Prehistoric Monuments as Numinous Sites of Spiritual Tourism: The Rollright Stones

摘要: Prehistoric monuments in Britain are sites that have "drawn" people throughout history, due to their impressive size, dramatic location the landscape, and sense of permanence timelessness they convey. The religious attraction such stones for modern Pagans has been studied some detail, particularly terms renowned circles like Stonehenge Avebury, but appeal Neolithic "spiritual tourists" not assessed date. This article focuses on Rollright Stones near Chipping Norton Oxfordshire, a relatively accessible group an established body folklore attached site, profile popular culture, recent history use by as ritual site. author's fieldwork at 2014 produced three interrelated hypotheses: first, primary prehistoric is aesthetic; second, responding aesthetically experience feels "special" often involves "numinous"; third, this "specialness" linked ideas about what it means be human, relationship past present future, process identity-construction search wellbeing spiritual tourists typically engage with travels.