{"product_id":"walking-where-jesus-walked-american-christians-and-holy-land-pilgrimage-hardback-9780814738368","title":"Walking Where Jesus Walked; American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage (Hardback) 9780814738368","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWalking Where Jesus Walked\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAmerican Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHillary Kaell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780814738368\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 July 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.3 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This book shows us how Holy Land pilgrimage is embedded in the everyday lives of pilgrims, before and after their trip. But it also does much more. We learn how the Holy Land occupies a powerful place in the American religious imagination, and examine what it means to be Protestant or Catholic in an age of contested modernity.\" - Simon Coleman,University of Toronto \"With this fine book, readers are treated to a fascinating intellectual journey, following American Catholics and Protestants on pilgrimage, in quest of the place where Jesus walked. Kaell's ethnography reveals who they are, why they go, and what they find. Her answers illuminate the rich intercultural, commercial, and sensory encounters that organize the modern pilgrim's experience. Bolstered by a solid sense of history, clear prose, and an eye for the telling detail, Kaell's account richly contributes to the interdisciplinary study of American religion.\" - David Morgan,Duke University \"Offers an intimate and searching account of the experience of contemporary American Protestant and Catholic pilgrims to the Holy Land. Kaell made the journeys with them, beginning in their homes as they made the decision to go, and her attentiveness to what the pilgrimsin particular the older women who comprise the majority of such tour groupstold her en route about their lives, their fears and their hopes, gives the book an extraordinary depth of analysis and understanding. Because pilgrims travels are always as much internal as they are geographical, Walking Where Jesus Walked opens out to examine important questions concerning how women in the United States confront issues of aging, loss, sickness, and shifting family roles and responsibilities. Written with exceptional narrative grace and critical insight, this book is a model of ethnographic research in the study of religion.\" - Robert A. Orsi,Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies, Northwestern University \"Afascinating and sensitive look at Catholic and Evangelical Protestant travelers to the biblical origin of their faith.\" (Marginalia Review of Books) \"Hillary KaellsWalking Where Jesus Walkedsheds a fascinating light on the individual experiences of Christian pilgrims from the United States as they travel to the Holy Land of Israel and the Palestinian territories and return home.\" (American Ethnologist) \"Clearly its strengths lie not in generalization or the sociological big picture, but in the personal accounts, richly presented, empathetically caught, and traced over several years with a number of individuals, which form its substance. The result is a revealing, sometimes moving portrait of confronting the \u0026amp; other and making sense of the events of life in relation to that.\" (Catholic Historical Review) \"Kaell assembles a thoughtful, well-written, and well-argued study of Christian pilgrimage in the modern US.\" (Choice)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563865796888,"sku":"9780814738368","price":49.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/walking-where-jesus-walked-american-christians-and-holy-land-pilgrimage-hardback-9780814738368","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}