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Walking Where Jesus Walked - American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage (Paperback)
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Walking Where Jesus Walked - American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage (Paperback)
Series: North American Religions
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Since the 1950s, millions of American Christians have traveled to
the Holy Land to visit places in Israel and the Palestinian
territories associated with Jesus's life and death. Why do these
pilgrims choose to journey halfway around the world? How do they
react to what they encounter, and how do they understand the trip
upon return? This book places the answers to these questions into
the context of broad historical trends, analyzing how the growth of
mass-market evangelical and Catholic pilgrimage relates to changes
in American Christian theology and culture over the last sixty
years, including shifts in Jewish-Christian relations, the growth
of small group spirituality, and the development of a Christian
leisure industry. Drawing on five years of research with pilgrims
before, during and after their trips, Walking Where Jesus Walked
offers a lived religion approach that explores the trip's hybrid
nature for pilgrims themselves: both ordinary--tied to their
everyday role as the family's ritual specialists, and
extraordinary--since they leave home in a dramatic way, often for
the first time. Their experiences illuminate key tensions in
contemporary US Christianity between material evidence and
transcendent divinity, commoditization and religious authority,
domestic relationships and global experience. Hillary Kaell crafts
the first in-depth study of the cultural and religious significance
of American Holy Land pilgrimage after 1948. The result sheds light
on how Christian pilgrims, especially women, make sense of their
experience in Israel-Palestine, offering an important complement to
top-down approaches in studies of Christian Zionism and foreign
policy.
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