Walking where Jesus walked: American Christians and Holy Land pilgrimage
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1. Verfasser: Kaell, Hillary (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York New York University Press [2014]
Schriftenreihe:North American religions
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Beschreibung:Based on thesis (Ph.D., Program in the History of American Civilization)--Harvard University, 2010. - Printe edition is xiii, 267 pages
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-259) and index
Knowing the Holy Land: Sunday School Lessons and the Six O'Clock News -- Soul Searching: Why Grandparents Go Abroad -- Feeling the Gospel: Evangelicals, Place, and Presence -- The Middle Generation: Catholics, Scripture, and Tradition -- God and Mammon, God and Caesar: Commerce and Politics in the Holy Land -- The Long Voyage Home: Transformation and Rituals of Return
Since the 1950s, millions of American Christians have traveled to the Holy Land to visit places in Israel and the Palestinian territories associated with Jesus's life and death. Why do these pilgrims choose to journey halfway around the world? How do they react to what they encounter, and how do they understand the trip upon return? This book places the answers to these questions into the context of broad historical trends, analyzing how the growth of mass-market evangelical and Catholic pilgrimage relates to changes in American Christian theology and culture over the last sixty years, includi
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ISBN:0814738257
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