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Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation (Critiquing Religion: Discourse, Culture, Power) by Erin Roberts, (Assistant Professor in Religious Studies); Jennifer Eyl is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation (Critiquing Religion: Discourse, Culture, Power) about?

"Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation examines a sampling of contemporary Christian tourist attractions that position visitors as the inheritors of ancient, sacred traditions and make claims about the truth of the historical narratives that they promote. Rather than approaching these attractions as sacred expressions of religious experience or as uncontested accounts of history, the book applies recent work on mythmaking and identity formation to argue that these presentations of the past function as strategic discourses that serve material concerns in the present. From an approach informed by social and materialist theories of religion, the volume draws upon a variety of methodological approaches that enable readers to understand the often-bewildering array of objects, claims, demands, and activities (not to mention the seemingly endless array of gifts and personal items available for purchase) that appear at attractions including Ark Encounter, the Creation Museum, the Holy Land Experience, Bible Walk Museum, Christian Zionist tours of Israel, and the recently opened Museum of the Bible. Discourse analysis, practice theory, rhetorical criticism, and e

Who reads Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation (Critiquing Religion: Discourse, Culture, Power)?

Author

Erin Roberts, (Assistant Professor in Religious Studies); Jennifer Eyl

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350006232

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Science, Christian