Spiritual Tourism: Travel and Religious Practice in Western Society

by Norman Alex and Alex Norman

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472514610
• ISBN13: 9781472514615
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"