Research Agenda for Religious Tourism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.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.With contributions from top scholars, the book includes cases from across Europe and Asia, exploring pilgrimage sacred landscapes for different religions. Building on emerging themes including the importance of governance, conflicts associated with pilgrimage and religious tourism, gender and gendered dimensions, resilience in the wake of the recent pandemic, and newer ways of performing religious tourism such as virtual reality, it sets a research agenda for future inquiry.This thought-provoking Research Agenda will be a valuable resource for scholars of tourism, human geography, heritage studies, anthropology, and religious studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-03-26
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Elgar Research Agendas
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781803928739

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Edited by Kiran A. Shinde, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University and Joseph M. Cheer, Professor of Sustainable Tourism and Heritage, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University, Australia

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‘Historically, religious journey is assumed to be the oldest motive of human movement. Over time it became a popular tradition and has been studied in different contexts. These ten essays offer a critical appraisal of the literature, representing studies from Asia, Europe, India, and Japan. Fresh issues such as marketing, place attachment, the dark side of pilgrimage, spirituality, sacred geography, reciprocity between pilgrimage and religious journey are examined and illustrated with case studies, both in terms of theoretical construction and application. The messages conveyed in this anthology will provide a radiant platform linking perspectives, problems, and prospectives for deeper understanding and new dimensions of research in this field.’

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:Foreword xiiiKevin A. Griffin1 Religious tourism: the journey so far 1Kiran A. Shinde2 Memory, sacred landscapes and religioustourism: pilgrim perceptions in Ayodhya, India 21Amita Sinha and Shubhada Kamalapurkar3 Multi-stakeholder governance for religioustourism and pilgrimage routes in Europe 39Maria Laura Gasparini and Alessia Mariotti4 Short-term mission trips in Asia: intertwiningreligion, volunteering and tourism 57Grace Ann, Chua and Harng Luh, Sin5 The role of religious tourism for povertyalleviation in rural communities 71Jaeyeon Choe and Anne Marie Bagadion6 The role of place attachment on the marketing ofreligious sites for tourism 85Pascal von Beuningen7 The dark side of pilgrimage and religious tourism:conflict, contestations and fallouts 101Daniel H. Olsen and Kiran A. Shinde8 Virtual religious tourism: an agenda for future research 115Eleanor O’Keeffe and Ruth Dowson9 Walking tourism on a spiritual trail: competingneeds from the sacred landscapes 131Sabrina Meneghello10 Whither religious tourism research? Conclusionand final remarks 147Joseph M. CheerIndex 157