On the road to being there : studies in pilgrimage and tourism in late modernity / edited by William H. Swatos, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Swatos, William H., Jr., 1946-

Series:

Religion and the social order ; v. 12.

Religion and the social order, 1061-5210 ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Tourism--Religious aspects.

Tourism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume consists of a collection of twelve empirical studies that address theoretical and practical issues relating to pilgrimage and tourism activities in late modernity. As a contribution to the Religion and Social Order series sponsored by the Association for the Sociology of Religion, these studies are particularly directed to assessing both the role of religion in the pilgrimage/tourism nexus and the ways in which religious expressions have changed as a result of the technological and social changes of late modernity that affect human behavior in a more general sense. The chapters address neo-pagan pilgrimage tours to ancient pagan temples, travels to spiritual healers, the development of historical sites by American religious movements of nineteenth-century origin, labyrinths, pilgrimages that emphasize walking a journey rather than visiting buildings, virtual pilgrimage, the Roman Jubilee of 2000, Kyôto's Gion Festival, and similar topics.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

PREFACE: HALF AND HALF

- William H. Swatos, Jr

CHAPTER ONE FOR CHARLES AND FOR ENGLAND: PILGRIMAGE WITHOUT TOURISM

- William H. Swatos, Jr.

CHAPTER TWO JOURNEYS TO THE GODDESS: PILGRIMAGE AND TOURISM IN THE NEW AGE

- Kathryn Rountree

CHAPTER THREE THE VIEW FROM THE EDGE: PILGRIMAGE AND TRANSFORMATION

- Elizabeth Weiss Ozorak

CHAPTER FOUR LABYRINTH AS HETEROTOPIA: THE PILGRIM'S CREATION OF SPACE

- Lori G. Beaman

CHAPTER FIVE SPIRITUAL TOURISM: BRAZILIAN FAITH HEALING GOES GLOBAL

- Cristina Rocha

CHAPTER SIX DESERT PILGRIMAGE: LIMINALITY, TRANSFORMATION, AND THE OTHER AT THE BURNING MAN FESTIVAL

- Lee Gilmore

CHAPTER SEVEN THE POLITICS OF PILGRIMAGE: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GROUND ZERO

- Jennifer Selby

CHAPTER EIGHT RELIGIOUS TOURISM IN JAPAN: KYÔTO'S GION FESTIVAL

- Michael K. Roemer

CHAPTER NINE JUBILEE 2000: A COMPUTER-ASSISTED ANALYSIS OF THE RELIGION OF JUBILANT PEOPLE

- Roberto Cipriani

CHAPTER TEN THE NEW PILGRIMAGE-RETURN TO TRADITION OR ADAPTATION TO MODERNITY? THE CASE OF SAINT JOSEPH'S ORATORY, MONTRÉAL

- Martin Geoffroy and Jean-Guy Vaillancourt

CHAPTER ELEVEN PLACE AND PILGRIMAGE, REAL AND IMAGINED

- Lutz Kaelber

CHAPTER TWELVE PILGRIMS, SEEKERS AND HISTORY BUFFS: IDENTITY CREATION THROUGH RELIGIOUS TOURISM

- Sarah Bill Schott

CONTRIBUTORS.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-281-39946-9

9786611399467

90-474-0982-5

OCLC:

568279308

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047409823 DOI