Belfast 13-15 March 2006

This conference, by bringing together academics interested in various forms of contemporary pilgrimage, travel and ritual, is aiming to test the conceptual limitations of the religious and to relocate this concept in contemporary forms of social practice. 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.
For more information please visit www.tourism-culture.com or contact Daniela Carl at d.carl@shu.ac.uk