Spiritual Tourism’s editing and organizational issues make it a frustratingread. However, part of that frustration is because Norman is on to something.His work to bring together diverse disciplines and histories is valuable and hisdiscussion of spiritual tourists has application beyond this particular study.Contemporary religious practice is changing and some of Norman’s conclusionscould be productively applied to research on, as one example, religiousexploration in North American Evangelical churches (e.g., pub churches,house churches, new monasticism). Furthermore, his attention to the roleof popular literature in how people understand their spiritual tourism is afocus that should be applied to our understanding of religious practice morebroadly.
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