The Bible and Global Tourism
Ebook
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.
Examines how the bible influences tourism and how readings of the bible in the modern day can be influenced by biblical tourism. Considers not only visits to biblical 'sites' but also festivals, performance and museums.
A comparative and interdisciplinary dialogue around the relationship between touristic practice and claims to biblical heritage
Considers the full range of touristic experiences related to the bible and their cultural functions
Considers how cultural narratives about the bible shape the touristic experience and how this in turn shapes the cultural narrative around the bible
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
The Bible and Global Tourism takes a fresh look at the cross-fertilization of tourism and pilgrimage through tourists' dynamic engagements with scripture and associated traditions. In a series of fascinating examples from the United States, western Europe, and the Mediterranean, its chapters build a case for rethinking 'secularization,' in Europe in particular, by recognizing how tourism can create new and diverse faces for religious practice.
Innovative research now mainly takes place at the interface of closely related thematic clusters, and this book on biblically-framed travel or biblical tourism can therefore touch on religious studies, ritual studies, pilgrimage studies, leisure studies, heritage studies, and museum studies. Rather than top-heavy multi- or transdisciplinary theorizing, this book presents eleven fascinating case studies. Their approach is always broad, open and topical. Broad and open in terms of period, location, religious tradition; manifestation, and topical in looking through the lens of claims of authenticity and identity constructions. In essence, this book fully explores the dynamic triad of myth, rite and place.
- Title: The Bible and Global Tourism
- Authors: James S. Bielo, Lieke Wijnia
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780567681423, 9780567698407, 0567698408, 0567681424
- Resource ID: LLS:9780567681423
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-12T04:02:03Z
James S. Bielo is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Miami University, Ohio, USA.
Lieke Wijnia is curator at Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht, The Netherlands.