Congratulations! Dr Jaeyeon Choe in Faculty of Management, with Dr Michael Di Giovine (Associate Professor of Anthropology, West Chester University, USA) released a special issue, ‘Geographies of Religion and Spirituality: Pilgrimage Beyond the ‘Officially’ Sacred’ online in Tourism Geographies! Emerging from their panel session at Royal Geographical Society Conference in 2016, the papers represent a strong interdisciplinary focus, derived from diverse geographical locations. See below:
Tourism Geographies, Volume 21, Issue 3, July 2019 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
Geographies of Religion and Spirituality: Pilgrimage Beyond the “Officially” Sacred
Guest Editors: Dr. Jaeyeon Choe and Dr. Michael A. Di Giovine
Introduction
Geographies of religion and spirituality: pilgrimage beyond the ‘officially’ sacred
Michael A. Di Giovine & Jaeyeon Choe
Pages: 361-383 | DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2019.1625072
Articles
From the liminal to the lateral: urban religion in English cathedrals
Simon Coleman
Pages: 384-404 | DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2018.1449236
Meaning-making in the course of action: affordance theory at the pilgrim/tourist nexus
Joy W. Ackerman
Pages: 405-421 | DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2018.1505942
Pilgrim routes as contested spaces in Norway
Hogne Øian
Pages: 422-441 | DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2018.1522511
Tourism and sacred landscape in Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) National Park, Nepal
Yang Mu, Sanjay K. Nepal & Po-Hsin Lai
Pages: 442-459 | DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2018.1558454
Cultural tourism between local and transnational identities: Jewish heritage in Syracuse, Italy
Andrea Corsale & Shaul Krakover
Pages: 460-481 | DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2018.1497083
Wak’a/shrine making and pilgrimage tourism in Copacabana, Bolivia
Jessica Joyce Christie
Pages: 482-507 | DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2019.1600005
Reframing and Reconceptualising Gambling tourism in Macau as a Chinese Pilgrimage
Michael O’Regan, Jaeyeon Choe & Michael Di Giovine
Pages: 508-528 | DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2018.1545248
Hierarchical value map of religious tourists visiting the Vatican City/Rome
Bona Kim & Seongseop (Sam) Kim
Pages: 529-550 | DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2018.1449237
To read the editorial, see the following link:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2019.1625072
Geographies of Religion and Spirituality at Royal Geographical Society conference, London 2016










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