Spiritual Tourism: Travel and Religious Practice in Western Society by Norman, Alex

Spiritual Tourism: Travel and Religious Practice in Western Society (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781472514615)

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Spiritual Tourism: Travel and Religious Practice in Western Society by Norman, Alex

Spiritual Tourism: Travel and Religious Practice in Western Society

$51.95
Spiritual Tourism: Travel and Religious Practice in Western Society by Norman, Alex

Spiritual Tourism: Travel and Religious Practice in Western Society

$51.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Alex Norman, Norman Alex
ISBN-10: 1472514610
ISBN-13: 9781472514615
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 05/23/2013
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.53d
By Alex Norman
By Alex Norman
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Alex Norman is Lecturer, Tutor and Researcher at the Department of Studies in Religion, University of Sydney, Australia. He is also Co-editor of the journal Literature and Aesthetics.

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