Christian tourist attractions, mythmaking, and identity formation
Religious attractions in the form of museums, theme parks, and guided tours allow visitors to interact directly with specific narratives about the past, present, and future. As such, they are often viewed as providing historical and doctrinal education, wholesome entertainment, or sacred space for p...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomsbury Academic
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Series/Journal: | Critiquing religion: discourse, culture, power
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Tourism
/ Tourism
/ Christianity
/ Sanctuary
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion CD Christianity and Culture |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Tourism Religious aspects Christianity Case studies B Tourism Case studies Religious aspects Christianity B Tourism Religious aspects Christianity |
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| Summary: | Religious attractions in the form of museums, theme parks, and guided tours allow visitors to interact directly with specific narratives about the past, present, and future. As such, they are often viewed as providing historical and doctrinal education, wholesome entertainment, or sacred space for participants. Christian Tourism, Myth-Making and Identity instead shows the extent and the strategies through which the narratives are constructed, by analyzing religious tourist attractions that locate visitors within tradition- specific historical narratives. Case studies considered include Ark Encounter and the Creation Museum in Kentucky, the Bible Walk Museum in Ohio, Christian Zionist Tours in Israel and the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem. 0This book approaches these tourist attractions as active sites of myth-making that construct the past in particular ways that serve present and future interests related to identity. In this way, the sites are shown to be functionally equivalent to non-religious tourist attractions that also utilize these strategies. By examining the "religious" sites in terms of the common social practice known as myth-making, the book contributes to recent efforts within the academic study of religion to explain religious practice in recognizable, human terms |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index Includes bibliographical references and index Enthält 8 Beiträge |
| ISBN: | 1350006238 |