Tour-guiding as a pious place-making practice: The case of the Sehitlik Mosque,Berlin

The Sehitlik Mosque in Berlin, led by the second and third generations of ethnically Turkish Germans, has risen as an exemplar of public engagement through its tourist enterprise. Drawing from ethnographic research in this mosque, driven by questions on the potential social impacts of piety, I analyze how the tour becomes itself a pious place-making practice: an innovative way of “doing religion” for the post-migrant generations in Berlin. I center on how two key aspects of religious place-making in diaspora are accomplished through the tour: the management of difference and belonging, and the embodiment of faith. This research demonstrates the ways in which tourism in sacred spaces provides unique opportunities for tour guides to have agentive and transformative experiences.     

把魂丢在马尔代夫

即使做好充分思想准备,初次踏足马尔代夫的人,永远只有两种反应,傻眼或是发出疯狂的尖叫甚至流泪。马尔代夫有1190个小岛,一个连着一个,仿佛时光的无穷。透明的天、透明的海和近乎让人害怕的蓝。海边浅滩里的水拥有惊人的杀伤力,可以让人沉迷,或者留恋在此不愿归去。然而,由于全球变暖导致海平面上升,这个天堂岛国正面临着消失的危险。马尔代夫平均海拔1.2米,是世界上海拔最低的国家之一。联合国气候变化问题研究小组在2007年警告说,如果到2100年海平面上升18～59厘米,骇浪就会把岛屿全部吞没……所以,让我们忘掉都市、忘掉工作,体验低碳的度假方式,去这个岛上制造浪漫,就像马尔代夫的广告词上所写的一样:在地球上最后一个乐园里,只有你和你的爱人,还有马尔代夫……     

奇景奇井

岛中岛:位于南太平洋西部的汤加王国的西列岛上,有一个岛屿,岛上有个湖,湖中有个岛,岛上又有湖,一环套一环,构成了世界上罕见的“岛中岛“. 　　湖中湖:加拿大安大略省的休伦湖中,有座面积为2766平方公里的马尾图林岛,岛上有个湖,叫马尾湖,面积106平方公里,是世界上最大的湖中湖.……     

天下“第一泉“

位于江苏盱眙境内的“第一泉“过去叫“龙泉“,用“第一泉“水酿造的酒在当地有名气.此泉冬暖夏凉,有时自喷有一米多高,小城人就在泉边建了座矿泉水厂,产品远销各地.每到夏天,在“第一泉“和小城之间的路上,小城人会带着各式各样的桶到泉边装水回家饮用,因此,各式品牌的矿泉水在小城就没了市场.……     

景区中的“108“

1、福建武夷山风景区内有36峰、72洞、99岩、108景点,景区面积约70平方公里.这里是典型的丹霞地貌,亿万年大自然的鬼斧神工,形成奇峰峭拔,秀水潆洄、碧水丹峰、风光绝胜的美景,古人说它“水有三三胜,峰有六六奇“,被誉为“奇秀甲东南“.1992年12月被列入<世界遗产名录>.……     

The Hero as Traveler,The Traveler as Hero

This article uses an insight from the French scholar Michel de Certeau to the effect that all stories are travel stories involving spatial transference and the theories of the Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp, as elaborated in his classic work Morphology of the Folktale, to argue all heroes are travelers of one sort or another. It suggests, that in addition to the fact that all heroes are travelers, all travelers are—broadly speaking—heroes and heroines.     

世界酒文化仅有的奇迹

著名哲学家冯友兰先生在为国立西南联合大学纪念碑撰写的碑文中,谈到了关于中华文明在世界文明中的定位:盖并世列强,虽新而不古;希腊罗马,有古而无今。惟我国家,亘古亘新,亦新亦旧,斯所谓‘周虽旧邦,其命维新'者也。