Religiousness as tourist performances:: a case study of Greek Orthodox pilgrimage

Matina Terzidou; Caroline Scarles; Mark Saunders

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2017.06.009

Religiousness as tourist performances: a case study of Greek Orthodox pilgrimage

Matina Terzidou^*, Caroline Scarles, Mark Saunders

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to decipher ways of experiencing religiousness through tourist performances, intersecting textual approaches with the essential embodiment and materiality of the tourist world. Exploring the diversity of religious tourists’ practices within the Greek Orthodox context, two dimensions underpinning religious tourist experience are highlighted: institutional performances and unconventional performances. Focussing on the embodied experience and drawing upon theories of performance, the paper critiques the interplays of body and place to re-conceptualise current understanding of the pilgrimage/tourism relationship. In doing so, the paper proposes that tourism and religion are not separate entities

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	116-129
Number of pages	14
Journal	Annals of Tourism Research
Volume	66
Early online date	16 Jul 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2017.06.009
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2017

Keywords

Pilgrimage
religious tourism
performance
affect
Greek Orthodox

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Development
Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

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