Bible and Global Tourism

James S. Bielo is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Miami University, Ohio, USA.Lieke Wijnia is curator at Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

The Bible and Global Tourism takes a fresh look at the cross-fertilization of tourism and pilgrimage through tourists’ dynamic engagements with scripture and associated traditions. In a series of fascinating examples from the United States, western Europe, and the Mediterranean, its chapters build a case for rethinking ‘secularization,’ in Europe in particular, by recognizing how tourism can create new and diverse faces for religious practice.

• List of ContributorsIntroduction – Lieke Wijnia, Museum Catharijneconvent, The Netherlands., the Netherlands and James S. Bielo, Miami University, USAPart One: Bridging Past and PresentChapter 1: Nazareth In Pewter: Pilgrims’ Badges of Loreto, Walsingham and Wavre – Hanneke van Asperen, Radboud University, the NetherlandsChapter 2: Blinded by Their Zeal”: Guide Books to the Holy land - Jack Kugelmass, University of Florida, USAChapter 3: Back to the Garden: Bringing Visitors to American Edens, 1885-1956 - Brook Wilensky-Lanford, University of North Carolina, USAPart Two: Performing the BibleChapter 4: The Latter-day Saints, the Bible, and Tourism - Daniel Olsen, Brigham Young University, USA and George A. Pierce, Brigham Young University, USAChapter 5: Looking for a Miracle: Tourism, Tanya and Theurgy at the Grave of the ‘Late’ Lubavitcher Rebbe - Simon Dein, University of London, UKChapter 6: Media Pilgrimage: the Stories that Shape the Modern Camino de Santiago - Suzanne van der Beek, Tilburg University the NetherlandsChapter 7: Cultural-Religious Routes and their Tourism Valorization: In the “Footsteps of the Apostle Paul in Greece” - Polyxeni Moira, Piraeus University of Applied Sciences, GreecePart Three: HeritagizationChapter 8: Bible Museums - Crispin Paine, University College London, UKChapter 9: Rewriting the Bible: The Visual Culture of Creation Science - Larisssa Carneiro, Duke University, USAChapter 10: Music, Scripture and the Sacred: Negotiating the Postsecular at a Dutch Arts Festival - Lieke Wijnia, Museum Catharijneconvent, the NetherlandsChapter 11: Building on the Gospel: the Moravian Settlement at Christiansfeld - Marie Vejrup Nielsen, Aarhus University, DenmarkAfterword - James S. Bielo, Miami University, USAIndex