Thomas S Bremer
Biographic Data
| ID | 528182 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas S Bremer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas S |
| FAMILY NAME | Bremer |
| SIGNATURE | BREMER T S |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1 Rhodes College USA Memphis, TN |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The religious and spiritual appeal of national parks
Travel to the parks promised nineteenth-century visitors sublime experiences bordering on the spiritual and religious. The religious aspect in visitors’ experiences of American national parks has not lessened since nineteenth-century pilgrims first journeyed to Yellowstone and the other early parks. The literature on national parks is extensive. An impressive book on pilgrimage to the national parks uses a religious studies approach that combines…
Black Robes and the Book of Heaven
Protestant and Catholic sources tell different stories about four Nez Perce emissaries from beyond the Rocky Mountains who arrived in St. Louis in the fall of 1831. Although their respective historical accounts reveal little about why native peoples would find it advantageous to send a delegation to an American frontier town asking for help, they reveal much about the contrasts between these rival groups of American Christians in the nineteenth c…
A Touristic Angle of Vision
Studying religions through the framework of tourist studies destabilizes conventional notions of 'religion' and introduces new questions for historians and other scholars who study religions in the Americas as well as for the academic study of religions more broadly. This essay briefly reviews key themes in regard to religious tourism, then considers some of the methodological and theoretical advantages of employing a touristic approach to the st…
Roadside Religion
Blessed with Tourists
Journal Article Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio Get access Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio. By Bremer Thomas S.. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xii + 207 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.) Anthony P. Mora Anthony P. Mora Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
Myths in Stone
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park
Tourists and Religion at Temple Square and Mission San Juan Capistrano
A comparative investigation of Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Mission San Juan Capistrano in southern California explores experience, authenticity, and authority at religious places that are also sites of intense tourist activity. This study of the Mormon holy site and the former Catholic mission established during the Spanish colonial era includes a contemplation of their respective strategies of allurement, proselytization efforts, …
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park
Tourists and Religion at Temple Square and Mission San Juan Capistrano
A comparative investigation of Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Mission San Juan Capistrano in southern California explores experience, authenticity, and authority at religious places that are also sites of intense tourist activity. This study of the Mormon holy site and the former Catholic mission established during the Spanish colonial era includes a contemplation of their respective strategies of allurement, proselytization efforts, …
A Touristic Angle of Vision
Studying religions through the framework of tourist studies destabilizes conventional notions of 'religion' and introduces new questions for historians and other scholars who study religions in the Americas as well as for the academic study of religions more broadly. This essay briefly reviews key themes in regard to religious tourism, then considers some of the methodological and theoretical advantages of employing a touristic approach to the st…
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park
Tourists and Religion at Temple Square and Mission San Juan Capistrano
A comparative investigation of Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Mission San Juan Capistrano in southern California explores experience, authenticity, and authority at religious places that are also sites of intense tourist activity. This study of the Mormon holy site and the former Catholic mission established during the Spanish colonial era includes a contemplation of their respective strategies of allurement, proselytization efforts, …
Myths in Stone
Roadside Religion
Blessed with Tourists
Journal Article Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio Get access Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio. By Bremer Thomas S.. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xii + 207 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.) Anthony P. Mora Anthony P. Mora Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
A Touristic Angle of Vision
Studying religions through the framework of tourist studies destabilizes conventional notions of 'religion' and introduces new questions for historians and other scholars who study religions in the Americas as well as for the academic study of religions more broadly. This essay briefly reviews key themes in regard to religious tourism, then considers some of the methodological and theoretical advantages of employing a touristic approach to the st…
The religious and spiritual appeal of national parks
Travel to the parks promised nineteenth-century visitors sublime experiences bordering on the spiritual and religious. The religious aspect in visitors’ experiences of American national parks has not lessened since nineteenth-century pilgrims first journeyed to Yellowstone and the other early parks. The literature on national parks is extensive. An impressive book on pilgrimage to the national parks uses a religious studies approach that combines…
Black Robes and the Book of Heaven
Protestant and Catholic sources tell different stories about four Nez Perce emissaries from beyond the Rocky Mountains who arrived in St. Louis in the fall of 1831. Although their respective historical accounts reveal little about why native peoples would find it advantageous to send a delegation to an American frontier town asking for help, they reveal much about the contrasts between these rival groups of American Christians in the nineteenth c…
Philosophy (8 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Religious Tourism and Spaces (5 works) · Religious studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Mormonism, Religion, and History (3 works)