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    The Search for Identity and Transformative Experience

    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

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  • Religion in Museums

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  • Cultural Heritage Ethics

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    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

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  • The Liquidation of the Church

    by Kees de Groot ...
    Series series Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
    Is religion dying out in Western societies? Is personal spirituality taking its place? Both stories are inadequate. Institutional religion is not simply coming to an end in Western societies. Rather, its assets and properties are redistributed: large parts of the church have gone into liquidation. Religion is crossing the boundaries of the parish and appears in other social contexts. In the fields ... Read more

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  • Religion and Tourism

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