Dimentions of Contemporary Postmodern Pilgrimage as Glocal Religious Cultural Heritage

Liana Galabova, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria
2020 Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Representation, Digitalization  
Contemporary practices of recreational and confessional travel and visit of sacred sites of various denominations focus multitude of orientations and attitudes regarding religious cultural heritage. Postmodern tourist experience of organisation and research encompasses wide space from local to global, from material to invisible, form forgotten to live heritage, and from sustainable to dynamic, from subjective to generally valid, acknowledged, and human in religious culture and everyday life.
more » ... nsmission of traditional values and rituals, as well as actualisation of cultural practices basic for religions, confessions,and communities would be impossible without sacral topoi as a focus of tourist interests, flow of people and dynamic site exploitation, and without development of the reflection on those processes. Keywords: pilgrimage, religious tourism, glocal mobility, postmodernity, sacred sites, heritage perception, tourist reflections, accessibility of tourist sites
doi:10.26615/issn.2367-8038.2020_1_007 fatcat:bk3ehfmwkfg5ldnzgkqoi2nzou