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  • Religious Tourism and Globalization

    The Search for Identity and Transformative Experience

    by Vitor Ambrósio, Silvia Aulet Serrallonga, Caglar Bideci, Mujde Bideci, Elzbieta Bilska-Wodecka, Dr Dino Bozonelos, Dr Nour Farra-Haddad, Stephen F. Haller, Jaffer Idris, Antonietta Ivona, Isilda Leitão, Dimitrios Mylonopoulos, Polyxeni Moira, Eleanor O’Keeffe, Spyridon Parthenis, Donatella Privitera, Ricardo Nicolas Progano, Alison T. Smith ...
    Series series CABI Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Series
    Is it possible to identify the positive and negative effects of globalization on religious tourism or to estimate the transformation of the internal and external constructs of pilgrimage by these effects? In order to address these questions, this book highlights the importance of the search for identity and transformative experience during religious tourism. It also looks at how, recently, ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Women and Pilgrimage

    by Sharenda Holland Barlar, Maryjane Dunn, Susan Dunn-Hensley, Shirley du Plooy, Vivienne Keely, Sarah E. Owens, Emma Rochester, Lisa F. Signori ...
    Series series CABI Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Series
    Women and Pilgrimage presents scholarly essays that address the lacunae in the literature on this topic. The content includes well-trodden domains of pilgrimage scholarship like sacred sites and holy places. In addition, the book addresses some of the less-well-known dimensions of pilgrimage, such as the performances that take place along pilgrims' paths; the ephemeral nature of identifying as a ... Read more

    $102.29 USD

  • Pilgrimage in Practice

    Narration, Reclamation and Healing

    by Dr Ian S. McIntosh, E. Moore Quinn, Vivienne Keely, Matthew R. Anderson, Shirley du Plooy, Mary Farrelly, Tessa Garton, George D. Greenia0, Aateka Khan1, Richard LeSueur2, Alison T. Smith3, Suzanne van der Beek4 ...
    Series series CABI Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Series
    Pilgrimage in Practice: Narration, Reclamation and Healing provides an interdisciplinary approach to the topic. It reveals many aspects of the practice of pilgrimage, from its nationalistic facets to its effect on economic development; from the impact of the internet to questions of globalization; from pilgrimage as protest to pilgrimage as creative expression in such media as film, art and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Managing Sacralities

    Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage

    Edited by Oscar Salemink, Irene Stengs, Ernst van den Hemel ...
    Series Book 6 - Explorations in Heritage Studies
    What happens when religious sites, objects and practices become cultural heritage? What are —religious or secular—sources of expertise and authority that validate and regulate heritage sites, objects and practices? As cultural heritage becomes an increasingly popular and influential frame, these questions arise in diverse and challenging manners. The question who controls, manages, and frames ... Read more

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  • When God Comes to Town

    Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts

    Edited by Rik Pinxten, Lisa Dikomitis ...
    Series Book 4 - Culture and Politics/Politics and Culture
    Around 1800 roughly three per cent of the human population lived in urban areas; by 2030 this number is expected to have gone up to some seventy per cent. This poses problems for traditional religions that are all rooted in rural, small-scale societies. The authors in this volume question what the possible appeal of these old religions, such as Christianity, Judaism, or Islam could be in the new ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Geography of World Pilgrimages

    Social, Cultural and Territorial Perspectives

    Edited by Lucrezia Lopez ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book points out how pilgrimage studies rely on interdisciplinary academic interests, being always more determined by anthropological, social, cultural and economic factors. The volume gathers interdisciplinary contributions revealing different approaches and academic interests when researching pilgrimage. Finally, the proposal introduces a comparative international breath to reflect upon such ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • The Divine Economy

    How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People

    by Paul Seabright ...
    Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year AwardA novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern worldReligion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America and parts of Europe. Vigorous competition between and within religious movements has led to their ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Stealing My Religion

    Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation

    by Liz Bucar ...
    “Bucar’s sharp insights, shot through with humor and self-awareness, are exactly what we need the next time we reach over to borrow from someone else’s religion for our own therapeutic, political, or educational needs.”—Gene Demby, cohost and correspondent for NPR’s Code Switch“So finely written, so intelligent and fair, and laced with such surprising discoveries that it deserves a reader’s full ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Pilgrimage

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ian Reader ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Pilgrimage is found in most religious cultures, with large numbers of sites - from globally renowned places to regional shrines - flourishing historically and in the modern day. Pilgrimage centres around the world, including Mecca in Saudi Arabia, Guadalupe in Mexico, Lourdes in France, Santiago de Compostela in Spain, Haridwar in India, and Shikoku in Japan, attract millions of pilgrims annually, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Religion in Museums

    Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Gretchen Buggeln, Crispin Paine, S. Brent Plate ...
    Bringing together scholars and practitioners from North America, Europe, Russia, and Australia, this pioneering volume provides a global survey of how museums address religion and charts a course for future research and interpretation. Contributors from a variety of disciplines and institutions explore the work of museums from many perspectives, including cultural studies, religious studies, and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Cultural Heritage Ethics

    Between Theory and Practice

    by Constantine Sandis ...
    Theory without practice is empty, practice without theory is blind, to adapt a phrase from Immanuel Kant. The sentiment could not be truer of cultural heritage ethics. This intra-disciplinary book bridges the gap between theory and practice by bringing together a stellar cast of academics, activists, consultants, journalists, lawyers, and museum practitioners, each contributing their own expertise ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Theatre

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Marvin Carlson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From before history was recorded to the present day, theatre has been a major artistic form around the world. From puppetry to mimes and street theatre, this complex art has utilized all other art forms such as dance, literature, music, painting, sculpture, and architecture. Every aspect of human activity and human culture can be, and has been, incorporated into the creation of theatre. In this ... Read more

    $7.99 USD