TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rogers,Stephanie Stidham
TI  - Inventing the Holy Land: American Protestant pilgrimage to Palestine, 1865-1941 
SN  - 9780739148440
AV  - BT93.8 
U1  - 263/.042569408828040973 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Lanham, Md.
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
KW  - Palestine
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Protestant churches
KW  - United States
KW  - Doctrines
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Travelers' writings, American
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Églises protestantes
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Écrits de voyageurs américains
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Holidays
KW  - Christian
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Palestine in Christianity
KW  - In Christianity
KW  - Dans le christianisme
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-155) and index; Introduction -- American Protestants and Palestine -- Protestants, Arabs, and Islam inthe Holy Land -- American Protestant Zionism and pilgrimage narratives -- The out-of-doors Gospel in Palestine: Protestants encounter Catholic and Orthodox shrines and create their own traditions -- Concluding thoughts
N2  - This book presents a historical study of the phenomenon of Holy Land tourism among American Protestants during the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. During this period, overseas travel was newly available to the Protestant middle class due to the invention and steady popularization of steamship travel. Protestants "at home" in America consumed vast quantities of printed literature via the popular medium of Holy Land pilgrimage narratives. A new mental geography resulted, in which Americans forged a fresh awareness of the Middle East and began to focus millennial hopes upon the political and social concept of a Jewish remnant of the last days in a Protestant theological and historical framework. Protestant support for Zionism was born. What surfaces from the study of hundreds of pilgrimage narratives from this period is the emergence of Palestine as an iconic place for American Protestants. Through pilgrimage narratives, American Protestant's understanding of Palestinians, biblical authority, the power of the Protestant press, the historicity of the Christian faith, an millennial expectations were formed as the meaning of the Holy Land was constructed. Findings from the pilgrimage narratives also indicate the importance of Palestine among Protestants as a "fifth gospel written in stone." The pilgrim's eastward gaze drew a distant biblical past into sharper focus and fueled the fires of premillenialism, a movement that would leave an enduring stamp upon American religion and politics
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