Selling Jerusalem : relics, replicas, theme parks /

Wharton, Annabel Jane,

Selling Jerusalem : relics, replicas, theme parks / [print] Annabel Jane Wharton. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, (c)2006. - xi, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.



Introduction: project, keywords, debts -- Fragmented Jerusalem : city as gift -- Replicated Jerusalem : temple, templars, and primitive accumulation -- Fabricated Jerusalem : Franciscans and pious mountains -- Mechanically reproduced Jerusalem : entrepreneurs and tourists -- Spectacularized Jerusalem : imperialism, globalization, and the Holy Land as theme park -- Conclusion: illusion and immateriality.



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Templars.
Franciscans.


Popular culture--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Relics--Jerusalem.

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