Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation (Critiquing Religion: Discourse, Culture, Power) - 9781350006232

Introduction : myth, our bloodless battleground / Erin Roberts -- Promoting biblical exceptionalism to naturalize an evangelical America / Stephen L. Young -- The materiality of myth : authorizing fundamentalism at Ark Encounter / James Bielo -- Rival epistemologies and constructed confusion at the Creation Museum / Steven Watkins -- "It is what it is" : mythmaking and identity formation on a Christian Zionist tour of Israel / Sean Durbin -- "That their heart might throb with love for Israel!" : celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles with charismatics and messianic Jews in Jerusalem / Katja Vehlow -- Anachronism as a constituent feature of mythmaking at the BibleWalk Museum / Jennifer Eyl -- Identity construction and the social logic of Descent at Holy Land Experience / Erin Roberts -- On the myth of religion's uniqueness / Craig Martin

• | Author: Erin Roberts, Craig Martin, Jennifer Eyl
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Nov 29, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Religion
• | ISBN-10: 1350006238
• | ISBN-13: 9781350006232