Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation.
Roberts, Erin.
Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (231 pages) - Critiquing Religion: Discourse, Culture, Power Series . - Critiquing Religion: Discourse, Culture, Power Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: Myth, Our Bloodless Battleground -- 1 The Museum of the Bible: Promoting Biblical Exceptionalism to Naturalize an Evangelical America -- 2 The Materiality of Myth: Authorizing Fundamentalism at Ark Encounter -- 3 Rival Epistemologies and Constructed Confusion at the Creation.Museum -- 4 "It is what it.is": -- 5 "...that their heart might throb with love for Israel!": Celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles with Charismatics and Messian -- 6 Anachronism as a Constituent Feature of Mythmaking at the BibleWalk.Museum -- 7 Embodied Mythic Formation at the Holy Land Experience -- 8 On the Myth of Religion's Uniqueness -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781350006218
Tourism-Religious aspects-Christianity.
Electronic books.
G156.5.R44 C475 2019
261.85
Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (231 pages) - Critiquing Religion: Discourse, Culture, Power Series . - Critiquing Religion: Discourse, Culture, Power Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: Myth, Our Bloodless Battleground -- 1 The Museum of the Bible: Promoting Biblical Exceptionalism to Naturalize an Evangelical America -- 2 The Materiality of Myth: Authorizing Fundamentalism at Ark Encounter -- 3 Rival Epistemologies and Constructed Confusion at the Creation.Museum -- 4 "It is what it.is": -- 5 "...that their heart might throb with love for Israel!": Celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles with Charismatics and Messian -- 6 Anachronism as a Constituent Feature of Mythmaking at the BibleWalk.Museum -- 7 Embodied Mythic Formation at the Holy Land Experience -- 8 On the Myth of Religion's Uniqueness -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781350006218
Tourism-Religious aspects-Christianity.
Electronic books.
G156.5.R44 C475 2019
261.85