Walking Where Jesus Walked : American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage /

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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 d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kaell, Hillary
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Christianity.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.
RELIGION > General.
RELIGION > Holidays > Christian.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages > Palestine.
Christianity > United States.
United States.
Middle East > Palestine.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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, includi.
Notas:Printe edition is xiii, 267 pages.
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D., Program in the History of American Civilization)--Harvard University, 2010.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9780814738252

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