Pilgrimage and Religious Tourism in the Information Society

Abstract

This article considers the state of the pilgrim tradition and religious tourism in the information society. Formed in new civilizational conditions, a new type of religiosity deforms the pilgrimage tradition and includes it in the sphere of tourist industry. In addition to changing the status of pilgrimage in the information society, new types of religious tourism are formed. This article offers an analysis of one of them, which we propose to call “religious and simulation tourism”.