Re-Enchanting Rural Sacred Sites: A Critical Realist Approach to Tourism Experience and Management in Post-Secularity
Published online on March 24, 2026
Abstract
Journal of Travel Research, Ahead of Print.
Tourism research on spiritual and post-secular travel has advanced understanding of sacred-site experiences yet often treats spirituality as an “umbrella” construct, conflating religious, secular, and transcendent orientations. Drawing on critical realism,...
Tourism research on spiritual and post-secular travel has advanced understanding of sacred-site experiences yet often treats spirituality as an “umbrella” construct, conflating religious, secular, and transcendent orientations. Drawing on critical realism,...