Hindu Religious Devotion in Media as Contemporary Folklore: Prospects for Religious Tourism in India
Keywords:
Folkloristics, Tourism, India, Cultural Tourism, Religion,Abstract
The matter of pilgrimage is a surprisingly ubiquitous one and it is quite likely that the reader will reflect wryly that his/her faith, society, and traditional culture all contain matters closely patterned on the present account. Ironically, the differences between countries and cultures only underscore the more the persistence of timeless observances and human needs for all mankind. In the last hundred years, a pattern wars, holocaust and natural disasters has reenforced the urge to make such journeys with piquantly different and yet basically similar motivations and distinctive side activities.
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