Local Identities and Transnational Cults within Europe
Fiorella Giacalone · Kevin Griffin
May 2018 · CABI
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Local-level pilgrimages, when based on strong expressions of faith, can have a much wider local, regional and international appeal. It has been estimated that pilgrims and religious tourists number around 330 million per year, meaning development of these faith identities can help drive destination visitation and regional development. This book explores the central role of ordinary people in the popularisation of faith-based practices, thus illustrating religious tourism as an expression of cultural identity. An invaluable review of cultural identity and faith, this book delivers to scholars, students and local policy makers a collection of current perspectives on the growth, development and evolution of faith practices surrounding contemporary and historical sites and saints.
About the author
Fiorella Giacalone is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Political Science, University of Perugia (Italy). She is President of the degree Course in Social Work and the degree Course of Social Policy. She is a member of two International Associations of Anthropologists (FER Eurethno du Conseil de l'Europe and EASA, European Ass. Social Anthropology). She has taught at the universities of Florianopolis (Brazil), Valladolid (Spain), Paris, and Marrakech (Morocco). She is interested in the holy feminine, the bodily symbols in Catholicism and Islam, and the forms of construction and definition of the female body in the monotheistic religions. She is concerned also with the relation between medical anthropology and social services for immigrants. Recently, she has studied the daily life of young Muslim immigrants in secular Western culture. She has published 7 books and 70 essays in books and Italian and foreign scientific reviews.
Dr. Kevin Griffin, MA, PhD. Having studied teaching then tourism organization and historic settlement, I worked in a number of Geography Departments in the Dublin / Kildare area. Since 2001 I have worked at the DIT where I am actively involved in teaching and researching a broad range of tourism topics with particular specialism in both heritage and sustainable tourism. Editor in Chief, International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, International Journal of Tour Guiding Research, and International Journal of Islands Research. Series Editor, CABI Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Book Series. My main areas of academic interest include: Tourism and Sustainability / Environmental Issues, Heritage Tourism, Religious Tourism / Pilgrimage, Social Tourism, Teaching Methodologies and Tourism Local History / Heritage.
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