Tourism, Religion, and Spiritual Journeys Edited by Dallen Timothy and Daniel Olsen. Routledge <http:// www.routledge.com> 2006, xv + 285 pp (figures, tables, bibliography, index) £85 Hbk. ISBN 9780415354455 Amos S. Ron Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel This volume is an important contribution because spiritual and religious tour- ism is one of the most understudied areas. One of the few, Vukonic ´ (1996), is a primarily conceptual work, and this book is the next step, with a blend of about 40% conceptual and 60% case-study chapters, covering several religious and non- religious spiritual movements. The anthology covers a large portion of the globe, both religiously and culturally. According to its editors, ‘‘The aim of this book is to contribute to the growing literature on religiously motivated travel by reviewing and challenging existing paradigms, concepts, and practices related to pilgrimage and other forms of religious travel’’ (p. 3). It consists of four sections: an introduc- tory chapter; concepts, concerns, and management issues; religious traditions and tourism; and a concluding chapter. The first chapter, written by the editors, is an introduction to the subject, in gen- eral, and to the book, in particular. Their comprehensive and updated literature review covers four themes: pilgrim-tourist dichotomy characteristics and travel patterns of religious tourists; economics of religious tourism and negative impacts of tourism on religious sites/ceremonies. Two additional themes could have been added here: the management and sustainability of holy sites and the distinction between religious, civil and secular pilgrimages. The second section expands the limits of traditional pilgrimage to nonreligious contexts of spiritual journeys. Its chapters deal with four main perspectives: geo- graphical, historical, spiritual, and managerial. Two chapters deal with secular pilgrimages, but ignore the events of civil religion (civil pilgrimage) that are very popular in several cultures. The authors refer to those visiting battlefields as secular pilgrims, to 9–11’s Ground Zero as a secular pilgrimage center, and to Anzac day as a day of secular pilgrimage—but, in fact, these are all examples of civil pilgrimage. In addition, neither of these chapters mentions the seminal work of Reader and Walter (1993) on modern civil and secular pilgrimage. An important theoretical contribution is found in chapter three, where the author makes a distinction between two kinds of secular pilgrims: ‘‘those who still claim traditional religion as meeting their spiritual needs but for whom the journey fulfills a deep personal meaning, and those who could loosely be grouped under the broad ‘New Age’ banner’’ (p. 37). Chapters seven and eight contribute towards narrowing the gap between managerial needs of spiri- tual and religious tourism, and research on the subject. In chapter eight, Daniel Olsen mentions a management vacuum, assuming the presence of site managers and custodians, thus ignoring the fact that many sites have neither. According to Olsen, government influence ranges from suppression to subsidization. It would be useful to further develop this typology and outline more stages along this con- tinuum. Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 547–548, 2007 Printed in Great Britain PUBLICATIONS IN REVIEW 547