Document Type : Original Article
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M. A. student of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Cultural Sudies, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Ilam, Ilam, Iran
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Assistant professor, Department of Sociology and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran
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Professor, Department of Sociology and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran
10.22034/scart.2024.139627.1365
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to discover and identify the semantic implications of religious tourism based on the experience of visitors of religious places in Dehloran county in Ilam province. The research paradigm is qualitative and its method is interpretive phenomenology. The target society of the research includes all the visitors of religious places in Dehloran county in 1401. for select the participants in the research by using the purposive sampling method and according to the sufficiency criterion, 24 people have been chosen. The data collection tool was an in-depth interview and the method of data analysis was the method of Smith et al. (2009). During data coding and searching for patterns in data, the themes of spiritual experience, calmness and pacification, re-exploration the meaning of life, Improving relationships, upgrading of social capital, opening cultural horizons and strengthening religious beliefs were obtained. The results indicate the existence of spiritual experience as an important semantic implication among the studied tourists. Pilgrimage tripe is the product of a complex interaction between structural conditions, habitus and the action of choosing the destination, place and action of the tourist, which show themselves in the choice of Holy places in certain places. In addition to the pilgrimage , the participants in the research did not neglect leisure, nature-based tourism and entertainment. these tourists can be categorized as pilgrims-tourists, who in this trip combine the spiritual element of tourism with its material aspect and consider a wide range of travel necessities for themselves.
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