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Journeys of Expressions V
Tourism and the Roots/Routes of Religious Festivity
Belfast, Northern-Ireland, 13-15 March 2006
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
www.tourism-culture.com
This is the first call for papers for JOURNEYS OF
EXPRESSIONS V: TOURISM AND THE ROOTS/ROUTES OF
RELIGIOUS FESTIVITY which will take place in Belfast,
Northern Ireland, from 13th to 15th March 2006.
Regularly updated information can be found at our
website www.tourism-culture.com.
In this, the fifth of our continuing conference series
exploring the multi-faceted relationships between
tourism and festivals, Journeys of Expression aims to
discuss touristic practices in relation to forms of
traditional and contemporary religious festivity. The
conference seeks to examine the meanings and roots of
religious festivity within the context of tourism and
related studies, the ways by which tourists arrive at,
and consume religious festivity, and the ways in which
touristic practice encounters, and in some instances
shapes, the religious.
In a world apparently struggling with the boundaries
of 'the religious', we are interested in the social
practice of tourism, as a spatial displacement of the
human body creating, a priori, a liminal space for
mental and physical recreation. Situating this
approach within the field of tourism, we hope, permits
to analyse important shifts and transformations of
traditional liturgical practices, manifested in
particular by the veneration of new, now touristic
forms of 'sacred' objects, spaces and elements
('nature', 'culture', 'art', 'sun', 'water', etc.).
Within the contemporary transnationalised world how do
we make sense of the religious - its symbolic
expression, its politicisation etc. - through both
festivity and tourism? How do festivals mobilise
religious symbols to tell stories and make visible
particular representations of the self? What are the
festive roles attributed to, or taken by tourists and
how are these integrated with forms of festive
exchange and ritual? And, how can a better
understanding of tourism-festival relationships shape
agendas for 'intercultural dialogue' and peace as
articulated by international organisations such as
UNESCO.
Indicative themes of the conference include:
- Defining Religious Festivity: Genesis, Genealogy
and Displacement
- Tourism, Pilgrimage and Travel Liturgies: Variations
and Continuity of the 'Sacred Journey' in the
Contemporary World
- Tourism and Transnational Festival Spaces: Festive
Ostentation, Sacrifice, Transgression and Exchange in
the Contemporary World
- Festive Economics / Politics of Making Visible:
Religious Symbols, Discourse and the Formulation of
Social Spaces / Boundaries in the Contemporary World
- Material Diasporas: Tourism Souvenirs and Meanings
- Tourism, Intersubjective Encounters and Power
Relations in Religious Festivals
- The Continuity / End of War and Conflict: From
Paradigms of Clash to Paradigms of Peace?
The conference is designed to be a discussion led,
small scale event hosting approximately 50-70
international delegates. In the tradition of the
Journeys of Expression series, we wish to animate an
interdisciplinary debate on the suggested themes and
welcome paper proposals from academics from various
disciplinary backgrounds including: tourism studies,
anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography,
religious studies, theology, philosophy, performance
studies, cultural economics, politics, etc. If you
wish to submit a paper proposal, please send a
300-word abstract with full address and institutional
affiliation details as an electronic file to Dr. David
Picard ([log in to unmask] ). The deadline for the
reception of abstracts is 10th January 2006. Please
find regularly updated information regarding this
conference, registration procedures and (at a later
stage) a programme at our website
www.tourism-culture.com.
Dr David Picard
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
Owen Building, Howard Street
Sheffield S1 1WB
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0) 114 225 3973
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Web: www.tourism-culture.com
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