Bibliography (updated: January 2023)
Ark Encounter (Williamstown, Kentucky)
Bielo, James S. 2014. Making a Biblical Theme Park. The Immanent Frame, August.
---. 2015. Literally Creative: Intertextual Gaps and Artistic Agency. In Scripturalizing the Human: The Written as the Political. Edited by Vincent L. Wimbush, 20-34. New York: Routledge.
---. 2017. Replication as Religious Practice, Temporality as Religious Problem. History & Anthropology 28(2): 131-148.
---. 2017. Literalism as Creativity: Making a Creationist Theme Park, Reassessing a Scriptural Ideology. In The Bible in American Life. Philip Goff, Arthur E. Farnsley II, and Peter J. Theusen, eds. 292-304. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
---. 2017. The Plausibility of Immersion: Limits and Creativity in Materializing the Bible. In Christianity and the Limits of Materiality. Minna Opas and Anna Haapalainen, eds. 122-140. London: Bloomsbury.
---. 2018. Providence and Publicity in Waiting for a Creationist Theme Park. In Ethnographies of Waiting: Doubt, Hope, and Uncertainty. Manpreet K. Janeja and Andreas Bandak, eds. 139-162. London: Bloomsbury.
---. 2018. Ark Encounter: The Making of a Creationist Theme Park. New York: NYU Press.
---. 2018. Fun-Damentalism: "As-If" Experiences at a Creationist Theme Park. In Enjoying Religion: Pleasure and Fun in Established and New Religious Movements. Edited by Frans Jespers, Karin van Nieuwkerk, and Paul van der Velde, 39-62. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
---. 2019. The Materiality of Myth: Authorizing Fundamentalism at Ark Encounter. In Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation. Edited by Erin Roberts and Jennifer Eyl, 43-57. London: Bloomsbury
Bloomfield, Emma Frances. 2017. Ark Encounter as Material Apocalyptic Rhetoric: Contemporary Creationist Strategies On Board Noah's Ark. Southern Communication Journal (Online First, August)
Ave Maria Grotto (Cullman, Alabama)
Bielo, James S. 2019. On Innovation. The Jugaad Project: Material Religion in Context (December)
BibleWalk (Mansfield, Ohio)
Eyl, Jennifer. 2019. Anachronism as a Constituent Feature of Mythmaking at the BibleWalk Museum. In Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation. Edited by Erin Roberts and Jennifer Eyl, 111-126. London: Bloomsbury
Biblical Gardens
Bielo, James S. 2017. Biblical Gardens and the Sensuality of Religious Pedagogy. Material Religion 14(1): 30-54.
Trojanowska, Monika. 2022. Biblical Gardens and the Resilience of Cultural Landscapes: A Case Study of Gdansk, Poland. Land 12(1): 1-29.
Bijbels Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
van der Meer, Michael. 2010. The Biblical Museum, Amsterdam. Material Religion 6(1): 132-135.
Creation Museum (Petersburg, Kentucky)
Asma, Stephen. 2011. Risen Apes and Fallen Angels: The new museology of human origins. Curator 54(2): 141-163.
Bielo, James S. 2016. Creationist History-Making: Producing a Heterodox Past. In Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices. Jeb J. Card and David S. Anderson, eds, 81-101. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press.
Carneiro, Larissa. 2017. Emulating Science: The Rhetorical Figures of Creationism. Journal for Religion, Film, and Media 3(2): 53-64.
Barton, Bernadette. 2012. "Prepare to Believe": The Creation Museum. In Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays. New York: NYU Press.
Butler, Ella. 2010. God is in the Data: Epistemologies of knowledge at the Creation Museum. Ethnos 75(3): 229-251.
Fletcher, John. 2013. Prepare to Believe: Performing the evangelical worldview at the Creation Museum. In Preaching to Convert: Evangelical Outreach and Performance Activism in a Secular Age. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Hege, Brent. 2014. Contesting Faith, Truth, and Religious Language at the Creation Museum: A Historical-Theological Reflection. Theology and Science 12(2): 142-163.
Kelly, Casey Ryan and Kristen H. Hoerl. 2012. Genesis in Hyperreality: Legitimizing Disingenuous Controversy at the Creation Museum. Argumentation and Advocacy 48(3): 123-141.
Long, David E. 2010. Scientists at play in a field of the Lord. Cultural Studies of Science Education 5: 213-235.
Lynch, John. 2013. "Prepare to Believe": the Creation Museum as embodied conversion narrative. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 16(1): 1-28.
Nash, Dustin. 2019. Fossilized Jews and Witnessing Dinosaurs at the Creation Museum: Public Remembering and Forgetting at a Young Earth Creationist "Memory Place." Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 14(1)
Oberlin, Kathleen C. 2014. Mobilizing Epistemic Conflict: The Creation Museum and the Creationist Social Movement. Doctoral Dissertation, Dept. of Sociology. Bloomington, IN: Indian University.
Spalink, Angenette and Scott Maggelsen. 2015. "Performing Speciation: The Nature/Culture Divide at the Creation Museum. In Theatre/Performance Historiography: Time, Space, Matter. Edited by Rosemarie Bank and Michal Kobialka, 17-40. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Steller, Jeffrey. 2015. The Creationist Tales: Understanding a Postmodern Museum Pilgrimage. In The Changing World Religion Map. Edited by Stanley D. Brunn, 2541-2561. Springer.
Stephens, Randall J. and Karl W. Giberson. 2011. The Answer Man. In The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Stevenson, Jill. 2012. Embodying Sacred History: Performing Creationism for Believers. TDR/The Drama Review 56(1): 93-113.
Trollinger, Susan L. and William V. Trollinger, Jr. 2016. Righting America at the Creation Museum. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
---. 2017. The Bible and Creationism. In The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America. Edited by Paul Gutjahr, 216-228. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Watkins, Steve. 2013. Dragon Snakes and Fictitious Grapes: What happens when myths are literalized. The Fourth R 26(2): 6-8
---. 2014. An Analysis of the Creation Museum: Hermeneutics, Language, and Information Theory. Doctoral Dissertation, Dept. of Humanities. Louisville, KY: University of Louisville.
