By Alex Norman

ISBN-10: 1441150447

ISBN-13: 9781441150448

ISBN-10: 1472514610

ISBN-13: 9781472514615

This ebook investigates non secular tourism – tourism characterized by way of an intentional look for non secular profit – from a modern non secular reviews viewpoint. utilizing box learn collected from non secular tourism destinations in Asia and Europe, and using modern scholarship on practices taken with that means and identification, it explores the phenomena of trips which are taken for self transformation, tracing the heritage of transformative rules in Western cultures of shuttle, and together with the modes during which the commute adventure has been communicated. Spiritual Tourism presents an incredible chance to touch upon the function of tourism in modern conceptions of spirituality and religious perform in Western society.

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