Sanctifying the Settler-Colonial Gaze: Nineteenth-Century American Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land

American Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land started within a historical and ideological context shaped by American territorial expansionism. The settler-colonial impulses informing that expansionism were carried to Palestine, where Palestinians were encountered as “savages” compared explicitly to...

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1. VerfasserIn: Smith, Robert O. 1974- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Sage Publ. [2018]
In: Theology today
Jahr: 2018, Band: 74, Heft: 4, Seiten: 365-375
IxTheo Notationen:CD Christentum und Kultur
KAH Kirchengeschichte 1648-1913; Neuzeit
KBL Naher Osten; Nordafrika
KBQ Nordamerika
KCD Hagiographie; Heilige
weitere Schlagwörter:B Manifest Destiny
B American expansionism
B Holy Land
B Pilgrimage
B Settler Colonialism
B PILGRIMS & pilgrimages
B Mark Twain
B AMERICAN Christian missions
B Herman Melville
B Israel
B Palestine
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Zusammenfassung:American Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land started within a historical and ideological context shaped by American territorial expansionism. The settler-colonial impulses informing that expansionism were carried to Palestine, where Palestinians were encountered as “savages” compared explicitly to American Indians. Erasure of the Holy Land's Indigenous inhabitants is thus sanctioned. Herman Melville's Clarel and Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad record this encounter. We must be aware of this history if it is not to be repeated in contemporary pilgrimage practices.
ISSN:2044-2556
Enthält:Enthalten in: Theology today
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0040573617731715