Dr. Amos Ron

Studies in progress:

1. Contemporary Christian Travel: Pilgrimage, Practice and Place. Ron, A.S. (Ashkelon, Academic College, Israel) and Timothy, D.J. (Arizona State University, USA), Clevedon: Channel View Publications Ltd / Multilingual Matters (Aspects of Tourism Series). Funding Agency: Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Ashkelon Academic College.
2. Landscapes of Christianity: Destination, Temporality, Transformation (submitted to Bloomsbury, “Religion, Space, and Place” series, 5.2017). Bielo, J.S. (Miami University, USA) and Ron, A.S. (eds.) (Ashkelon Academic College, Israel). Funding Agency: Ashkelon Academic College.
3. Introduction to Landscapes of Christianity. In: Bielo, J.S. and Ron, A.S. (eds.) Landscapes of Christianity: Destination, Temporality, Transformation (submitted to Bloomsbury, “Religion, Space, and Place” series, 5.2017). Ron, A.S. (Ashkelon Academic College, Israel) and Bielo, J.S. (Miami University, USA). Funding Agency: Ashkelon Academic College.
4. The Landscape of Sacred Groves in the New Testament: The Mt. of Beatitudes, the Garden of Gethsemane, and the Garden Tomb. In: Bielo, J.S. and Ron, A.S. (eds.) Landscapes of Christianity: Destination, Temporality, Transformation (submitted to Bloomsbury, “Religion, Space, and Place” series, 5.2017). Ron, A.S. (Ashkelon Academic College, Israel). Funding Agency: Ashkelon Academic College.
5. The Intimacy of Mediation: Jewish Guides in the Contact Zone of Christian Bible Land Pilgrimage, to be submitted to European Ethnologist, 2017. Ron, A.S. (Ashkelon Academic College, Israel), Lurie, Y. (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) and Guter, Y. (Independent Scholar, Israel). Funding Agency: Ashkelon Academic College.
6. Ethical Sensitivity: Guiding Christian Pilgrims in the Holy land. Ron, A.S. (Ashkelon Academic College, Israel), Lurie, Y. (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) and Guter, Y. (Independent Scholar, Israel). Funding Agency: Ashkelon Academic College.
7. Christian Destination Images of the Holy Land: A Reflection of Ideology and Theology in Travel Itineraries of Pilgrimage Groups. Ron, A.S. (Ashkelon Academic College, Israel) and Noy, C. (Ashkelon Academic College, Israel). Funding Agency: none.
8. Souvenir Shopkeepers and Suppliers in Jerusalem: Biography of Middlemen Minorities. Ron, A.S. (Ashkelon Academic College, Israel) and Hercbergs, D. Independent Scholar, Israel). Funding Agency: none.
9. The Cultural Geography of Trash. Journal of Place Management and Development. Ron, A.S. (Ashkelon Academic College, Israel) Funding Agency: none.

Major Publications:

1.Timothy, D.J. and Ron, A.S. (in press, 2019) Christian Tourism in the Middle East: Holy Land and Mediterranean Perspectives. In D.J. Timothy (ed.) Routledge Handbook on Tourism in the Middle East and North Africa. pp 147-159. London: Routledge.

2.Ron, A.S. (2018) Religious Needs in the Tourism Industry: The Perspective of Abrahamic Traditions. In: R. Butler and W. Sunkitul (eds.) Tourism and Religion: Issues and Implications. pp. 270-287. Clevedon: Channel View Publications Ltd

3. Ron, A.S. and Bielo, J.S. Introduction to Landscapes of Christianity. In: Bielo, J.S. and Ron, A.S. (eds.) Landscapes of Christianity: Destination, Temporality, Transformation (forthcoming) Bloomsbury, “Religion, Space, and Place” series.

4. Ron, A.S., Developing New Testament Sacred Groves in an Era of Overtourism: The Mt. of Beatitudes, the Garden of Gethsemane, and the Garden Tomb. In: Bielo, J.S. and Ron, A.S. (eds.) Landscapes of Christianity: Destination, Temporality, Transformation (forthcoming) Bloomsbury, “Religion, Space, and Place” series.
5. Timothy, D.J. and Ron, A.S. (2016) Religious Heritage, Spiritual Aliment and Food for the Soul. In D.J. Timothy (ed.) Heritage Cuisines: Traditions, Identities and Tourism. pp. 104-118. London: Routledge.
6. Olsen, D. H. and Ron, A. S. (2013) Managing Religious Heritage Attractions: The Case of Jerusalem. In B. Garrod and A. Fyall (eds.), Contemporary Cases in Heritage: Volume 1. pp. 51-78. Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers Ltd.
7. Keinan, O. and Ron, A. (2010) From a Community Museum to a Community of Museums: Creating a Model for a Community of Virtual Museums to the First Aliya Museums, in: Berlovitz, Y. and Lang, J. (eds.), Talking Culture: The First Aliya, an Interperiod Discourse. Tel Aviv: Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Meuchad Press, pp. 265-283 (in Hebrew).
8. Ron, A.S. (2010) Holy Land Protestant Themed Environments and the Spiritual Experience, in: Schlehe, J., Uike-Bormann, M., Oesterle, C. and Hochbruck, W. (eds.) Staging the Past: Themed Environments in Transcultural Perspectives. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, pp. 111-133.
9. Ron, A.S. (2010) Review of: Stein, R.L. (2008) Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press), Journal of Israeli History 29 (2), 237-239.
10. Ron, A.S. and Timothy, D.J. (2013) The Land of Milk and Honey: Biblical Foods, Heritage and Holy Land Tourism, Journal of Heritage Tourism 8 (2-3), 234-247.
11. Ron, A.S. (2009) Towards a Typological Model of Contemporary Christian Travel, Journal of Heritage Tourism 4 (4), 287-297.
12. Ron, A.S. and Feldman, J. (2009) From Spots to Themed Sites – the Evolution of the Protestant Holy Land, Journal of Heritage Tourism 4 (3), 201-216.
13. Ron, A., Shani, A. and Uriely, N. (2008) Eco-Leisure: Theory and Practice, Leisure/Loisir: Journal of the Canadian Association for Leisure Studies 32 (1), 47-64.

BOOKS:
Ron, A.S. and Timothy, D.J. (in press, 2019) Contemporary Christian Travel: Pilgrimage, Practice and Place. Clevedon: Channel View Publications Ltd / Multilingual Matters (Aspects of Tourism Series).
Bielo, J.S. and Ron, A.S. (eds.) Landscapes of Christianity: Destination, Temporality, Transformation (forthcoming) Bloomsbury, “Religion, Space, and Place” series.