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.

• 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

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.