Religious Pilgrimage Routes And Trails

Pilgrimage trails and routes : journeys from the past to the present / Daniel H. Olsen, Anna Trono, and Paul R. Fidgeon -- Religious pilgrimage routes and trails as driving forces for sustainable local development / Anna Trono and Valentina Castronovo -- Cultural routes : tourist destinations and tools for development / Dallen J. Timothy -- The role of heritage tourism in the management and promotion of pilgrimage trails and routes / Stephen W. Boyd -- Environment and sustainability as related to religious pilgrimage routes and trails / Gabriella Trombino and Anna Trono -- The European Cultural Route of Saint Martin of Tours / Raffaella Afferni and Carla Ferrario -- The Camino de Santiago de Compostela : the most important historic pilgrimage way in Europe / Rubén C. Lois-González, Xosé M. Santos, Pilar Taboada-de-Zúñiga Romero -- The Holy Grail route : mystic routes and activities to improve local tourism / Paul R. Fidgeon -- Religious pilgrimage routes in the Baltic countries : history and perspectives / Darius Liutikas -- Pilgrimage trails in Malta / Vincent Zammit -- Pilgrimage routes from Central Europe and Scandinavia towards Jerusalem and Santiago de Compostela / Tomasz Duda -- The ways to Jerusalem : maritime cultural and pilgrimage routes / Anna Trono and Marco Leo Imperiale -- Palkhi, a moving town / Kiran A. Shinde -- Kashi and Cosmos, India : the pilgrimage circuit of the Panchakroshi Yatra / Rana P.B. Singh and Pravin S. Rana -- Pilgrimage to Mount Bromo, India / Jaeyeon Choe and Michael Hitchcock -- The Shikoku pilgrimage : popularity and the pilgrim's transaction / Greg Wilkinson -- Challenges facing the sustainable development of slave trade routes and trails in Cameroon / Vreny Enongene and Kevin Griffin -- The Talpa de Allende pilgrimage trail / Daniel H. Olsen and Rodrigo Espinoza Sanchez -- Pilgrimage and identity along the Mormon Trail / Daniel H. Olsen and Brian J. Hill -- Pilgrimage trails and routes : journeys from the present to the future / Anna Trono and Daniel H. Olsen

"Since the dawn of humanity, people have traveled in search of meaning and to petition for worldly and otherworldly blessings. In the twenty-first century, the number of people traveling to religious sacred sites on pilgrimage, for example, has increased more than at any point in human history. An increased demand for pilgrimage routes and trails with the spiritual rather than the religious walker in mind, has also led various enterprising groups and individuals to develop entirely new pilgrimage routes and trails. This book highlights this new chapter in pilgrimage and trail development with essays by pilgrimage scholars and practitioners of pilgrimage and faith-based tourism working in over ten countries. These include an examination of circular pilgrimage in The Netherlands, weird or 'anti-pilgrimages' in the UK, and the revitalization of ancient trails along the Old Way to Canterbury, in the Baltic States, and on the Kumano Kodo in Japan. Entirely new trails include the Sufi Trail in Turkey, the Western Front Way in Europe, the Abraham Path in Southwest Asia, the Mormon Canadian Trail, and various new religious-themed trails in Lebanon. Human rights focused pilgrimages include one focused on peace building in Indigenous Australia, Indigenous settler pilg505rimage protocols in Canada, and an emancipation pilgrimage along the Underground Railroad in the United States"--

For millennia people have travelled to religious sites for worship, initiatory and leisure purposes. Today there are hundreds, if not thousands, of religious pilgrimage routes and trails around the world that are used by pilgrims as well as tourists. Indeed, many religious pilgrimage routes and trails are today used as themes by tourism marketers in an effort to promote regional economic development. An important resource for those interested in religious tourism and pilgrimage, this book is also an invaluable collection for academics and policy-makers within heritage tourism and regional development.

Traveling two and a half months and one thousand miles along the ancient route through southern France and northern Spain, Conrad Rudolph made the passage to the holy site of Santiago de Compostela, one of the most important modern-day pilgrimage destinations for Westerners. In this chronicle of his travels to this captivating place, Rudolph melds the ancient and the contemporary, the spiritual and the physical, in a book that is at once travel guide, literary work, historical study, and memoir.

Tourism Routes and Trails plunges into the world of 'extended' tourism, offering an exploration of the 'routes' phenomenon whereby tourism is no longer for a given destination, but extends over multiple sites, a territory or landscape. Covering how such routes are created, often as ways of clustering experiences, it also reviews their effects on tourism businesses, local populations and other stakeholders.

The road across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela in the northwest was one of the three major Christian pilgrimage routes during the Middle Ages, leading pilgrims to the resting place of the Apostle St. James. Today, the system of trails and roads that made up the old pilgrimage route is the most popular long-distance trail in Europe, winding from the heights of the Pyrenees to the gently rolling fields and woods of Galicia. Hundreds of thousands of modern-day pilgrims, art lovers, historians, and adventurers retrace the road today, traveling through a stunningly varied landscape which contains some of the most extraordinary art and architecture in the western world. For any visitor, the Road to Santiago is a treasure trove of historical sites, rustic Spanish villages, churches and cathedrals, and religious art. To fully appreciate the riches of this unique route, look no further than The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago, a fascinating step-by-step guide to the cultural history of the Road for pilgrims, hikers, and armchair travelers alike. Organized geographically, the book covers aspects of the terrain, places of interest, history, artistic monuments, and each town and village's historical relationship to the pilgrimage. The authors have led five student treks along the Road, studying the art, architecture, and cultural sites of the pilgrimage road from southern France to Compostela. Their lectures, based on twenty-five years of pilgrimage scholarship and fieldwork, were the starting point for this handbook.

Pilgrimage is a spiritual discipline not many consider. In these pages Arthur Paul Boers describes his month-long journey on the Camino de Santiago in Spain, a classic pilgrimage route that ends at the cathedral where St. James is buried, opening to us his incredible story of renewed spirituality springing from an old, old path walked by millions before.

Incisive and interdisciplinary, this Research Agenda broaches topics that have been under-researched within religious tourism, including: place attachment and marketing; memory and modification of sacred landscapes for tourism needs; the darker sides of religious tourism; multi-stakeholder governance; mission-trips; and allied forms of tourism.