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This collection of essays presents the very latest research on the peace-building dimension of sacred and secular journeys at individual, societal, regional and global levels. Not since the 1980s has there been any concerted effort to explore the potential of such journeys in helping to bridge the divide that separates people of diverse ethnicities, religions and cultures. This volume gathers together empirical studies, regional analyses, and personal reflections from four continents and twelve countries, including Sri Lanka, Syria, Ethiopia, and Indonesia, which highlight the potential of religious tourism and pilgrimage for promoting interfaith solidarity, natural dialogue, and inner peace. It will be of interest to religion, tourism and peace scholars, as well as to political scientists and anthropologists.

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Australian anthropologist Ian S. McIntosh is the founder of the Sacred Journeys project which brings together pilgrimage and religious tourism scholars from across the globe for an annual conference. Dr McIntosh has co-edited two books on pilgrimage, Pilgrimage in Practice and The Many Voices of Pilgrimage and Reconciliation, and authored three books on Aboriginal culture and religion, including Between Two Worlds: Essays in Honour of the Visionary Aboriginal Elder David Burrumarra. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) School of Liberal Arts. He is also the founder of the Indianapolis Spiritual Trail and the Australian heritage group Past Masters International.Dr Nour Farra Haddad is a Senior Researcher and teacher at St-Josef University of Beirut, the Lebanese University, and the American University of Science and Technology, Lebanon, and is a specialist in religious tourism and pilgrimage. She founded and managed Lebanon Roots, the travel agency of the Lebanese Maronite Order and is now managing her own travel consultant company, NEOS. She is a founding member of the Association for the Development of Pilgrimages and Religious Tourism, and the author of two touristic guides, Wiz Kids and Eco Lebanon: Nature and Rural Tourism. She also developed the first mobile application promoting interreligious tourism in Lebanon, titled Holy Lebanon.Dane Munro was educated at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and at the University of Malta, where he is currently a Resident Academic at the Institute for Tourism, Travel and Culture. He is active in several specialized fields, as a Neo-Latinist, historian of sepulchral art of the Order of St John, and the field of faith-based tourism.

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