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Religion plays an inevitable part in shaping our day to day lives,
inspires our values, influences our beliefs, and helps us build a
strong foundation of morals and ethics. On the other hand,
traveling also plays a pivotal role in lives as every human being
on this planet has to travel every day for various purposes. The
most appreciated and desired form of traveling is the one which is
done for leisure purposes. Traveling gives a person the opportunity
to explore every corner of the world. The form of travel that
brings both the purity of religion and the peace of traveling is
called "Religious Tourism". Religious tourism is one of the most
prominent and oldest forms of tourism but very little focus is
given on this prolific form of tourism. For years, religious
tourism has played significant role in establishing the
international tourism industry and diminishing the obstacles of
traveling beyond borders. The foundation of this book is derived
from both our personal and professional passion and enthusiasm in
tourism and our own religious backgrounds and religious belief
systems, which guide our everyday lives and enlightens everyone.
Every year millions of people travel to religiously sacred places
not only to perform their religious activities but also to
encounter the serenity of those places. This book focuses on the
evolution of major religions of the world, Religious places all
around the world, Religious practices all around the world and also
deals with topics like atheism, agnostic beliefs and different
kinds of religious practices such as nature religion and new age
religion. In addition to volume, this form of travel is
geographically widespread with most regions of the world being home
to sacred spaces that appeal to religious adherents or other people
who visit sacred spaces out of sheer curiosity. Given this lack of
information compared to other forms of tourism and the fact that
scholars, religious leaders and pilgrimage destination officials
continue to debate the nature of tourism, religion, pilgrimage and
religious tourism, the idea for this book developed. Scholars of
religion and scholars of tourism are brought together in this
volume to examine the social, economic, historical and political
elements of the religion and tourism crossover. The book aims to
create empirically an overview of various world religions and
spiritual movements and their dealings, requirements, practices and
traditions in relation to various forms of travel. Unfortunately,
space and time constraints necessarily limited the range and scope
of faiths that could have been analyzed. The decision to include a
specific belief system was based on availability of information and
expertise. In this approach, efforts were made to include
contributors who are both academic scholars and where possible
adherents of the belief systems under examination. In all but a few
cases, this was a notable success. Our hope is that this volume
will provide first-hand insight into the spiritual and religious
elements of tourism and provide a conceptual foundation for
increased research into this pervasive but understudied global
phenomenon.
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