234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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Contemporary tourism and travel have become a form of religion, a new opiate of the masses. However, could Church and theology be religious forms of tourism and travel? 'Bibles and Baedekers' offers a theology of tourism and exile for a modern and postmodern world. It examines the ways in which location, identity and movement have made use of religious texts and metaphor and questions the relative... Read more
Introduction Chapter 1: The Tourist: Popular Piety and Practice as a Package Deal Chapter 2: The Traveller: Modernist and Orthodox Theology as Interpretive Experience Chapter 3: The Exile: This Location = Dislocation Chapter 4: No City of God… Chapter 5: Rethinking Location and Christology Conclusion
Biography
Michael Grimshaw
