Walking where Jesus walked : American Christians and Holy Land pilgrimage

Walking where Jesus walked : American Christians and Holy Land pilgrimage / Hillary Kaell.

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 the...

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Main Author: Kaell, Hillary
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Series:North American religions.
Subjects:
Christianity > United States.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages > Palestine.
Table of Contents:
  • Knowing the Holy Land: Sunday School Lessons and the Six O'Clock News
  • Soul Searching: Why Grandparents Go Abroad
  • Feeling the Gospel: Evangelicals, Place, and Presence
  • The Middle Generation: Catholics, Scripture, and Tradition
  • God and Mammon, God and Caesar: Commerce and Politics in the Holy Land
  • The Long Voyage Home: Transformation and Rituals of Return.

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