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Journeys and Destinations: Studies in Travel, Identity, and Meaning Unabridged edition
Author(s): Alex Norman
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: July 25, 2013
- Edition: Unabridged edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 310 pages
- ISBN-10: 1443847534
- ISBN-13: 9781443847537
Book Description
Journeys and Destinations: Studies in Travel, Identity, and Meaning brings together scholarship from diverse fields all focused on either practices of journeying, or destinations to which such journeys lead. Common across the contributions herein are threads that indicate travel as a core component — as a concept or a practice — of the fabric of identity and meaning.
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About the Author
Alex Norman is a Lecturer in the Department of Studies in Religion, University of Sydney. His book Spiritual Tourism (Continuum 2011) examines the intersection of travel and secular spiritual practice by contemporary Westerners. He is co-editor (with Carole M. Cusack) of the Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production (Brill 2012). His research interests include tourism and religion, new religious movements, food, photography, and the practice of secular spirituality in the everyday. He hopes to make travel a more thoroughly examined subject in the study of religion.
