{"title":"Bible and religious tourism: some cultural proposals.","authors":"J. Ferrer","doi":"10.1079/9781789241129.0069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781789241129.0069","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract\u0000 This chapter intends to contribute ideas for incorporating the Bible into the religious and cultural world of tourism. It proposes a unique dialogue between some aspects of the great narration that the Bible represents and various artefacts of the world's cultural history. The latter are found in museums and libraries everywhere and are proposed here as a theme for culture and tourism precisely because of their value in relation to the reading and interpretation of the Bible.","PeriodicalId":383685,"journal":{"name":"Tourism, pilgrimage and intercultural dialogue : interpreting sacred stories","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134287608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Updating a romantic view? Ruskin's Mornings in Florence.","authors":"N. Crous-Costa","doi":"10.1079/9781789241129.0174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781789241129.0174","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract\u0000 This chapter focuses on John Ruskin's guidebook Mornings in Florence (1877). The goal of the chapter is to discuss the feasibility of Ruskin's itinerary in this guidebook today. This exploration not only considers the existence of the sights referred to, most of which are still prominent tourist landmarks today, but additionally the chapter reflects on the interest of using this understanding of the city again from the perspective of different stakeholders.","PeriodicalId":383685,"journal":{"name":"Tourism, pilgrimage and intercultural dialogue : interpreting sacred stories","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117172736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does a religious tourist need a guide? Interpretation and storytelling in sacred places.","authors":"T. Duda","doi":"10.1079/9781789241129.0105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781789241129.0105","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract\u0000 This chapter presents contemporary trends in religious tourism and the role that pilgrimage plays in shaping the knowledge and attitudes related to the religious and spiritual heritage of the region. Based on surveys and direct interviews in the Pomerania region (north-west Poland and north-east Germany), the role of a tourist guide was determined to be an 'interpreter of places and routes, responsible for the provision of an adequate storytelling process'. The chapter also attempts to answer some key questions that trouble contemporary researchers studying the problem of interpretation in tourism, associated with the phenomenon of pilgrimage and/or religious tourism.","PeriodicalId":383685,"journal":{"name":"Tourism, pilgrimage and intercultural dialogue : interpreting sacred stories","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132434805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Llull, a traveller in the service of the Faith.","authors":"G. Ensenyat","doi":"10.1079/9781789241129.0130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781789241129.0130","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract\u0000 This chapter looks at the travels and pilgrimages of Ramon Llull during the Middle Ages. It is shown that Llull's travels had a specific motivation: to contribute to apologetic action. Within Christendom, the object was to convince the civil and religious powers to support his evangelizing projects. Within Islam, Llull carried out his missionary project through dialogue with the motive of converting Muslims to Christianity.","PeriodicalId":383685,"journal":{"name":"Tourism, pilgrimage and intercultural dialogue : interpreting sacred stories","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129218356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pilgrimage tourism and social media: A way forward in the 21st century?","authors":"E. Paschinger","doi":"10.1079/9781789241129.0115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781789241129.0115","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract\u0000 This chapter reveals a shift in the demand characteristics for religious/pilgrimage tourism with the advent of the \"experience economy\" and the proliferation of social media. The management implications of the advent of social media for religious/pilgrimage tourism are also discussed, including the use of social media marketing in the context of pilgrimage tourism development. A case study is presented of the 'Peregrino Lebaniego Digital', a project that digitalizes a part of the Way of Saint James.","PeriodicalId":383685,"journal":{"name":"Tourism, pilgrimage and intercultural dialogue : interpreting sacred stories","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115554238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religious tourism, pilgrimage: manifestation of peace and enlightenment in contemporary religions with special reference to Islam.","authors":"T. Elhadary","doi":"10.1079/9781789241129.0096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781789241129.0096","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract\u0000 This chapter claims that religious tourism or pilgrimage not only has the common advantages of tourism in general but also leads to enlightenment and peace. Focusing on the annual Islamic pilgrimage of the Hajj, the chapter explores the impact of pilgrimage on people's lives in general and Muslim lives in particular.","PeriodicalId":383685,"journal":{"name":"Tourism, pilgrimage and intercultural dialogue : interpreting sacred stories","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122176496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Taking part in a pilgrimage by hosting pilgrims.","authors":"V. Ambrósio","doi":"10.1079/9781789241129.0141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781789241129.0141","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract\u0000 This chapter's focus is on accommodation provided by local people without charge or for a small amount of money and how it contributes to the strengthening of the pilgrimage spirit and success. Examining three pilgrimages in Portugal, the research supports the idea that the locals who host pilgrims believe that they live the pilgrimage without walking the road and each one of them feels that they are taking part in the pilgrimage. On the other side, pilgrims feel that they are spreading the pilgrimage spirit along the way mainly when they have personal contact with locals and spend the night in their houses or in the lodgings they provide.","PeriodicalId":383685,"journal":{"name":"Tourism, pilgrimage and intercultural dialogue : interpreting sacred stories","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126116671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The symbolism of the built temple.","authors":"D. Vidal-Casellas","doi":"10.1079/9781789241129.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781789241129.0043","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract\u0000 This chapter aims to deconstruct religious architecture into fundamental elements, shapes, numbers and basic relations. First, it reflects on the relation between the temple as a built space and the value of the holy. The holy is an absolute element, intangible, but which in some way manifests itself to be perceived by the human being. The chapter then examines the process by which a temple is built, above all focusing on how the choice of location responds to a number of questions that are more symbolic than casuistic. Finally, it examines a number of aspects related to the symbolism of the temple and the meaning or meanings that can be attributed to the different elements and built parts of temples, above all Christian ones, but also relating them to those characteristics shared with other religious traditions.","PeriodicalId":383685,"journal":{"name":"Tourism, pilgrimage and intercultural dialogue : interpreting sacred stories","volume":"694 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123827387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The symbolism of sacred space.","authors":"D. Olsen","doi":"10.1079/9781789241129.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781789241129.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract\u0000 This chapter discusses the development and maintenance of sacred spaces and places as defined by institutionalized religion, and how these spaces and places are contested yet also a meeting ground for cross-cultural understanding. The chapter begins by briefly summarizing some of the academic shifts that have taken place over the past few decades regarding the study of sacred space. It then turns to discuss the production and contestation of sacred space with an emphasis on sacred spaces as 'places in motion', before examining how sacred spaces are being used by religious groups for outreach and to promote cross-cultural understanding.","PeriodicalId":383685,"journal":{"name":"Tourism, pilgrimage and intercultural dialogue : interpreting sacred stories","volume":"147 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131748403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transformation of cultural identity, tourism and intercultural dialogue: medieval world heritage sites in Serbia between cultural monuments and shrines.","authors":"T. Ognjević","doi":"10.1079/9781789241129.0121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781789241129.0121","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract\u0000 This chapter deals with the challenges of church heritage in Serbia with a special focus on the monastery complexes under UNESCO protection in Studenica, Sopoćani and Stari Ras, and in the light of Orthodox monastic communities' lifestyles and their relationship with tourism. At the same time, based on the Artis Center experience within a cultural and creative tourism project, this chapter seeks to highlight the possible models of interpretation of sacred places through the prism of so-called female history, or personal history of Serbian medieval rulers' wives and daughters, who are generally foreigners, but as well-respected saints of Serbian Orthodox churches, create exceptional potential for intercultural dialogue.","PeriodicalId":383685,"journal":{"name":"Tourism, pilgrimage and intercultural dialogue : interpreting sacred stories","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117075065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}