---. 2019. Rival Epistemologies and Constructed Confusion at the Creation Museum. In Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation. Edited by Erin Roberts and Jennifer Eyl, 59-78. London: Bloomsbury
Creation Museum (Lynchburg, Virginia)
Harding, Susan F. 2000. The Creation Museum. In The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Creation Museums (multiple sites)
Barone, Lindsay Marie. 2015. The New Pulpit: Museums, Authority, and the Cultural Reproduction of Young-Earth Creationism. Doctoral Dissertation, Dept. of Anthropology. Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Carneiro, Larissa Soares. 2016. Divine Technology: How God Created Dinosaurs and People. Doctoral Dissertation, Dept. of Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital media. Raleigh: North Carolina State University.
Duncan, Julie Anne. 2009. Faith Displayed as Science: The Role of the "Creation Museum" in the Modern American Creationist Movement. Masters Thesis, Dept. of the History of Science. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.
Homchick, Julie. 2009. Displaying Controversy: Evolution, creation, and museums. Doctoral Dissertation, Dept. of Communication. Seattle, WA: University of Washington
See also: bibliography on the creationist movement by Dr. James Linville (University of Lethbridge)
Garden of Hope (Covington, Kentucky)
Bielo, James S. 2018. Flower, Soil, Water, Stone: Biblical Landscape Items and Protestant Materiality. Journal of Material Culture 23(3): 368-387.
---. 2019. "Where Prayers May Be Whispered": Promises of Presence in Protestant Place-Making. Ethnos (Online first, April).
Holy Land Experience (Orlando, Florida)
Bielo, James S. 2014. When Prayers Become Things. The Materiality of Prayer.
Bielo, James S. and Jana Mathews. 2022. Orlando's Holy Land Experience Closed in 2021 After 20 Years: Does It Matter? The Commons (online, August).
Branham, Joan. 2008. The Temple That Won't Quit: Constructing sacred space in Orlando's Holy Land theme park. Harvard Divinity Bulletin 36(3): 18-31.
Brehm, Stephanie. 2011. "Shalom, God Bless, and Please Exit to the Right": A Cultural Ethnography of the Holy Land Experience. Masters Thesis, Dept. of Comparative Religion. Oxford, OH: Miami University.
Crockett, David and Lenita Davis. 2016. Commercial mythmaking at the Holy Land Experience. Consumption Markets & Culture 19(2): 206-227.
Lukens-Bull, Ronald and Mark Fafard. 2007. Next Year in Orlando: (Re)creating Israel in Christian Zionism. Journal of Religion and Society 9:1-20.
Mathews, Jana. 2015. Theme Park Bibles: Trinity Broadcasting Network's Holy Land Experience and the Evangelical Use of the Documentary Past. Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 27(2): 89-104.
Roberts, Erin. 2019. Embodied Mythic Formation at the Holy Land Experience. In Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation. Edited by Erin Roberts and Jennifer Eyl, 127-144. London: Bloomsbury
Rowan, Yorke. 2004. Repacking the Pilgrimage: Visiting the Holy Land in Orlando. In Marketing Heritage: Archaeology and the Consumption of the Past. Edited by Yorke Rowan and Uzi Baram, 249-266. Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Press.
Holy Land of America (Washington, D.C.)
Klatzker, David. 2002. The Franciscan Monastery of Washington DC: The Holy Land of America. In America and Zion: Essays and Papers in Memory of Moshe Davis, edited by Eli Lederhendler and Jonathan Sarna, 243-54. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press.
Holy Land (Ocean Grove, New Jersey)
Messenger, Troy. 1999. Holy Leisure: Recreation and Religion in God's Square Mile. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Holy Land at 1904 World's Fair (St. Louis, Missouri)
Feldman, Keith P. 2016. Seeing is Believing: U.S. Imperial Culture and the Jerusalem Exhibit of 1904. Studies in American Jewish Literature 35(1): 99-118.
Rubin, Rehav. 2000. When Jerusalem was Built in St. Louis: A large scale model of Jerusalem in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 132(1): 59-70.
Shamir, Milette. 2012. Back to the Future: The Jerusalem exhibit at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. Journal of Levantine Studies 2(1): 93-113.
Jewish Children's Museum (New York City, NY)
Fader, Ayala, Henry Goldschmidt, Samuel Heilman, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Paul Rosenthal, and Jeffrey Shandler. 2007. Jewish Children's Museum: A Virtual Roundtable on Material Religion. Material Religion 3(3): 404-27.
Museum of the Bible (Washington, D.C.)
Bielo, James S. 2019. Quality: D.C.'s Museum of the Bible and Aesthetic Evaluation. Material Religion (Online First, January 31).
---. 2019. Like-able Me, Like-able There. American Religion (December)
---. 2020. Experiential Design and Religious Publicity at D.C.'s Museum of the Bible. The Senses and Society 15(1): 98-113.
---. 2022. The Magic of Science and the Science of Magic in Evangelical Publicity. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 17(2): 173-82.
Chancey, Mark. 2017. When Hobby Lobby Tours the Holy Land: The Back Story of Passages, Museum of the Bible's Christian Zionist Pilgrimage. The Bible & Interpretation, September.
Gannon, Kelly and Kimberly Wagner. 2018. Museum of the Bible, Washington D.C. The Journal of American History 105(3): 618-625.
Hicks-Keeton, Jill. 2017. Can Scripture "Speak for Itself"? A Look Inside the Museum of the Bible. Religion & Politics, November 17.
---. 2018. What the Museum of the Bible Conveys About Biblical Scholarship Behind Church Doors. Religion & Politics, March 13.
---. 2018. The Museum of Whose Bible? On the Perils of Turning Theology into History. Ancient Jew Review (online, January)
Hicks-Keeton, Jill and Cavan Concannon. 2018. "Squint against the grandeur!": Waiting for Jesus at the Museum of the Bible. The Bible & Critical Theory 14(2): 1-16.
---. 2019. On Good Government and Good Girls: How the Museum of the Bible's Founding Family Turned Themselves into Biblical Experts. The Revealer (online, March 20).
