Military Pilgrimage and Battlefield Tourism is the first volume to bring together a detailed analysis of professional military pilgrimage with other forms of commemorating military conflict. The volume looks beyond the discussion of battlefield tourism undertaken primarily by civilians which has dominated research until now through an analysis of the relationship between religious, military and civilian participants. Drawing on a comparative approach towards what has mostly been categorised as secular pilgrimage, dark tourism/thanatourism, military and religious tourism, and re-enactment, the contributors explore the varied ways in which memory, material culture and rituals are performed at particular places. The volume also engages with the debate about the extent to which western definitions of pilgrimage and tourism, as well as such related terms as religion, sacred and secular, can be applied in non-western contexts.
| ISBN: | 9781472483621 |
| Publication date: | 5th October 2017 |
| Author: | John Eade |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 176 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism |
| Genres: |
Religion: general Society and culture: general Medical sociology Sports Anthropology Armed conflict Sociology: death and dying Retail and wholesale industries |