Fifteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

The study considers how spirituality, leisure, and culture can intersect and create spaces of spiritual enrichment, recreation, and cultural heritage. In addition, it explores ubication, or how the making of a sacred or spiritual space is rooted in cultural time, space an loci (Pfister, 2017). A sacred space can be identified as anywhere an individual feels meaning, healing, ritual , identity or transformation (Sponsel, 2008). For example, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has identified 1121 irreplaceable World Heritage sites that include forests, mountains, lakes, deserts, monuments, buildings, complexes or cities that are of special cultural or physical significance. Because of the spiritual, recreational, and historic nature of these sites, UNESCO sacred spaces offer a unique experience in understanding cultural legacy. These spaces are often preserved with great care and demonstrate the value of the intersection of spirituality, leisure, and culture in understanding the human experience, leisure as transformation and ultimately preserving our world heritage.