---. 2022. Does Scripture Speak for Itself? The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hicks-Keeton, Jill and Cavan Concannon, eds. 2019. The Museum of the Bible: A Critical Introduction. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
Lindsey, Rachel McBride. 2014. Passages: A Glimpse into the Hobby Lobby Family's Bible Museum. Religion & Politics (online, September).
Linville, James. 2018. The Creationist MOTB: Judaism and Judaica at the Answers in Genesis Creationist Facilities. Ancient Jew Review (online, January)
Mathews, Jana. 2019. The Museum of the Bible's "fake" history of the Bible. Material Religion (Online first, February).
Moss, Candida R. and Joel S. Baden. 2017. Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Porter, Sarah. 2018. Incompatible Sites: The Land of Israel and the Ambulant Body in the Museum of the Bible. Ancient Jew Review (online, January)
Stevenson, Jill. 2019. Narrative space: performing progress at the Museum of the Bible. Material Religion (Online first, February).
Young, Stephen L. 2019. The Museum of the Bible: Promoting Biblical Exceptionalism to Naturalize an Evangelical America. In Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation. Erin Roberts and Jennifer Eyl, eds. 25-42. London: Bloomsbury.
Nazareth Village (Nazareth, Israel)
Feldman, Jackie. 2016. A Jewish Guide in the Holy Land: How Christian Pilgrims Made Me Israeli. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (pp. 24, 42-43)
Rose, Lena. 2020. Nazareth Village and the Creation of the Holy Land in Israel-Palestine. Current Anthropology (Online First, May).
Neot Kedumim (Lod, Israel)
Alon-Mozes, Tal. 2013. Landscape as a national text: the biblical landscape reserve of Neot Kedumim. Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes: An International Quarterly 33(4): 1-16.
Mitchell, W.J.T. 2000. Holy Landscape: Israel, Palestine, and the American Wilderness. Critical Inquiry 26(2): 193-223.
Noah's Ark (Hong Kong, China)
Goh, Robbie B.H. 2014. Noah's Ark: Evangelical Christianity and the creation of a values environment in Hong Kong. Material Religion 10(2): 208-233.
Palestine Park (Chautauqua, New York)
Davis, John. 1992. Holy Land, Holy People? Photography, Semitic Wannabes, and Chautauqua's Palestine Park. Prospects 17: 241-72.
Long, Burke O. 2001. Lakeside at Chautauqua's Holy Land. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 92: 29-53.
Passion Play at Oberammergau (Oberammergau, Germany)
Morgan, David. 2007. "Passion Plays," from Chapter 6: Seeing in Public. In The Lure of Images. London: Routledge.
Shapiro, James. 2007. Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play. New York: Vintage.
Stevenson, Jill. 2015. Affect, Medievalism and Temporal Drag: Oberammergau's Passion Play Event. In The Changing World Religion Map. Edited by Stanley D. Brunn. Springer: 2491-2515.
Passion Plays (other)
Bautista, Julius. 2017. Hesukristo superstar: Entrusted agency and passion rituals in the Roman Catholic Philippines. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 28: 152-64.
---. 2018. On the Anthropology and Theology of Roman Catholic Rituals in the Philippines. International Journal of Asian Christianity 1: 143-56.
---. 2019. The Way of the Cross: Suffering Selfhoods in the Roman Catholic Philippines. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Choi, Seokhun. 2012. Performing the Passion of Christ in Postmodernity: American passion/Passion Plays as Ritual and Postmodern Theatre. Doctoral Dissertation, Dept. of Theatre. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas.
Haapalainen, Anna. 2017. Humanizing the Bible: Limits of Materiality in a Passion Play. In Christianity and the Limits of Materiality, edited by Minna Opas and Anna Haapalainen, 141-162. London: Bloomsbury.
Jeansonne, Glen. 1988. Chapter 11: The Sacred Projects. In Gerald L.K. Smith: Minister of Hate, 188-205. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Jones, Megan Sanborn. 2016. Testimony in the muscles, in the body: Proxy performances at the Mesa Easter Pageant. Mormon Studies Review 3: 11-18.
Monk, Charlene Faye. 1998. Passion Plays in the United States: The Contemporary Outdoor Tradition. Doctoral Dissertation, Dept. of Theatre. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University.
Mussler, Charles. 1993. Passions and the passion play: theatre, film and religion in America, 1880-1900. Film History 5: 419-456.
Sponsler, Claire. 2004. Chapter 5: American Passion Plays. In Ritual Imports: Performing Medieval Drama in America, 123-55. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Trexler, Richard C. 2003. Reliving Golgotha: The Passion Play of Iztapalapa. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Sacred Mount of Varallo (Varallo, Italy)
Afferni, Raffaella, Carla Ferrario, and Stefania Mangano. 2011. A place of emotions: The sacred mount of Varallo. Tourism 59(3): 369-386.
Freedberg, David. 1989. "Verisimilitude and Resemblance: From Sacred Mountain to Waxworks." In The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Gelfand, Laura D. 2012. Sense and Simulacra: Manipulation of the senses in medieval 'copies' of Jerusalem. Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies 3(4): 407-422.
Gottler, Christine. 2012. “The Temptation of the Senses at the Sacro Monti di Varallo.” In Religion and the Senses in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Wietse Boer and Christine Gottler, 393-451. Leiden: Brill.
Hood, William. 1984. "The Sacro Monte of Varallo: Renaissance Art and Popular Religion." In Monasticism and the Arts, edited by Timothy Gregory Verdon, 291-311. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
Lasansky, D. Medina. 2017. The "Catholic Grotesque" at the Sacro Monte of Varallo: the Protestant aversion to a graphic space during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Senses and Society 12(3): 317-332.
Leatherbarrow, David. 1987. The Image and Its Setting: A Study of the Sacro Monte at Varallo. RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 14: 107-122.
Nova, Alessandro. 1995. “‘Popular’ Art in Renaissance Italy: Early Response to the Holy Mountain at Varallo.” In Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America, 1450-1650. Edited by Claire Farago, 113-126. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Terry-Fritsch, Allie. 2014. Performing the Renaissance Body and Mind: Somaesthetic Style and Devotional Practice at the Sacro Monte de Varallo. Open Arts Journal 4: 111-132.
