Touring Religion, Touring Ritual An Autoethnographic Search Academic Article

abstract

• Although tourism is considered leisure, tours can serve other means for the tour-participant. Tours can prompt memories of the past, and offer a framework for understanding our pasts. This essay uses touring as a metaphor and a mechanism of exploring our pasts to better understand our presence/present. Through autoethnographic methods, this essay examines tourism as ritual and explores rituals as a resource for making sense of painful pasts. Painful memories can pervade individuals minds, altering their perspective and understanding of events, interactions, and relationships. This essay demonstrates how tourism can help people overcoming the memories of sexual assault to find healing.

authors

• Erdely, Jennifer

published proceedings

• DEPARTURES IN CRITICAL QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

author list (cited authors)

• Erdely, J. L.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• Erdely, Jennifer L

publication date

• March 2018

publisher

• University of California Press  Publisher

published in

• n2333-9489ISSN  Journal

keywords

• Autoethnography
• Mormon
• Ritual
• Tourism
• Voodoo

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1525/dcqr.2018.7.1.32

start page

• 32

end page

• 52

volume

• 7

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2018.7.1.32