Ian Reader

Pilgrimage in the Marketplace (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The study of pilgrimage often centres itself around miracles and spontaneous populist activities. While some of these activities and stories may play an important role in the emergence of potential pilgrimage sites and in helping create wider interest in them, this book demonstrates that the dynamics of the marketplace, including marketing and promotional activities by priests and secular interest groups, create the very consumerist markets through which pilgrimages become established and successful - and through which the 'sacred' as a category can be sustained.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134625963
• Artikelnr.: 39908368

Autorenporträt

Ian Reader is Professor of Religious Studies at Lancaster University. He was previously Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Manchester, and has worked at academic institutions in Japan, the UK, Denmark and Hawaii. His main research interests are on pilgrimage and on religion in the modern world.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Pilgrimages in Department Stores and Airport Malls: Modernity
Commerce and the Marketplace 2.Of Swans
Lakes and Constructions of the 'Sacred' 3. Religious Authorities and the Promotion of Pilgrimages 4. Merchants
Transport
Guidebooks and the Democratisation of Pilgrimage 5. Pilgrims in the Marketplace: Shaping
Producing and Consuming Pilgrimage 6. Scrolls
Singing Toilet Roll Holders
Martin Luther's Socks and Other Sacred Goods of the Marketplace 7. Strawberries
Camel Coolers and Luxury Hotels: Heritage
Hiking
Holidays and the Consumer Rebranding of Pilgrimage 8. Concluding Comments