Holy Hills of the Ozarks: Religion and Tourism in Branson, Missouri
Aaron Ketchell explores tourist activity in Branson as a “form of devotion expressed within theatrical and amusement-oriented venues which seek to impart everyday expressions of leisure with ‘sacred’ value” (xvi). By offering thick descriptions of historical and contemporary tourism in Branson, he s...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2009
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2009, Volume: 70, Issue: 4, Pages: 457-458 |
| Review of: | Holy Hills of the Ozarks (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007) (Coats, Curtis)
Holy Hills of the Ozarks (Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2007) (Coats, Curtis) |
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| Summary: | Aaron Ketchell explores tourist activity in Branson as a “form of devotion expressed within theatrical and amusement-oriented venues which seek to impart everyday expressions of leisure with ‘sacred’ value” (xvi). By offering thick descriptions of historical and contemporary tourism in Branson, he shows how Branson's boosters manufacture a vision of the sacred in its tourist offerings, and he shows how this vision is internalized by tourists and infused into the Ozark landscape itself., The book begins with a historical account of Harold Bell Wright and a textual analysis of his novel, Shepherd of the Hills (1907), which is the keystone, both practically and metaphorically, of Branson tourism and its master narrative. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srp056 |