Saving History
Subtitle: How White Evangelicals Tour the Nation's Capital and Redeem a Christian America
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781469658773
Subjects: Geography
Description: "Millions of tourists visit Washington, D.C., every year, but for some the experience is about much more than sightseeing. Lauren R. Kerby's lively, engaging book takes readers onto tour buses and explores the world of Christian heritage tourism. These expeditions visit the same attractions as their secular counterparts-Capitol Hill, the Washington Monument, the war memorials, and much more-but the white evangelicals who flock to the tours are searching for evidence that America was founded as a Christian nation"--