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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Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
Язык: | Английский |
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Sage Publ.
[2018]
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Theology today
Год: 2018, Том: 74, Выпуск: 4, Страницы: 365-375 |
Индексация IxTheo: | CD Христианство и культура KAH Новое время KBL Ближний Восток KBQ Северная Америка KCD Агиография |
Другие ключевые слова: | B
Manifest Destiny
B American expansionism B Holy Land B Израиль (мотив) B Pilgrimage B Settler Colonialism B PILGRIMS & pilgrimages B Mark Twain B AMERICAN Christian missions B Herman Melville B Palestine |
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Итог: | 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. |
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ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0040573617731715 |