From Religiosity to Traumascape: The Role of Death in Western Cultures

From Religiosity to Traumascape: The Role of Death in Western Cultures

ISBN13: 9781522557302|ISBN10: 152255730X|EISBN13: 9781522557319
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5730-2.ch011
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Korstanje, Maximiliano Emanuel. "From Religiosity to Traumascape: The Role of Death in Western Cultures." Handbook of Research on Socio-Economic Impacts of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, edited by José Álvarez-García, et al., IGI Global, 2019, pp. 195-210. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5730-2.ch011

APA

Korstanje, M. E. (2019). From Religiosity to Traumascape: The Role of Death in Western Cultures. In J. Álvarez-García, M. del Río Rama, & M. Gómez-Ullate (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Socio-Economic Impacts of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage (pp. 195-210). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5730-2.ch011

Chicago

Korstanje, Maximiliano Emanuel. "From Religiosity to Traumascape: The Role of Death in Western Cultures." In Handbook of Research on Socio-Economic Impacts of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, edited by José Álvarez-García, María de la Cruz del Río Rama, and Martín Gómez-Ullate, 195-210. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5730-2.ch011

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Abstract

This chapter theorizes on the role of death's figurations on the Western culture. The authors focus on dark tourism as the sign of a new phenomenon, which remained ignored for many sociologists and anthropologists. While the process of secularization ended the hopes and promises of religion, new forms of consumption emerged. The authors here coin the term Thana Capitalism to denote the obsession of modern society to capture the others suffering, and in so doing, perpetuating their logics of domination and surveillance. This chapter opens the doors towards a much deeper debate ignited by the needs of understanding dark tourism and its connections with religiosity.

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