Saint Anne de Beaupre (Saint Anne de Beaupre, Quebec, Canada)
Anderson, Emma. 2017. Pilgrims' Presence: Catholic Community in Quebec. In Everyday Sacred: Religion in Contemporary Quebec. Hillary Kaell, ed. 156-85. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
Hufford, David J. 1985. Ste. Anne de Beaupre: Roman Catholic Pilgrimage and Healing. Western Folklore 44(3): 194-207.
Williams, Allison. 2010. Spiritual therapeutic landscapes and healing: A case study of St. Anne de Beaupre, Quebec, Canada. Social Science & Medicine 70:1633-1640.
Salvation Mountain (Niland, California)
Patterson, Sara M. 2016. Middle of Nowhere: Religion, Art, and Pop Culture at Salvation Mountain. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Promey, Sally M. 2018. Testimonial aesthetics and public display. The Immanent Frame (Online, February).
Santo Stefano (Bologna, Italy)
Ousterhout, Robert G. 1981. The Church of Santo Stefano: A "Jerusalem" in Bologna. Gesta 20(2): 311-321.
Solomon's Temple (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Bielo, James S. 2018. Materializing the Bible in the Global South. In Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South. Mark A. Lamport, ed. 494-496. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Tabernacle Experience (mobile exhibit)
Homrighausen, Jonathan. 2016. The Jewish Jesus in the California Desert: A Report from the Tabernacle Experience. Interfaith Observer, online.
Temple Institute (Jerusalem, Israel)
Cohen-Aharoni, Yemima. 2017. Guiding the 'real' Temple: the construction of authenticity in heritage sites in a state of absence and distance. Annals of Tourism Research 63: 73-82.
Walsingham National Shrine (Walsingham, England)
Coleman, Simon. 2000. Meaning of Movement: Home and Place at Walsingham. Culture and Religion 1(2): 153-169.
---. 2004. Pilgrimage to "England's Nazareth": Landscapes of Myth and Memory at Walsingham. In Intersecting Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage and Tourism, 52-67. Edited by Ellen Badone and Sharon Roseman. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press.
---. 2004. From England's Nazareth to Sweden's Jerusalem: movement, (virtual) landscapes and pilgrimage. In Reframing Pilgrimage: Cultures in Motion, edited by Simon Coleman and John Eade, 45-68. London: Routledge.
---. 2005. Putting it all together again: healing and incarnation in Walsingham. In Pilgrimage and Healing. Edited by J. Dubisch and M. Winkelman, 91-110. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
---. 2012. Memory as Absence and Presence: Pilgrimage, "Archaeo-Theology," and the Creativity of Destruction. Journeys 13(1):1-20.
---. 2013. Ritual Remains: Studying Contemporary Pilgrimage. In A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion. Edited by Janice Boddy and Michael Lambek, 294-308. London: Wiley-Blackwell.
---. 2014. Pilgrimage as Trope for an Anthropology of Christianity. Current Anthropology 55(s10): s281-s291.
---. 2015. Purity as Danger? Seduction and Sexuality at Walsingham. In The Seductions of Pilgrimage: sacred journeys afar and astray in the western religious tradition. Michael A. DiGiovine and David Picard, eds. 53-70. London: Ashgate.
Coleman, Simon and John Elsner. 1998. Performing Pilgrimage: Walsingham and the Ritual Construction of Irony. In Ritual, Performance, Media, edited by F. Hughes-Freeland, 46-65. London: Routledge.
---. 2004. Tradition as Play: Pilgrimage to "England's Nazareth." History and Anthropology 15(3): 273-88.
Dickinson, J.C. 1956. The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Janes, D. and G. Waller, eds. 2016. Walsingham in Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to Modernity. London: Routledge.
Turner, Victor and Edith Turner. 1978. Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture. New York: Columbia University Press.
Waller, G. 2011. Walsingham and the English Imagination. Farnham: Ashgate.
Wycliffe Discovery Center (Orlando, Florida)
Shani, Amir, Manuel Antonio Rivera and Denver Severt. 2007. "To Bring God's Word to all People": The case of a religious theme site. Tourism 55(1): 39-50.
Multiple attractions
Beal, Tim. 2005. Roadside Religion: In Search of the Sacred, the Strange, and the Substance of Faith. Boston: Beacon.
Bielo, James S. 2015. Replicating the Holy Land in the U.S. (a 'Materializing the Bible' road trip). Material Religions (Online, December)
---. 2016. Materializing the Bible: Ethnographic Methods for the Consumption Process. Practical Matters 9: 1-17.
---. 2017. Performing the Bible. In The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America. Paul Gutjahr, ed. 484-503. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
---. 2018. Immersion as shared imperative: entertainment of/in digital scholarship. Religion 48(2): 291-301.
Goh, Robbie B.H. 2017. The Jerusalem of Jesus: space and Pentecostal-evangelical branding in Orlando's Holy Land Experience and Eureka Spring's Holy Land Tour. Culture and Religion 18(3): 296-323.
Grubiak, Margaret M. 2020. Monumental Jesus: Landscapes of Faith and Doubt in Modern America. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.
Kaell, Hillary. 2017. “Museums, Expositions, and Religion in North America since the 19th Century,” In Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion in America, edited by John Corrigan, 1-18. Oxford University Press.
McDowell, Betty. 1982. Religion on the Road: Highway Evangelism and Worship Environments for the Traveler in America. Journal of American Culture 63-74.
Padan, Yael. 2019. Seeing is Believing: miniature and gigantic architectural models of second temple. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change (Online first, January)
Paine, Crispin. 2019. Gods and Rollercoasters: Religion in Theme Parks Worldwide. London: Bloomsbury.
Ron, Amos S. and Dallen J. Timothy. 2019. Contemporary Christian Travel: Pilgrimage, Practice and Place. Bristol, UK: Channel View Publications.
Stausberg, Michael. 2011. Religion and Tourism: Crossroads, Destinations, and Encounters. London: Routledge.
Thomas, Paul. 2020. Storytelling the Bible at the Creation Museum, Ark Encounter, and Museum of the Bible. London: Bloomsbury.
