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Spiritual Tourism
Alex Norman
其他書名
Travel and Religious Practice in Western Society
出版Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011-09-22
主題Social Science / Sociology of ReligionReligion / SpiritualitySocial Science / Sociology / GeneralReligion / Christian Living / Spiritual Growth
ISBN14411230839781441123084
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mx4SBwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.