The Bible and Global Tourism (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bielo, James S.; Wijnia, Lieke

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines the ways in which biblical tourism is enmeshed within the production and management of heritage, global contexts of marketing and publicity, accessibility of sacred sites and routes for multiple audiences, and the forging of connections between travel and social identity. By exploring issues such as devotional piety, religious pedagogy, and entertainment, an interdisciplinary collection of scholars traces how biblical tourism experiences are choreographed and consumed, and how these practices shape embodied and narrative performances of scripture. Contributors focus on four major questions: How have people used tourism to develop new, or renewed, relationships with the Bible? Historically, what role has the Bible played in the development of modern tourism? In the context of the tourist encounter, how have people mobilized the Bible as a social and expressive resource? And what forms of social exchange shape acts of biblical tourism, such as among pilgrims, or between people and landscapes? These questions are centered not only around authorized shrines and "Holy Places," but also festivals, museums, theme parks, and heritage sites. This book aims to create a comparative and interdisciplinary dialogue around the dynamic relationship between biblical heritage claims and the practices and infrastructures of modern tourism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567681409
• Artikelnr.: 60873709

Autorenporträt

James S. Bielo is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Miami University, Ohio, USA. Lieke Wijnia is curator at Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors Introduction - Lieke Wijnia
Museum Catharijneconvent
The Netherlands.
the Netherlands and James S. Bielo
Miami University
USA Part One: Bridging Past and Present Chapter 1: Nazareth In Pewter: Pilgrims' Badges of Loreto
Walsingham and Wavre - Hanneke van Asperen
Radboud University
the Netherlands Chapter 2: Blinded by Their Zeal": Guide Books to the Holy land - Jack Kugelmass
University of Florida
USA Chapter 3: Back to the Garden: Bringing Visitors to American Edens
1885-1956 - Brook Wilensky-Lanford
University of North Carolina
USA Part Two: Performing the Bible Chapter 4: The Latter-day Saints
the Bible
and Tourism - Daniel Olsen
Brigham Young University
USA and George A. Pierce
Brigham Young University
USA Chapter 5: Looking for a Miracle: Tourism
Tanya and Theurgy at the Grave of the 'Late' Lubavitcher Rebbe - Simon Dein
University of London
UK Chapter 6: Media Pilgrimage: the Stories that Shape the Modern Camino de Santiago - Suzanne van der Beek
Tilburg University the Netherlands Chapter 7: Cultural-Religious Routes and their Tourism Valorization: In the "Footsteps of the Apostle Paul in Greece" - Polyxeni Moira
Piraeus University of Applied Sciences
Greece Part Three: Heritagization Chapter 8: Bible Museums - Crispin Paine
University College London
UK Chapter 9: Rewriting the Bible: The Visual Culture of Creation Science - Larisssa Carneiro
Duke University
USA Chapter 10: Music
Scripture and the Sacred: Negotiating the Postsecular at a Dutch Arts Festival - Lieke Wijnia
Museum Catharijneconvent
the Netherlands Chapter 11: Building on the Gospel: the Moravian Settlement at Christiansfeld - Marie Vejrup Nielsen
Aarhus University
Denmark Afterword - James S. Bielo
Miami University
USA Index