“Spirituality” and “Spiritual Tourism” in Vietnam from Theory of Religious Market

• Tác giả: Dinh Hong Hai
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Thông tin xuất bản: Religious studies, 2023
• Mô tả vật lý: tr.82-98
• Bộ sưu tập: Báo, Tạp chí
• ID: 346430

Tóm tắt

The terms ‘spirituality’ and ‘spiritual tourism’have recently appeared in Vietnamese society to refer toactivities related to religion-beliefs and economy-tourism.To understand their meanings, this study firstly explains theetymology, then examines the context of the birth andexistence of these terms in contemporary Vietnamesesociety. Based on the commodity theory perspective of K.Marx and the behaviorism of Ludwig von Mises, it exploresrelevant issues in the period from ‘Đổi mới’ to the present.