Mobile Lifeworlds - An Ethnography of Tourism and Pilgrimage in the Himalayas (Hardcover)

Mobile Lifeworlds illustrates how the imaginaries and ideals of Western travellers, especially those of untouched nature and spiritual enlightenment, are consistent with media representations of the Himalayan region, romanticism and modernity at large. Blending tourism and pilgrimage, travel across Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, and Northern India is often inspired and oriented by a search for authenticity, adventure and Otherness. Such valued ideals are shown, however, to be contested by the very forces and configurations that enable global mobility. The role ubiquitous media and mobile technologies now play in framing travel experiences are explored, revealing a situation in which actors are neither here nor there, but increasingly are 'inter-placed' across planetary landscapes. Beyond institutionalised religious contexts and the visiting of sacred sites, the author shows how a secular religiosity manifests in practical, bodily encounters with foreign environments. This book is unique in that it draws on a dynamic and innovative set of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, especially phenomenology, the mobilities paradigm and philosophical anthropology. The volume breaks fresh ground in pilgrimage, tourism and travel studies by unfolding the complex relationships between the virtual, imaginary and corporeal dynamics of contemporary mobile lifeworlds.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism
Release date:	August 2016
First published:	2017
Authors:	Christopher A. Howard
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	196
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-65621-5
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Service industries > Tourism industry Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Worship > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Worship > General Promotions
LSN:	1-138-65621-6
Barcode:	9781138656215

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