Heritage-Making in Hong Kong Through Culture and Religion

2024
ISBN: 978-981-97-4338-4
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 147 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 323 g

This book centres on religious heritage-making where religion as a rich and diverse manifestation of culture and community empowerment lead to the transformation of place. Fusing heritage and religion in the novel multidisciplinary concept ‘heri-ligion’, the authors illuminate the dynamics of change inherent in religious-oriented heritage-making. Grounded in empirical evidence, this rich concept integrates religious tourism, heritage tourism, and community-based empowerment for sustainable development.

Applying this unique concept to the once abandoned Hakka village of Yim Tin Tsai, the authors analyse the evolving paths of the island from its Hakka origins to a Christian pilgrimage site, and more recently, to a UNESCO cultural heritage site and thriving tourist destination. The authors foreground the important role of the scattered community as a key agent of change in facilitating a sustainable environment of Hong Kong’s only salt-producing place today. A dynamic example of community development and empowerment founded upon religious, cultural, industrial and natural heritage, this book uniquely contributes to tourism and heritage studies, human geography, cultural sociology, Hakka studies, Asian studies, and anthropology of religion.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sofield, Trevor

Shek, Kwo Fung

Marafa, Lawal Mohammed

Li, Fung Mei Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Concept of 'Heri-ligion'.- Chapter 3: Yim Tim Tsai–The Place and Its History.- Chapter 4: 'Heri-ligion' – The Heritagization of Religion and the Sacralization of Heritage.- Chapter 5: Ethnicity and Identity – The Yim Tin Tsai Hakka Heritage Exhibition Centre.- Chapter 6: Attachment to Place, Nostalgia, and Home.- Chapter 7: The Concept of Co–Creation and Yim Tin Tsai.- Chapter 8: Stakeholder Analysis.- Chapter 9: Entanglement.- Chapter 10: Empowerment for Sustainable Development.- Chapter 11: Future Research and Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Trevor Sofield is Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In over 400 publications on numerous research projects and consultancies in Europe, Asia, Oceania and Latin America, he has researched on tourism policy, community-based development for poverty alleviation and empowerment, UNESCO World Heritage issues as well as Indigenous and cultural tourism, among others.

Lawal Mohammed Marafa  is Professor at the Department of Geography and Resource Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include ecotourism, community-based sustainable development, and leisure and recreation.

Fung Mei Sarah Li is a researcher with degrees from Hong Kong, England and Australia. Her research interests cover tourism policy and planning for development, heritage and cultural tourism, as well as geological and cave tourism, among others. 

Kwo FungShek is a talented emerging scholar who, for a decade, has been instrumental in the development of pilgrimage tourism by the Hakka community of Yim Tin Tsai in Hong Kong.