Mediated Touring of Sacred Sites
Pilgrims, Shrines, and the Media
Mediated Touring of Sacred Sites
Pilgrims, Shrines, and the Media
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Description
Global media and religion scholars come together to provide overdue scholarly investigations of the myriad interactions of media and tourism at religious sites.
Hundreds of millions of people flock to sacred sites around the globe every year, and scholarly research is only beginning to appreciate how media plays a role in these tourists' experiences. Exploring mass media's depictions of sacred sites, sacred sites' use of media to attract and guide tourists, and tourists' creation of media during their visits, contributors from more than 13 countries present case studies spanning religious traditions, types of tourism, and traditional and digital media.
Chapters examine cases surrounding:
-sacred sites' self-produced websites and other media
-pilgrims' social media posts about experiences at religious sites
-effects of media coverage upon the image and perceived legitimacy of sacred places
-media uses in guiding visitor experiences of religious sites
-media-generated interest in religious sites
-the projection of religious sites through media channels
-religious authority of sites challenged by media content
-new media as political tool in sites holy to more than one faith
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Table of Contents
Yoel Cohen, Ariel University, Israel, Chiung Hwang Chen, Brigham Young University-Hawaii, USA, and Ethan Yorgason, Kyungpook National University, South Korea
1. From Oral Shrine to Circulated Shrine: Media, Sacred Voice, and Religious Authority in the Western Himalaya
Harul Vinay and Aditya Prakash, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, India
2. Shrines, Media, and Tourism in the Digital Age: Lessons Learned and Emerging Paths
Lorenzo Cantoni, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland, Marc-Marie Mutangala, Université Don Bosco de Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Matteo Lorandi, The Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy, and Silvia de Ascaniis, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
Part I: Content Generated by Media About Sacred Places and Travels
3. Mediatized Pilgrimage and Public Religion: Citizenship, Belonging, and Transcendence at the Basilica of Guadalupe (2020–2025)
Everardo Aréchiga-García, The University of Monterrey, Mexico
4. From Museum to Mosque: Media and the Politics of Space in the Case of Hagia Sophia
Gülsah Görücü, University of the Aegean, Greece
5. Media Representation, Mediatization, and Identity Construction at Hungarian Pilgrimage Sites
Mónika Andok, András Radetzky, and Dóra P. Szilczl, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
6. God in the Newspapers: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Letters to the Editor on Odisha's Sacred Shrines
Susanta Pal and Bidu Bhusan Dash, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, India
Part II: Content Generated and Media Technologies Used by Religious Sites/Organizations: Public and Media Relations by Shrine Administrators
7. Evangelizing Through Tourism: Use of Media at Salt Lake City's Temple Square
Chiung Hwang Chen, Brigham Young University-Hawaii, USA
8. Sacred Places and Mediated Religious Tourism in Zimbabwe: The Flamboyant Venues of Three Pentecostal Prophets
Priscilla Boshoff, Rhodes University, South Africa and Joseph Muyangata, Light of the World Bible College, USA
9. The Jewish-Muslim Media and Public Relations War over Jerusalem's Temple Mount
Yoel Cohen, Ariel University, Israel
10. Reanimating the Sacred at a Distance: AI, Motion Capture, and Immersive Mediation in the Digital Reconstruction of Dunhuang (The CAMLab Case)
Vincenzo De Masi, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China, Yuhan Song, Independent Researcher, China, and Ernestina Xinyi Zhu, University of Manchester, UK
Part III: Tourist Gaze: Content Generated by Tourists
11. Pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago in the Media Age: The Smartphone in the Pilgrim Experience
Marco Túlio de Sousa, The Adventist University Center of São Paulo, Brazil
12. Framing the Battleground: Pilgrimage, Spiritual Warfare and Social Media in Guatemala's Cerro Quemado
Gustavo Fuchs, University of Texas at Austin, USA
13. Instagram's Social Construction of Haeinsa Temple: Nature and Sacred-site Tourism in South Korea
Ethan Yorgason, Kyungpook National University, Korea
14. Digital Phantasmagoria: Instagram's Reconfiguration of Sacred Space in Kyushu
Baris Çoban, and Charlène Clonts, Kyushu University, Japan
Part IV: The Intersections Between Media and Sacred Places
15. Projecting Sanctity: The Role of Media in Shaping Perceptions of Pilgrimage Sites
Mahdi Yousefi, Hainan Normal University, China
16. Mediating Sacred Defense: Media, Legitimacy, and the Sayyida Zaynab Shrine in the Syrian Civil War
Shahriar Khonsari, Independent Researcher, Iran
17. Sacred Ecology in Media Narratives: A Multi-Platform Analysis of the Maha Kumbh Mela 2025, Prayagraj, India
Krishna Sankar Kusuma, A. J. K. Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, India, Shivangi Asthana, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, Manjushree Naik, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India, and Pragati Paul, A. J. K. Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islania, India
Conclusion
Yoel Cohen, Ariel University, Israel, Chiung Hwang Chen, Brigham Young University-Hawaii, USA, and Ethan Yorgason, Kyungpook National University, Korea
Index
About the Volume Editors
About the Contributors
Product details
| Published | 01 Apr 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 9798216452836 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 16 b/w illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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