Inventing the Holy Land: American Protestant Pilgrimage to Palestine, 1865-1941

ISBN-13: 9780739148426 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 174 str.

Stephanie Stidham Rogers

Opis

This book examines the relationship between American Protestants and Palestine from 1842-1917. The eastward views of Palestine drew the ancient biblical past into the present for Protestants, thus bringing a sharper focus to a new frontier and inventing the idea of a Christian Holy Land.