Wharton, Annabel Jane. 2006. Selling Jerusalem: Relics, Replicas, Theme Parks. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Ark Encounter (Williamstown, Kentucky)
Bielo, James S. 2014. Making a Biblical Theme Park. The Immanent Frame, August.
---. 2015. Literally Creative: Intertextual Gaps and Artistic Agency. In Scripturalizing the Human: The Written as the Political. Edited by Vincent L. Wimbush, 20-34. New York: Routledge.
---. 2017. Replication as Religious Practice, Temporality as Religious Problem. History & Anthropology 28(2): 131-148.
---. 2017. Literalism as Creativity: Making a Creationist Theme Park, Reassessing a Scriptural Ideology. In The Bible in American Life. Philip Goff, Arthur E. Farnsley II, and Peter J. Theusen, eds. 292-304. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
---. 2017. The Plausibility of Immersion: Limits and Creativity in Materializing the Bible. In Christianity and the Limits of Materiality. Minna Opas and Anna Haapalainen, eds. 122-140. London: Bloomsbury.
---. 2018. Providence and Publicity in Waiting for a Creationist Theme Park. In Ethnographies of Waiting: Doubt, Hope, and Uncertainty. Manpreet K. Janeja and Andreas Bandak, eds. 139-162. London: Bloomsbury.
---. 2018. Ark Encounter: The Making of a Creationist Theme Park. New York: NYU Press.
---. 2018. Fun-Damentalism: "As-If" Experiences at a Creationist Theme Park. In Enjoying Religion: Pleasure and Fun in Established and New Religious Movements. Edited by Frans Jespers, Karin van Nieuwkerk, and Paul van der Velde, 39-62. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
---. 2019. The Materiality of Myth: Authorizing Fundamentalism at Ark Encounter. In Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation. Edited by Erin Roberts and Jennifer Eyl, 43-57. London: Bloomsbury
Bloomfield, Emma Frances. 2017. Ark Encounter as Material Apocalyptic Rhetoric: Contemporary Creationist Strategies On Board Noah's Ark. Southern Communication Journal (Online First, August)
Ave Maria Grotto (Cullman, Alabama)
Bielo, James S. 2019. On Innovation. The Jugaad Project: Material Religion in Context (December)
BibleWalk (Mansfield, Ohio)
Eyl, Jennifer. 2019. Anachronism as a Constituent Feature of Mythmaking at the BibleWalk Museum. In Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation. Edited by Erin Roberts and Jennifer Eyl, 111-126. London: Bloomsbury
Biblical Gardens
Bielo, James S. 2017. Biblical Gardens and the Sensuality of Religious Pedagogy. Material Religion 14(1): 30-54.
Trojanowska, Monika. 2022. Biblical Gardens and the Resilience of Cultural Landscapes: A Case Study of Gdansk, Poland. Land 12(1): 1-29.
Bijbels Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
van der Meer, Michael. 2010. The Biblical Museum, Amsterdam. Material Religion 6(1): 132-135.
Creation Museum (Petersburg, Kentucky)
Asma, Stephen. 2011. Risen Apes and Fallen Angels: The new museology of human origins. Curator 54(2): 141-163.
Bielo, James S. 2016. Creationist History-Making: Producing a Heterodox Past. In Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices. Jeb J. Card and David S. Anderson, eds, 81-101. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press.
Carneiro, Larissa. 2017. Emulating Science: The Rhetorical Figures of Creationism. Journal for Religion, Film, and Media 3(2): 53-64.
Barton, Bernadette. 2012. "Prepare to Believe": The Creation Museum. In Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays. New York: NYU Press.
Butler, Ella. 2010. God is in the Data: Epistemologies of knowledge at the Creation Museum. Ethnos 75(3): 229-251.
Fletcher, John. 2013. Prepare to Believe: Performing the evangelical worldview at the Creation Museum. In Preaching to Convert: Evangelical Outreach and Performance Activism in a Secular Age. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Hege, Brent. 2014. Contesting Faith, Truth, and Religious Language at the Creation Museum: A Historical-Theological Reflection. Theology and Science 12(2): 142-163.
Kelly, Casey Ryan and Kristen H. Hoerl. 2012. Genesis in Hyperreality: Legitimizing Disingenuous Controversy at the Creation Museum. Argumentation and Advocacy 48(3): 123-141.
Long, David E. 2010. Scientists at play in a field of the Lord. Cultural Studies of Science Education 5: 213-235.
Lynch, John. 2013. "Prepare to Believe": the Creation Museum as embodied conversion narrative. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 16(1): 1-28.
Nash, Dustin. 2019. Fossilized Jews and Witnessing Dinosaurs at the Creation Museum: Public Remembering and Forgetting at a Young Earth Creationist "Memory Place." Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 14(1)
Oberlin, Kathleen C. 2014. Mobilizing Epistemic Conflict: The Creation Museum and the Creationist Social Movement. Doctoral Dissertation, Dept. of Sociology. Bloomington, IN: Indian University.
Spalink, Angenette and Scott Maggelsen. 2015. "Performing Speciation: The Nature/Culture Divide at the Creation Museum. In Theatre/Performance Historiography: Time, Space, Matter. Edited by Rosemarie Bank and Michal Kobialka, 17-40. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Steller, Jeffrey. 2015. The Creationist Tales: Understanding a Postmodern Museum Pilgrimage. In The Changing World Religion Map. Edited by Stanley D. Brunn, 2541-2561. Springer.
Stephens, Randall J. and Karl W. Giberson. 2011. The Answer Man. In The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Stevenson, Jill. 2012. Embodying Sacred History: Performing Creationism for Believers. TDR/The Drama Review 56(1): 93-113.
Trollinger, Susan L. and William V. Trollinger, Jr. 2016. Righting America at the Creation Museum. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
---. 2017. The Bible and Creationism. In The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America. Edited by Paul Gutjahr, 216-228. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Watkins, Steve. 2013. Dragon Snakes and Fictitious Grapes: What happens when myths are literalized. The Fourth R 26(2): 6-8
---. 2014. An Analysis of the Creation Museum: Hermeneutics, Language, and Information Theory. Doctoral Dissertation, Dept. of Humanities. Louisville, KY: University of Louisville.
