Dialogue concerning tourism and religion
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2024
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Elservier
Abstract
This edited email dialogue between a senior American social scientist, Dean MacCannell, and an
early career French anthropologist, Thomas Apchain, began soon after they observed that two
of the earliest contributions to tourism studies, MacCannell's and Nelson Graburn's, both
claimed tourist phenomena to be underpinned by classical theories of religion. The lack of
follow-up on either MacCannell's or Graburn's claim of an analytically heuristic relationship between tourism and religion is traced back to a preexisting schism in the sociology and anthropology of religion between Arnold Van Gennep and Emile Durkheim. MacCannell and Apchain find that this division persists as a fracture in the foundation of the social theory both of tourism research and of the human sciences more generally.
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Annals of Tourism Research 104 (2024) 103677
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Tourism; Religion; General theory; Van Gennep; Durkheim