Spiritual Entrepreneurship in a Northern Landscape: Spirituality, Tourism and Politics
A cultural turn in the economy has led to growth in what might be called ‘spiritual entrepreneurship’.1 This term refers to entrepreneurs inspired by a New Age philosophy marketing spiritual values such as ‘self-development’, ‘holism’ and ‘deep values’. To shed light on this type of enterprise, the...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2012
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Temenos
Year: 2012, Volume: 48, Issue: 2, Pages: 155-178 |
Further subjects: | B
Tourism
B New Age B spiritual entrepreneurship B Indigenous spirituality B local reinvention |
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Summary: | A cultural turn in the economy has led to growth in what might be called ‘spiritual entrepreneurship’.1 This term refers to entrepreneurs inspired by a New Age philosophy marketing spiritual values such as ‘self-development’, ‘holism’ and ‘deep values’. To shed light on this type of enterprise, the article examines one of its practitioners; Esther Utsi at Polmakmoen Guesthouse in northern Norway. My focus is on how New Age spirituality is here localized, wrapped in local indigenous culture and landscape, and turned into a commodity with market value for both tourists and conference participants. The staging of spirituality simultaneously involves marketing a vaca- tion destination to outsiders, and is also linked to the formation of a reimagined local identity, and incorporated into the redefinition of images and dreams about the northern region. |
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ISSN: | 2342-7256 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Temenos
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.33356/temenos.7510 |