---. 2019. Rival Epistemologies and Constructed Confusion at the Creation Museum. In Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation. Edited by Erin Roberts and Jennifer Eyl, 59-78. London: Bloomsbury
Creation Museum (Lynchburg, Virginia)
Harding, Susan F. 2000. The Creation Museum. In The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Creation Museums (multiple sites)
Barone, Lindsay Marie. 2015. The New Pulpit: Museums, Authority, and the Cultural Reproduction of Young-Earth Creationism. Doctoral Dissertation, Dept. of Anthropology. Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Carneiro, Larissa Soares. 2016. Divine Technology: How God Created Dinosaurs and People. Doctoral Dissertation, Dept. of Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital media. Raleigh: North Carolina State University.
Duncan, Julie Anne. 2009. Faith Displayed as Science: The Role of the "Creation Museum" in the Modern American Creationist Movement. Masters Thesis, Dept. of the History of Science. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.
Homchick, Julie. 2009. Displaying Controversy: Evolution, creation, and museums. Doctoral Dissertation, Dept. of Communication. Seattle, WA: University of Washington
See also: bibliography on the creationist movement by Dr. James Linville (University of Lethbridge)
Garden of Hope (Covington, Kentucky)
Bielo, James S. 2018. Flower, Soil, Water, Stone: Biblical Landscape Items and Protestant Materiality. Journal of Material Culture 23(3): 368-387.
---. 2019. "Where Prayers May Be Whispered": Promises of Presence in Protestant Place-Making. Ethnos (Online first, April).
Holy Land Experience (Orlando, Florida)
Bielo, James S. 2014. When Prayers Become Things. The Materiality of Prayer.
Bielo, James S. and Jana Mathews. 2022. Orlando's Holy Land Experience Closed in 2021 After 20 Years: Does It Matter? The Commons (online, August).
Branham, Joan. 2008. The Temple That Won't Quit: Constructing sacred space in Orlando's Holy Land theme park. Harvard Divinity Bulletin 36(3): 18-31.
Brehm, Stephanie. 2011. "Shalom, God Bless, and Please Exit to the Right": A Cultural Ethnography of the Holy Land Experience. Masters Thesis, Dept. of Comparative Religion. Oxford, OH: Miami University.
Crockett, David and Lenita Davis. 2016. Commercial mythmaking at the Holy Land Experience. Consumption Markets & Culture 19(2): 206-227.
Lukens-Bull, Ronald and Mark Fafard. 2007. Next Year in Orlando: (Re)creating Israel in Christian Zionism. Journal of Religion and Society 9:1-20.
Mathews, Jana. 2015. Theme Park Bibles: Trinity Broadcasting Network's Holy Land Experience and the Evangelical Use of the Documentary Past. Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 27(2): 89-104.
Roberts, Erin. 2019. Embodied Mythic Formation at the Holy Land Experience. In Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation. Edited by Erin Roberts and Jennifer Eyl, 127-144. London: Bloomsbury
Rowan, Yorke. 2004. Repacking the Pilgrimage: Visiting the Holy Land in Orlando. In Marketing Heritage: Archaeology and the Consumption of the Past. Edited by Yorke Rowan and Uzi Baram, 249-266. Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Press.
Holy Land of America (Washington, D.C.)
Klatzker, David. 2002. The Franciscan Monastery of Washington DC: The Holy Land of America. In America and Zion: Essays and Papers in Memory of Moshe Davis, edited by Eli Lederhendler and Jonathan Sarna, 243-54. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press.
Holy Land (Ocean Grove, New Jersey)
Messenger, Troy. 1999. Holy Leisure: Recreation and Religion in God's Square Mile. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Holy Land at 1904 World's Fair (St. Louis, Missouri)
Feldman, Keith P. 2016. Seeing is Believing: U.S. Imperial Culture and the Jerusalem Exhibit of 1904. Studies in American Jewish Literature 35(1): 99-118.
Rubin, Rehav. 2000. When Jerusalem was Built in St. Louis: A large scale model of Jerusalem in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 132(1): 59-70.
Shamir, Milette. 2012. Back to the Future: The Jerusalem exhibit at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. Journal of Levantine Studies 2(1): 93-113.
Jewish Children's Museum (New York City, NY)
Fader, Ayala, Henry Goldschmidt, Samuel Heilman, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Paul Rosenthal, and Jeffrey Shandler. 2007. Jewish Children's Museum: A Virtual Roundtable on Material Religion. Material Religion 3(3): 404-27.
Museum of the Bible (Washington, D.C.)
Bielo, James S. 2019. Quality: D.C.'s Museum of the Bible and Aesthetic Evaluation. Material Religion (Online First, January 31).
---. 2019. Like-able Me, Like-able There. American Religion (December)
---. 2020. Experiential Design and Religious Publicity at D.C.'s Museum of the Bible. The Senses and Society 15(1): 98-113.
---. 2022. The Magic of Science and the Science of Magic in Evangelical Publicity. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 17(2): 173-82.
Chancey, Mark. 2017. When Hobby Lobby Tours the Holy Land: The Back Story of Passages, Museum of the Bible's Christian Zionist Pilgrimage. The Bible & Interpretation, September.
Gannon, Kelly and Kimberly Wagner. 2018. Museum of the Bible, Washington D.C. The Journal of American History 105(3): 618-625.
Hicks-Keeton, Jill. 2017. Can Scripture "Speak for Itself"? A Look Inside the Museum of the Bible. Religion & Politics, November 17.
---. 2018. What the Museum of the Bible Conveys About Biblical Scholarship Behind Church Doors. Religion & Politics, March 13.
---. 2018. The Museum of Whose Bible? On the Perils of Turning Theology into History. Ancient Jew Review (online, January)
Hicks-Keeton, Jill and Cavan Concannon. 2018. "Squint against the grandeur!": Waiting for Jesus at the Museum of the Bible. The Bible & Critical Theory 14(2): 1-16.
---. 2019. On Good Government and Good Girls: How the Museum of the Bible's Founding Family Turned Themselves into Biblical Experts. The Revealer (online, March 20).
