Religion and Tourism in Japan
Reader, Ian![Religion and Tourism in Japan](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/440/44033153/CHSBZCOP0344033153.jpg)
This book argues that the relationship between religion and tourism in Japan provides an example of secularization, counteracting scholarship that claims tourism increases religious activity.
Although the Japanese constitution prohibits the state from promoting religion, the book shows how state agencies nonetheless encourage people to visit religious sites, by presenting them as manifestations of a shared heritage redolent of a real yet vani...