Religious Tourism and the Environment

Religious Tourism and the Environment
Author: Kiran A. Shinde
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020-09-30
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 178924160X

The remarkable growth in religious tourism across the world has generated considerable interest in the impacts of this type of tourism. Focusing here on environmental issues, this book moves beyond the documentation of environmental impacts to examine in greater depth the intersections between religious tourism and the environment. Beginning with an in-depth introduction that highlights the intersections between religion, tourism, and the environment, the book then focuses on the environment as a resource or generator for religious tourism and as a recipient of the impacts of religious tourism. Chapters included discuss such important areas as theological views, environmental responsibility, and host perspectives.

The Routledge Handbook of Religious and Spiritual Tourism

The Routledge Handbook of Religious and Spiritual Tourism
Author: Daniel H. Olsen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 659
Release: 2021-07-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0429575114

The Routledge Handbook of Religious and Spiritual Tourism provides a robust and comprehensive state-of-the-art review of the literature in this growing sub-field of tourism. This handbook is split into five distinct sections. The first section covers past and present debates regarding definitions, theories, and concepts related to religious and spiritual tourism. Subsequent sections focus on the supply and demand aspects of religious and spiritual tourism markets, and examine issues related to the management side of these markets around the world. Areas under examination include religious theme parks, the UNESCO branding of religious heritage, gender and performance, popular culture, pilgrimage, environmental impacts, and fear and terrorism, among many others. The final section explores emerging and future directions in religious and spiritual tourism, and proposes an agenda for further research. Interdisciplinary in coverage and international in scope through its authorship and content, this will be essential reading for all students, researchers, and academics interested in Tourism, Religion, Cultural Studies, and Heritage Studies.

The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion

The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion
Author: Michael Stausberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 881
Release: 2016-11-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0191045896

The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion provides a comprehensive overview of the academic study of religion. Written by an international team of leading scholars, its fifty-one chapters are divided thematically into seven sections. The first section addresses five major conceptual aspects of research on religion. Part two surveys eleven main frameworks of analysis, interpretation, and explanation of religion. Reflecting recent turns in the humanities and social sciences, part three considers eight forms of the expression of religion. Part four provides a discussion of the ways societies and religions, or religious organizations, are shaped by different forms of allocation of resources. Other chapters in this section consider law, the media, nature, medicine, politics, science, sports, and tourism. Part five reviews important developments, distinctions, and arguments for each of the selected topics. The study of religion addresses religion as a historical phenomenon and part six looks at seven historical processes. Religion is studied in various ways by many disciplines, and this Handbook shows that the study of religion is an academic discipline in its own right. The disciplinary profile of this volume is reflected in part seven, which considers the history of the discipline and its relevance. Each chapter in the Handbook references at least two different religions to provide fresh and innovative perspectives on key issues in the field. This authoritative collection will advance the state of the discipline and is an invaluable reference for students and scholars.

Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand

Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand
Author: Brooke Schedneck
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2021-06-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0295748931

Temples are everywhere in Chiang Mai, filled with tourists as well as saffron-robed monks of all ages. The monks participate in daily urban life here as elsewhere in Thailand, where Buddhism is promoted, protected, and valued as a tourist attraction. Yet this mountain city offers more than a fleeting, commodified tourist experience, as the encounters between foreign visitors and Buddhist monks can have long-lasting effects on both parties. These religious contacts take place where economic motives, missionary zeal, and opportunities for cultural exchange coincide. Brooke Schedneck incorporates fieldwork and interviews with student monks and tourists to examine the innovative ways that Thai Buddhist temples offer foreign visitors spaces for religious instruction and popular in-person Monk Chat sessions in which tourists ask questions about Buddhism. Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand also considers how Thai monks perceive other religions and cultures and how they represent their own religion when interacting with tourists, resulting in a revealing study of how religious traditions adapt to an era of globalization.

Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Management, 2nd Edition

Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Management, 2nd Edition
Author: Razaq Raj
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2015-09-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1780645236

Within the past 10 years ‘Religious Tourism’ has seen both economic and education-sector growth on a global scale. This book addresses the central role of religious tourism and interrelationships with other aspects of pilgrimage management. It provides practical applications, models and illustrations and looks at secular and sacred spaces on a global stage. The second edition sees the introduction of a new structure and the addition of new international case studies. It is an invaluable reference for academics, students and practitioners and is a timely text on the future of faith-based tourism and pilgrimage.