---. 2022. Does Scripture Speak for Itself? The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hicks-Keeton, Jill and Cavan Concannon, eds. 2019. The Museum of the Bible: A Critical Introduction. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
Lindsey, Rachel McBride. 2014. Passages: A Glimpse into the Hobby Lobby Family's Bible Museum. Religion & Politics (online, September).
Linville, James. 2018. The Creationist MOTB: Judaism and Judaica at the Answers in Genesis Creationist Facilities. Ancient Jew Review (online, January)
Mathews, Jana. 2019. The Museum of the Bible's "fake" history of the Bible. Material Religion (Online first, February).
Moss, Candida R. and Joel S. Baden. 2017. Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Porter, Sarah. 2018. Incompatible Sites: The Land of Israel and the Ambulant Body in the Museum of the Bible. Ancient Jew Review (online, January)
Stevenson, Jill. 2019. Narrative space: performing progress at the Museum of the Bible. Material Religion (Online first, February).
Young, Stephen L. 2019. The Museum of the Bible: Promoting Biblical Exceptionalism to Naturalize an Evangelical America. In Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation. Erin Roberts and Jennifer Eyl, eds. 25-42. London: Bloomsbury.
Nazareth Village (Nazareth, Israel)
Feldman, Jackie. 2016. A Jewish Guide in the Holy Land: How Christian Pilgrims Made Me Israeli. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (pp. 24, 42-43)
Rose, Lena. 2020. Nazareth Village and the Creation of the Holy Land in Israel-Palestine. Current Anthropology (Online First, May).
Neot Kedumim (Lod, Israel)
Alon-Mozes, Tal. 2013. Landscape as a national text: the biblical landscape reserve of Neot Kedumim. Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes: An International Quarterly 33(4): 1-16.
Mitchell, W.J.T. 2000. Holy Landscape: Israel, Palestine, and the American Wilderness. Critical Inquiry 26(2): 193-223.
Noah's Ark (Hong Kong, China)
Goh, Robbie B.H. 2014. Noah's Ark: Evangelical Christianity and the creation of a values environment in Hong Kong. Material Religion 10(2): 208-233.
Palestine Park (Chautauqua, New York)
Davis, John. 1992. Holy Land, Holy People? Photography, Semitic Wannabes, and Chautauqua's Palestine Park. Prospects 17: 241-72.
Long, Burke O. 2001. Lakeside at Chautauqua's Holy Land. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 92: 29-53.
Passion Play at Oberammergau (Oberammergau, Germany)
Morgan, David. 2007. "Passion Plays," from Chapter 6: Seeing in Public. In The Lure of Images. London: Routledge.
Shapiro, James. 2007. Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play. New York: Vintage.
Stevenson, Jill. 2015. Affect, Medievalism and Temporal Drag: Oberammergau's Passion Play Event. In The Changing World Religion Map. Edited by Stanley D. Brunn. Springer: 2491-2515.
Passion Plays (other)
Bautista, Julius. 2017. Hesukristo superstar: Entrusted agency and passion rituals in the Roman Catholic Philippines. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 28: 152-64.
---. 2018. On the Anthropology and Theology of Roman Catholic Rituals in the Philippines. International Journal of Asian Christianity 1: 143-56.
---. 2019. The Way of the Cross: Suffering Selfhoods in the Roman Catholic Philippines. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Choi, Seokhun. 2012. Performing the Passion of Christ in Postmodernity: American passion/Passion Plays as Ritual and Postmodern Theatre. Doctoral Dissertation, Dept. of Theatre. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas.
Haapalainen, Anna. 2017. Humanizing the Bible: Limits of Materiality in a Passion Play. In Christianity and the Limits of Materiality, edited by Minna Opas and Anna Haapalainen, 141-162. London: Bloomsbury.
Jeansonne, Glen. 1988. Chapter 11: The Sacred Projects. In Gerald L.K. Smith: Minister of Hate, 188-205. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Jones, Megan Sanborn. 2016. Testimony in the muscles, in the body: Proxy performances at the Mesa Easter Pageant. Mormon Studies Review 3: 11-18.
Monk, Charlene Faye. 1998. Passion Plays in the United States: The Contemporary Outdoor Tradition. Doctoral Dissertation, Dept. of Theatre. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University.
Mussler, Charles. 1993. Passions and the passion play: theatre, film and religion in America, 1880-1900. Film History 5: 419-456.
Sponsler, Claire. 2004. Chapter 5: American Passion Plays. In Ritual Imports: Performing Medieval Drama in America, 123-55. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Trexler, Richard C. 2003. Reliving Golgotha: The Passion Play of Iztapalapa. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Sacred Mount of Varallo (Varallo, Italy)
Afferni, Raffaella, Carla Ferrario, and Stefania Mangano. 2011. A place of emotions: The sacred mount of Varallo. Tourism 59(3): 369-386.
Freedberg, David. 1989. "Verisimilitude and Resemblance: From Sacred Mountain to Waxworks." In The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Gelfand, Laura D. 2012. Sense and Simulacra: Manipulation of the senses in medieval 'copies' of Jerusalem. Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies 3(4): 407-422.
Gottler, Christine. 2012. “The Temptation of the Senses at the Sacro Monti di Varallo.” In Religion and the Senses in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Wietse Boer and Christine Gottler, 393-451. Leiden: Brill.
Hood, William. 1984. "The Sacro Monte of Varallo: Renaissance Art and Popular Religion." In Monasticism and the Arts, edited by Timothy Gregory Verdon, 291-311. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
Lasansky, D. Medina. 2017. The "Catholic Grotesque" at the Sacro Monte of Varallo: the Protestant aversion to a graphic space during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Senses and Society 12(3): 317-332.
Leatherbarrow, David. 1987. The Image and Its Setting: A Study of the Sacro Monte at Varallo. RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 14: 107-122.
Nova, Alessandro. 1995. “‘Popular’ Art in Renaissance Italy: Early Response to the Holy Mountain at Varallo.” In Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America, 1450-1650. Edited by Claire Farago, 113-126. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Terry-Fritsch, Allie. 2014. Performing the Renaissance Body and Mind: Somaesthetic Style and Devotional Practice at the Sacro Monte de Varallo. Open Arts Journal 4: 111-132.
