{"product_id":"walking-where-jesus-walked-2","title":"Walking Where Jesus Walked","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince\u003cbr\u003e\nthe 1950s, millions of American Christians have traveled to the Holy Land to\u003cbr\u003e\nvisit places in Israel and the Palestinian territories associated with Jesus’s life\u003cbr\u003e\nand death. Why do these pilgrims choose to journey\u003cbr\u003e\nhalfway around the world? How do\u003cbr\u003e\nthey react to what they encounter, and how do\u003cbr\u003e\nthey understand the trip upon return? This book places the\u003cbr\u003e\nanswers to these questions into the context of broad historical trends, analyzing how\u003cbr\u003e\nthe growth of mass-market evangelical and Catholic pilgrimage\u003cbr\u003e\nrelates to changes in American Christian\u003cbr\u003e\ntheology and culture over the last sixty years,\u003cbr\u003e\nincluding shifts in Jewish-Christian relations, the growth of small group spirituality, and the development of a Christian\u003cbr\u003e\nleisure industry.\u003cbr\u003e\nDrawing on five years\u003cbr\u003e\nof research with pilgrims before, during and after their trips, Walking Where Jesus Walked offers a lived religion approach that\u003cbr\u003e\nexplores the trip’s hybrid nature for pilgrims themselves: both ordinary—tied\u003cbr\u003e\nto their everyday role as the family’s ritual specialists, and\u003cbr\u003e\nextraordinary—since they leave home in a dramatic way, often for the first\u003cbr\u003e\ntime. Their experiences illuminate key tensions in contemporary US Christianity\u003cbr\u003e\nbetween material evidence and transcendent divinity, commoditization and\u003cbr\u003e\nreligious authority, domestic relationships and global experience.\u003cbr\u003e\nHillary Kaell crafts the first in-depth study of the\u003cbr\u003e\ncultural and religious significance of American Holy Land pilgrimage after\u003cbr\u003e\n1948. The result sheds light on how Christian pilgrims, especially women, make\u003cbr\u003e\nsense of their experience in Israel-Palestine, offering an important complement\u003cbr\u003e\nto top-down approaches in studies of Christian Zionism and foreign policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Hillary Kaell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43572256374966,"sku":"9780814771747","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780814771747.jpg?v=1712114502","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/walking-where-jesus-walked-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}