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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor James S. Bielo is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, USA. He is the author of four books, most recently Ark Encounter: The Making of a Creationist Theme Park (2018), and is the co-founder and lead curator for the digital scholarship project Materializing the Bible. Lieke Wijnia is Head of Curation and Library at Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht, The Netherlands. 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 - Suzann...
