Of Temples and Trees: The Black Dragon King and the Arbortourists
The intersection of tourism and religion as two more or less coherent systems of political-economic and symbolic-conceptual productions is premised on a crucial conceptual and physical domain, i.e. the sites themselves that are being visited by the tourists and pilgrims. What unites tourists, pilgri...
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Dublin Institute of Technology
[2018]
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The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
Year: 2018, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 72-84 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
China
/ Folk religion
/ Heilongdawang Temple
/ Spiritual tourism
/ Arboretum
/ Tree cult
/ Environmentalist
/ Secularism
/ Tourism
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RelBib Classification: | AF Geography of religion AG Religious life; material religion BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism KBM Asia NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics ZB Sociology |
Further subjects: | B
Environmentalism
B tree planting B popular religion; arboretum B arbortourism |
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