Pilgrimage and Tourism to Holy Cities
Leppakari, Dr Maria (Adjunct Professor, Swedish Theological Institute in Jerusalem & Abo Akademi University, Finland) / Griffin, Kevin (Technological University Dublin, Ireland)
This book covers the ideological motives and religious perceptions behind travel to sites prescribed with sanctity in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It covers sites that have drawn pilgrims and religious tourists to them for hundreds of years, and seeks to provide an understanding of the complex world of religiously motivated travel. Beginning with contemporary perspectives of pilgrimage across these religions, it then discusses management a...