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Inventing the Holy Land: American Protestant Pilgrimage to Palestine, 1865-1941

Inventing the Holy Land: American Protestant Pilgrimage to Palestine, 1865-1941

Hardcover

Religion General General Christianity

ISBN10: 0739148427
ISBN13: 9780739148426
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jan 6 2011
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This book presents a historical study of the phenomenon of Holy Land tourism among American Protestants during the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. During this period, overseas travel was newly available to the Protestant middle class due to the invention and steady popularization of steamship travel. Protestants at home in America consumed vast quantities of printed literature via the popular medium of Holy Land pilgrimage narratives. A new mental geography resulted, in which Americans forged a fresh awareness of the Middle East and began to focus millennial hopes upon the political and social concept of a Jewish remnant of the last days in a Protestant theological and historical framework. Protestant support for Zionism was born.

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