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Short-term mission trips in Asia: intertwining religion, volunteering and tourism

In: A Research Agenda for Religious Tourism

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  • Grace Ann Chua
  • Harng Luh Sin

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Situated within the rise of Christian mission trips from Asia and especially from Singapore, this paper posits important questions regarding our understanding of tourism - how do religious beliefs and spiritual experiences ground and inform tourists’ performative practices of care? Focusing on religion offers us a new understanding for subjective place-based care practices of how tourism becomes oriented towards poverty alleviation. Using fieldwork with a mission trip from a Singaporean church to the Philippines, this chapter untangles why short-term mission trips often focus on aspects of care - such as prayers - that may seem unimportant to others. Short-term mission trips hence serve as a point of entry to critically consider what it might mean for tourism if we were to take seriously the religious points of view of our respondents when they posit that all care is spiritual care.

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  • Grace Ann Chua & Harng Luh Sin, 2024. "Short-term mission trips in Asia: intertwining religion, volunteering and tourism," Chapters, in: Kiran A. Shinde & Joseph M. Cheer (ed.), A Research Agenda for Religious Tourism, chapter 4, pages 57-70, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:21827_4
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