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Author_Michael Grimshaw
Axis Mundi
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christianity
Common Language
Contemporary Society
Diasporic Sensibility
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Exilic Position
Global Soul
identity formation travel
Imago Dei
Le Corbusier
Lightening Flashes
Liminal Being
liminality in modernity
Modern Travel Writers
piety
popular
Popular Piety
postmodern
Postmodern Theologian
postsecular religious studies
reading
religionless
Religionless Christianity
religious displacement studies
Retro Modernism
sacred space theory
secular
Secular Christianity
Secular City
Secular Theology
soft
Soft Modernism
strategy
Term Rupture
theologian
Theological Trope
theology of mobility
theology of travel and exile
Tourist Gaze
Travel Text
Travel Writer
Unnecessary Ornamentation
Product details
- ISBN 9781845530686
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 19 Aug 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Michael Grimshaw is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has co-edited two volumes of New Zealand spiritual verse and published on the intersections of religion and contemporary culture. His research focuses on issues of location, identity and representation in postmodernity.
