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Imagining the Holy Land – Maps, Models, and Fantasy Travels

Autor Burke O. Long
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 dec 2002
The photographs, maps, travelers’ accounts, and physical reconstructions that are the subject of this book once fired the popular imagination with fantasies of a place called “the Holy Land.” It was a singular space of religious imagining, multilayered and charged with symbolism. As Burke O. Long shows, there are many holy lands, and they have been visualized in many ways since the 19th century. At the Chautauqua Institute in New York, visitors could walk down Palestine Avenue to “Palestine” and a model of Jerusalem, or along North Avenue to a scale model of the “Jewish Tabernacle.” At the St. Louis World’s Fair of 1904, a replica of Ottoman Jerusalem covered 11 acres, while 300 miles to the southeast a seven-story-high Christ of the Ozarks stood above a modern re-creation of the Holy Land set in the Arkansas hills. For home viewing, there were tours of the Holy Land via stereoscopic photographs, books such as Picturesque Palestine, and numerous accounts by travelers whose visions of the Holy Land shaped and were shaped by American forms of Christianity and Judaism.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253341365
ISBN-10: 0253341361
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 164 x 241 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Ediția:5
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press

Cuprins

Introduction1. Lakeside at Chautauqua's Holy Land2. Starred and Striped Holy Lands3. Parlor Tours of the Holy Land4. Landscapes of Democracy5. Mapmakers and Their Holy LandsEpilogue: A Touch of the RealSelect Bibliography; Index

Notă biografică

Burke O. Long

Descriere

How the Holy Land became a site for American piety and sentimental religious imagining