RLG203H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: True Cross, Homily, Holy Land Experience
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What does annabel wharton mean when she calls the holy land expereince the space of. Spectacle and thereby denes that is a relic a replica or even a reproduction of the holy. Spectale is a preformance that determines attention but refuses reciprocity (wharton 190) The holy land experience jerusalem appears in the guise of a theme park (191) The prinipal subject at disneyland is tourist while pligrams are that at the holy experience 190. The holy land spectale is heterogenous; a hybrid collection of shrines 193. Its strong claim to truth is weaked by the language used such as stone like (195) For rev. rosenthal the holy land expereince is more like a shrine than a theme park. (195) Its landscape functions as an essential element in an evangelical education , behaving like a post modern version if earlier evanagelical geographical (195) Promises a real experience incomaprison to walt disney ( 195)
