne Øian
4. Tourism and sacred landscape in Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) National Park,
Nepal
Yang Mu , Sanjay K. Nepal and Po-Hsin Lai
5. Cultural tourism between local and transnational identities: Jewish
heritage in Syracuse, Italy
Andrea Corsale and Shaul Krakover
6. Wak'a/shrine making and pilgrimage tourism in Copacabana, Bolivia
Jessica Joyce Christie
7. Reframing and Reconceptualising Gambling tourism in Macau as a Chinese
Pilgrimage
Michael O'Regan , Jaeyeon Choe and Michael Di Giovine
8. Hierarchical value map of religious tourists visiting the Vatican
City/Rome
Bona Kim and Seongseop (Sam) Kim