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Buddhist tourism in Asia /
"This innovative collaborative work-the first to focus on Buddhist tourism-explores how Buddhists, government organizations, business corporations, and individuals in Asia participate in re-imaginings of Buddhism through tourism. Contributors from religious studies, anthropology, and art histor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Contemporary Buddhism.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Theoretical landscapes of Buddhist tourism in Asia / Courtney Bruntz, Brooke Schedneck
- PART 1. Buddhist Imaginaries and Place-Making.
- Peace and the Buddhist imaginary in Bodh Gaya, India / David Geary
- Imaginaries of Buddhist fantasy worlds in Southeast Asia : the decline of Tiger Balm Gardens of Singapore in comparative perspective / John N. Miksic
- Loss and promise : the Buddhist temple as tourist space in Thailand / Brooke Schedneck
- Marketing Maitreya : two peaks, three forms of capital, and the quest to establish a fifth Buddhist mountain / Justin R. Ritzinger
- PART 2. Secularizing the Sacred
- Cambodian pilgrimage groups in India and Sri Lanka / John A. Marston
- Buddhists, bones, and bats : thematic tourism and the symbolic economy of Phnom Sampeau, Cambodia / Matthew J. Trew
- Taking tourism into their own hands : monastic communities and temple transformations in China / Courtney Bruntz
- Turning to tourism in a time of crisis? : Buddhist temples and pilgrimage promotion in secular(ized) Japan / Ian Reader
- PART 3. Commodification and Its Consequences
- Interrogating religious tourism at Buddhist monasteries in China / Brian J. Nichols
- How I meditated with your mother : speed dating at temples and shrines in contemporary Japan / Matthew Mitchell
- Buddhism : a unique selling proposition (USP) in Ladakh / Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg.