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.
Author(s): William H. Swatos Jr.
Series: Religion and the Social Order
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 350
Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Preface: Half and Half......Page 9
1. For Charles and For England: Pilgrimage Without
Tourism......Page 19
2. Journeys to the Goddess: Pilgrimage and Tourism
in the New Age......Page 51
3. The View from the Edge: Pilgrimage and
Transformation......Page 79
4. Labyrinth as Heterotopia: The Pilgrim’s Creation
of Space......Page 101
5. Spiritual Tourism: Brazilian Faith Healing Goes
Global......Page 123
6. Desert Pilgrimage: Liminality, Transformation, and the
Other at the Burning Man Festival......Page 143
7. The Politics of Pilgrimage: The Social Construction of
Ground Zero......Page 177
8. Religious Tourism in Japan: Kyôto’s Gion Festival......Page 205
9. Jubilee 2000: A Computer-Assisted Analysis of the
Religion of Jubilant People......Page 237
10. The New Pilgrimage—Return to Tradition or
Adaptation to Modernity? The Case of Saint Joseph’s
Oratory, Montréal......Page 273
11. Place and Pilgrimage, Real and Imagined......Page 295
12. Pilgrims, Seekers and History Buffs: Identity Creation
through Religious Tourism......Page 315
Contributors......Page 347
