{"product_id":"9780814738368-walking-where-jesus-walked","title":"Walking Where Jesus Walked","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmerican Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on five years of research with pilgrims before, during and after their trips, this book 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince\u003cbr\u003e the 1950s, millions of American Christians have traveled to the Holy Land to\u003cbr\u003e visit places in Israel and the Palestinian territories associated with Jesus's life\u003cbr\u003e and death. Why do these pilgrims choose to journey\u003cbr\u003e halfway around the world? How do\u003cbr\u003e they react to what they encounter, and how do\u003cbr\u003e they understand the trip upon return? This book places the\u003cbr\u003e answers to these questions into the context of broad historical trends, analyzing how\u003cbr\u003e the growth of mass-market evangelical and Catholic pilgrimage\u003cbr\u003e relates to changes in American Christian\u003cbr\u003e theology and culture over the last sixty years,\u003cbr\u003e including shifts in Jewish-Christian relations, the growth of small group spirituality, and the development of a Christian\u003cbr\u003e leisure industry.\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on five years\u003cbr\u003e of research with pilgrims before, during and after their trips, Walking Where Jesus Walked offers a lived religion approach that\u003cbr\u003e explores the trip's hybrid nature for pilgrims themselves: both ordinary—tied\u003cbr\u003e to their everyday role as the family's ritual specialists, and\u003cbr\u003e extraordinary—since they leave home in a dramatic way, often for the first\u003cbr\u003e time. Their experiences illuminate key tensions in contemporary US Christianity\u003cbr\u003e between material evidence and transcendent divinity, commoditization and\u003cbr\u003e religious authority, domestic relationships and global experience.\u003cbr\u003e Hillary Kaell crafts the first in-depth study of the\u003cbr\u003e cultural and religious significance of American Holy Land pilgrimage after\u003cbr\u003e 1948. The result sheds light on how Christian pilgrims, especially women, make\u003cbr\u003e sense of their experience in Israel-Palestine, offering an important complement\u003cbr\u003e to top-down approaches in studies of Christian Zionism and foreign policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57106764956022,"sku":"9780814738368","price":85.33,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_37592825.jpg?v=1768889797","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780814738368-walking-where-jesus-walked","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}