ISBN:
9781350006232
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1350006238
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
x, 219 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Serie:
Critiquing religion: discourse, culture, power
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Roberts, Erin Christian Tourism, Myth-Making and Identity Formation.
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Christian tourist attractions, mythmaking, and identity formation
DDC:
338.4/7263041
Schlagwort(e):
Tourism Case studies Religious aspects
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Christianity
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Tourism Case studies
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Religious aspects
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Christianity
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Tourism Religious aspects
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Christianity
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Tourismus
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Reiseziel
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Christentum
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Heiligtum
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Tourismus
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Reiseziel
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Christentum
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Heiligtum
Kurzfassung:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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