Bibles and Baedekers: Tourism, Travel, Exile and God

Mike Grimshaw

Bibles and Baedekers

Tourism, Travel, Exile and God

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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 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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Bibles and Baedekers

Tourism, Travel, Exile and God

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Foreword
pp vii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-14

Chapter 1 - The Tourist: Popular Piety and Practice as a Package Deal
pp 15-41

Chapter 2 - The Traveller: Modernist and Orthodox Theology as Interpretative Experience
pp 42-73

Chapter 3 - The Exile: This Location = Dislocation
pp 74-102

Chapter 4 - No City of God…
pp 103-134

Chapter 5 - Rethinking Location and Christology
pp 135-160

Conclusion
pp 161-172

Notes
pp 173-205

Bibliography
pp 206-218

Index of Authors
pp 219-221

Index of Subjects
pp 222-225

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