Abstract
The Balts’ Road tourism route in Latvia and Lithuania is an interesting example of how religious tourism may be packaged within a framework of cultural heritage tourism. The Balts’ Road offers travellers insight into the medieval Baltic world before the coming of Christianity. In this context, pre-Christian religious beliefs and practices constitute but one dimension of the historical tableau that the tourism route is intended to conjure. This article examines the manner in which the pre-Christian Baltic religion is represented on the Balts’ Road, displaying a certain ambivalence that seems related to the past religious history and current religious power relations in the region.
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Strmiska, Michael
(2023)
"Representation of Pre-Christian Baltic Religion in the Balts’ Road Tourism Route in Lithuania and Latvia,"
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage:
Vol. 11:
Iss.
4, Article 11.
doi:https://doi.org/10.21427/HJJV-NR12
Available at:
https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ijrtp/vol11/iss4/11
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21427/HJJV-NR12