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Inventing the Holy Land
American Protestant Pilgrimage to Palestine, 1865–1941
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2011
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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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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4842-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4844-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
163
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Acknowledgments No access
1 Introduction No access Pages 1 - 20
2 American Protestants and Palestine No access Pages 21 - 60
3 Protestants, Arabs, and Islam in the Holy Land No access Pages 61 - 94
4 American Protestant Zionism and Pilgrimage Narratives No access Pages 95 - 118
5 The Out-of-Doors Gospel in Palestine: Protestants Encounter Catholic and Orthodox Shrines and Create Their Own Traditions No access Pages 119 - 144
