Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21847
Title: Re-examining Ecological Aspects of Vrindavan Pilgrimage
Contributor(s): Nash, Joshua  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2012-02-18
Early Online Version: 2012-01-20
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2932-2_7
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21847
Abstract: 

Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, India, the medieval Hindu pilgrimage centre associated with Radha and Krishna, provides a clear instance for observing ecological concerns associated with modern religious pilgrimage. This paper reconsiders ecological approaches to Vrindavan pilgrimage and argues that the current mismatch between belief and action by modern pilgrims in Vrindavan and its pilgrimage sites is the result of a schism between the perceived ecological significance of pilgrimage as a religious act and the importance of acts of pilgrimage as a method of ecological awareness creation. Based on over a decade of environmental fieldwork, a seven level model of human ecology is presented incorporating several levels of pilgrimage. This model challenges the relevance of previous research in pilgrimage tourism and the secularisation of pilgrimage in modern contexts.

Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Flows of Faith, p. 105-121
Publisher: Springer
Place of Publication: Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN: 9789400729315
9789400729322
9789400794290
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 200408 Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
220406 Studies in Eastern Religious Traditions
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 470409 Linguistic structures (incl. phonology, morphology and syntax)
500406 Studies in eastern religious traditions
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society
970105 Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280123 Expanding knowledge in human society
280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies
280111 Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an49015658
Editor: Editor(s): Lenore Manderson, Wendy Smith and Matt Tomlinson
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
School of Psychology

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