Spiritual Tourism(English, Electronic book text, Norman Alex Dr)

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Spiritual Tourism(English, Electronic book text, Norman Alex Dr) is written by Norman Alex Dr and published by Continuum Publishing Corporation. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1441123083 (ISBN 10) and 9781441123084 (ISBN 13).

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.