Behind The Rise Of Religious Tourism In India

In the words of Simon Coleman and John Eade, who co-edited Pilgrimage and Political Economy, pilgrimage is not only a source of popular religious activity, but also subject to varied forms of control by national churches, denominations, social movements, commercial enterprises, regional and national governments, andtransnational organisations such as UNESCO. As Alokparna Das writes in a 2016 essay in the International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, since the political relevance of religion in our contemporary world cannot be disputed, particularly in the context of a…