Saint Anne de Beaupre (Saint Anne de Beaupre, Quebec, Canada)
Anderson, Emma. 2017. Pilgrims' Presence: Catholic Community in Quebec. In Everyday Sacred: Religion in Contemporary Quebec. Hillary Kaell, ed. 156-85. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
Hufford, David J. 1985. Ste. Anne de Beaupre: Roman Catholic Pilgrimage and Healing. Western Folklore 44(3): 194-207.
Williams, Allison. 2010. Spiritual therapeutic landscapes and healing: A case study of St. Anne de Beaupre, Quebec, Canada. Social Science & Medicine 70:1633-1640.
Salvation Mountain (Niland, California)
Patterson, Sara M. 2016. Middle of Nowhere: Religion, Art, and Pop Culture at Salvation Mountain. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Promey, Sally M. 2018. Testimonial aesthetics and public display. The Immanent Frame (Online, February).
Santo Stefano (Bologna, Italy)
Ousterhout, Robert G. 1981. The Church of Santo Stefano: A "Jerusalem" in Bologna. Gesta 20(2): 311-321.
Solomon's Temple (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Bielo, James S. 2018. Materializing the Bible in the Global South. In Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South. Mark A. Lamport, ed. 494-496. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Tabernacle Experience (mobile exhibit)
Homrighausen, Jonathan. 2016. The Jewish Jesus in the California Desert: A Report from the Tabernacle Experience. Interfaith Observer, online.
Temple Institute (Jerusalem, Israel)
Cohen-Aharoni, Yemima. 2017. Guiding the 'real' Temple: the construction of authenticity in heritage sites in a state of absence and distance. Annals of Tourism Research 63: 73-82.
Walsingham National Shrine (Walsingham, England)
Coleman, Simon. 2000. Meaning of Movement: Home and Place at Walsingham. Culture and Religion 1(2): 153-169.
---. 2004. Pilgrimage to "England's Nazareth": Landscapes of Myth and Memory at Walsingham. In Intersecting Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage and Tourism, 52-67. Edited by Ellen Badone and Sharon Roseman. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press.
---. 2004. From England's Nazareth to Sweden's Jerusalem: movement, (virtual) landscapes and pilgrimage. In Reframing Pilgrimage: Cultures in Motion, edited by Simon Coleman and John Eade, 45-68. London: Routledge.
---. 2005. Putting it all together again: healing and incarnation in Walsingham. In Pilgrimage and Healing. Edited by J. Dubisch and M. Winkelman, 91-110. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
---. 2012. Memory as Absence and Presence: Pilgrimage, "Archaeo-Theology," and the Creativity of Destruction. Journeys 13(1):1-20.
---. 2013. Ritual Remains: Studying Contemporary Pilgrimage. In A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion. Edited by Janice Boddy and Michael Lambek, 294-308. London: Wiley-Blackwell.
---. 2014. Pilgrimage as Trope for an Anthropology of Christianity. Current Anthropology 55(s10): s281-s291.
---. 2015. Purity as Danger? Seduction and Sexuality at Walsingham. In The Seductions of Pilgrimage: sacred journeys afar and astray in the western religious tradition. Michael A. DiGiovine and David Picard, eds. 53-70. London: Ashgate.
Coleman, Simon and John Elsner. 1998. Performing Pilgrimage: Walsingham and the Ritual Construction of Irony. In Ritual, Performance, Media, edited by F. Hughes-Freeland, 46-65. London: Routledge.
---. 2004. Tradition as Play: Pilgrimage to "England's Nazareth." History and Anthropology 15(3): 273-88.
Dickinson, J.C. 1956. The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Janes, D. and G. Waller, eds. 2016. Walsingham in Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to Modernity. London: Routledge.
Turner, Victor and Edith Turner. 1978. Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture. New York: Columbia University Press.
Waller, G. 2011. Walsingham and the English Imagination. Farnham: Ashgate.
Wycliffe Discovery Center (Orlando, Florida)
Shani, Amir, Manuel Antonio Rivera and Denver Severt. 2007. "To Bring God's Word to all People": The case of a religious theme site. Tourism 55(1): 39-50.
Multiple attractions
Beal, Tim. 2005. Roadside Religion: In Search of the Sacred, the Strange, and the Substance of Faith. Boston: Beacon.
Bielo, James S. 2015. Replicating the Holy Land in the U.S. (a 'Materializing the Bible' road trip). Material Religions (Online, December)
---. 2016. Materializing the Bible: Ethnographic Methods for the Consumption Process. Practical Matters 9: 1-17.
---. 2017. Performing the Bible. In The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America. Paul Gutjahr, ed. 484-503. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
---. 2018. Immersion as shared imperative: entertainment of/in digital scholarship. Religion 48(2): 291-301.
Goh, Robbie B.H. 2017. The Jerusalem of Jesus: space and Pentecostal-evangelical branding in Orlando's Holy Land Experience and Eureka Spring's Holy Land Tour. Culture and Religion 18(3): 296-323.
Grubiak, Margaret M. 2020. Monumental Jesus: Landscapes of Faith and Doubt in Modern America. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.
Kaell, Hillary. 2017. “Museums, Expositions, and Religion in North America since the 19th Century,” In Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion in America, edited by John Corrigan, 1-18. Oxford University Press.
McDowell, Betty. 1982. Religion on the Road: Highway Evangelism and Worship Environments for the Traveler in America. Journal of American Culture 63-74.
Padan, Yael. 2019. Seeing is Believing: miniature and gigantic architectural models of second temple. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change (Online first, January)
Paine, Crispin. 2019. Gods and Rollercoasters: Religion in Theme Parks Worldwide. London: Bloomsbury.
Ron, Amos S. and Dallen J. Timothy. 2019. Contemporary Christian Travel: Pilgrimage, Practice and Place. Bristol, UK: Channel View Publications.
Stausberg, Michael. 2011. Religion and Tourism: Crossroads, Destinations, and Encounters. London: Routledge.
Thomas, Paul. 2020. Storytelling the Bible at the Creation Museum, Ark Encounter, and Museum of the Bible. London: Bloomsbury.
Wharton, Annabel Jane. 2006. Selling Jerusalem: Relics, Replicas, Theme Parks. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.