Bibles and Baedekers : tourism, travel, exile and God /
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| Author / Creator: | Grimshaw, Mike, 1967- |
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| Imprint: | London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2008. |
| Description: | viii, 225 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross cultural theologies |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7476226 |
| Summary: | 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 absence of secular texts and ideas in theology. The theology of the tourist and traveller is one of new experiences, the acquisition of identity through movement. 'Bibles and Baedekers' uniquely applies this to the postmodern Christian, embodying the fulfilment of Bonhoeffer's 'religionless Christianity', dislocated from both a secular and 'religious' world. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 225 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-218) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1845530683 9781845530686 1845530691 9781845530693 |
