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Christian tourist attractions, mythmaking, and identity formation / edited by Erin Roberts and Jennifer Eyl.

Other author/creatorRoberts, Erin (Assistant Professor in Religious Studies)
Other author/creatorEyl, Jennifer.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoNew York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Descriptionpages cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series Critiquing religion: discourse, culture, power
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018009330
ISBN9781350006232 (hardback)

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