Conflicts, Religion and Culture in Tourism

Conflicts, Religion and Culture in Tourism
Author: Razaq Raj
Publisher: Cab International
Total Pages:
Release: 2017
Genre: Pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN: 9781786390653

Introduction to conflicts religion and culture in tourism / Razaq Raj & Kevin Griffin -- Consciousness in conflict / Rukeya Suleman & Balal Qayum -- Defamation of religion and freedom of speech / Ayesha Chowdhury & Razaq Raj -- Imagining the contours of culture : is religious tourism a precondition for conflict? / Maximiliano Korstanje, Maite Echarri Chavez & Lourdes Mustelier-Cisneros -- The essence of community cohesion through religious tolerance / Irfan Raja & Razaq Raj -- Religious tourism and pilgrimage in a non-religious country : the Czech Republic / Jan Rája -- Pilgrimage, cultural landscape, and tourism in the heritagization of churches and Christian sites in Nagasaki / Tinka Delakorda Kawashima -- Claiming territory : the role of pilgrimage in the struggle for a re-Christianisation of Sweden / Pierre Wiktorin -- Cuba and its Christian roots : a case for understanding religious tourism / Maite Echarri Chavez, Lourdes Mustelier-Cisneros & Maximiliano Korstanje - Visiting graves, tombs and shrines in Islamic law / Necmeddin Güney -- Religious spaces as discrete system : a case of Ayodhya, India / Sanjeev Singh, Nayan Srivastava, Kartikeya Sonker & Manas Ranjan -- Halal tourism : the case of Turkey / Yasin Bilim & Özgür Özer -- Kosher tourism : a Greek case study / Polyxeni Moira, Dimitrios Mylonopoulos & Panagiota Vasilopoulou -- War and cultural heritage : the case of religious monuments / Dimitrios Mylonopoulos, Polyxeni Moira & Katerina Kikilia

A Research Agenda for Religious Tourism

A Research Agenda for Religious Tourism
Author: Kiran A. Shinde
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2024-03-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1803928743

Incisive and interdisciplinary, this Research Agenda broaches topics that have been under-researched within religious tourism, including: place attachment and marketing; memory and modification of sacred landscapes for tourism needs; the darker sides of religious tourism; multi-stakeholder governance; mission-trips; and allied forms of tourism.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism
Author: Alan A. Lew
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118474481

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism presents a collection of readings that represent an essential and authoritative reference on the state-of-the-art of the interdisciplinary field of tourism studies. Presents a comprehensive and critical overview of tourism studies across the social sciences Introduces emerging topics and reassesses key themes in tourism studies in the light of recent developments Includes 50 newly commissioned essays by leading experts in the social sciences from around the world Contains cutting-edge perspectives on topics that include tourism’s role in globalization, sustainable tourism, and the state’s role in tourism development Sets an agenda for future tourism research and includes a wealth of bibliographic references

Spiritual Tourism

Spiritual Tourism
Author: Alex Norman
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011-11-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1441150447

First volume exploring spiritual tourism as a phenomenon in Western cultures of travel, discussing the relationship between contemporary tourism and secular approaches to religious practices.

Tourism, Religion and Pilgrimage in Jerusalem

Tourism, Religion and Pilgrimage in Jerusalem
Author: Kobi Cohen-Hattab
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2014-08-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317672119

Jerusalem is a city with a singular nature. Home to three religions, it contains spiritual meaning for people the world over; it is at once a tourist destination and a location with a complex political reality. Tourism, therefore, is an integral part of Jerusalem’s development and its political conflicts. The book traces tourism and pilgrimage to Jerusalem from the late Ottoman era, through the British Mandate, during the period of the divided city, and to the reunification of the city under Israeli rule. Throughout, the city’s evolution is shown to be intertwined with its tourist industry, as tourist sites, accommodations, infrastructure, and services transform the city’s structures and open spaces. At the same time, tourism is wielded by various parties in an effort to gain political recognition, to bolster territorial control, or to garner support. The city’s future and the role tourism can play in it are examined. While the construction of a “security fence” will have many implications on Jerusalem’s tourist industry, steps are proposed to minimize the effects of the security fence and optimize tourism. Written by leading academics, this title will be valuable reading for students, academics, and researchers in the fields of tourism, religious studies, geography, history, cultural studies, and anthropology.