Study On Religious Thoughts and Cultural Diversity Through Tourism
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The study of religion through tourism is considered a new approach to carrying out research activities and acquiring knowledge. Tourism, as a tool of study, has a large potential for theological research and exploring universal cultural diversity. Pilgrimage, the extract of religious tourism unveils the truth, science of faith, and doctrines of theology. Factors and dynamics of the social influences, politics, and international events affecting religions can be studied through tourism. In a heterogeneous society, theology and mutual doctrines administer the belief system of people and enrich religious diversity. Tourism intercepts sacred motivations for pilgrimage and exploring the religious and cultural schools of thought. The amount of respect among tourists and local communities creates religious tolerance and the belief system. Studying cultural diversity through tourism indicates the secularity of religious thinking and dynamics inside human thoughts. Ethnic and cultural belongings of religion express the social and economic utilities through tourism. Religious culture is a highly intense and immensely powerful reality with sacred and ethical values. It builds a tendency to reconstruct religious thoughts with cultural diversity to develop the future of mankind. This article endeavors to find out the academic potentiality of tourism to understand the application to exploring religious thoughts and cultural diversity in the contemporary period.
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