Sanctifying the Settler-Colonial Gaze: Nineteenth-Century American Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
American Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land started within a historical and ideological context shaped by American territorial expansionism. The settler-colonial impulses informing that expansionism were carried to Palestine, where Palestinians were encountered as savages compared explicitly to...
| Published in: | Theology today |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
[2018]
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Theology today
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBL Near East and North Africa KBQ North America KCD Hagiography; saints |
| Further subjects: | B
Manifest Destiny
B American expansionism B Holy Land B Pilgrimage B Settler Colonialism B PILGRIMS & pilgrimages B Mark Twain B AMERICAN Christian missions B Herman Melville B Israel B Palestine |
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| Summary: | American Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land started within a historical and ideological context shaped by American territorial expansionism. The settler-colonial impulses informing that expansionism were carried to Palestine, where Palestinians were encountered as savages compared explicitly to American Indians. Erasure of the Holy Land's Indigenous inhabitants is thus sanctioned. Herman Melville's Clarel and Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad record this encounter. We must be aware of this history if it is not to be repeated in contemporary pilgrimage practices. |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0040573617731715 |