Pain, suffering and the consumption of spirituality: a toe story

Autor: Bernard Cova, Veronique Cova
Přispěvatelé: Kedge Business School (Kedge BS), Centre d'Études et de Recherche en Gestion d'Aix-Marseille (CERGAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN), Cermes, Université Bocconi
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Journal of Marketing Management
Journal of Marketing Management, 2018, ⟨10.1080/0267257X.2018.1559872⟩
Journal of Marketing Management, Westburn Publishers, 2019, pp.1-21
ISSN: 1472-1376
0267-257X
Popis: International audience; The article addresses spiritual consumption from a corporal perspective, with a specific focus on pain and suffering as vehicles to a higher spiritual state. It applies a comparative auto-ethnography of the pain that people participating in two pilgrimages – the Camino de Santiago in France and Spain and the Quebec Compostela in Canada – feel in their toes and uses this to discuss how the experience and manifestation of pain actualises the spiritual experience. The results show that corporal pain transforms into a spiritual experience in the way that it connects to both the spiritual features associated with a particular context and the spiritual capital of the person experiencing the pain. They also reveal that displaying corporal pain during rituals – much like the sense of communion that is generated through the act of sharing – fosters further transformations leading to spiritual experiences.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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