{"id":321,"date":"2019-11-18T16:13:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T14:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aac.ac.il\/research-authority\/?page_id=321"},"modified":"2020-08-11T13:55:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T10:55:16","slug":"dr-amos-ron","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.aac.ac.il\/research-authority\/%d7%a8%d7%a9%d7%95%d7%aa-%d7%94%d7%9e%d7%97%d7%a7%d7%a8-%d7%95%d7%94%d7%a4%d7%a8%d7%a1%d7%95%d7%9e%d7%99%d7%9d\/researchers\/dr-amos-ron\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Amos Ron"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Email: amosron@gmail.com<\/p>

Phone: +972-544922582<\/p>

Office: +972-86789280<\/p>

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Academic position<\/strong>:<\/p>

Senior lecturer
Department head<\/p>

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Field of expertise<\/strong>:<\/p>

Tourism & leisure studies
Cultural geography and geography of religion
Spiritual and religious tourism
Pilgrimage
Heritage tourism
Culinary tourism
Tour-guiding
Sociology of tourism and leisure
Landscape interpretation
Spatial commemoration
The relationship between landscape and identity
The management of sacred cities
The spatial aspects of pilgrimage sites and places
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Studies in progress:<\/strong><\/p>

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, \u201cReligion, Space, and Place\u201d 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, \u201cReligion, Space, and Place\u201d 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, \u201cReligion, Space, and Place\u201d 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.<\/p>

Major Publications:<\/strong><\/p>

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.<\/p>

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<\/p>

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, \u201cReligion, Space, and Place\u201d series.<\/p>

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, \u201cReligion, Space, and Place\u201d 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 \u2013 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.<\/p>

BOOKS:<\/strong>
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).
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Email: amosron@gmail.com Phone: +972-544922582 Office: +972-86789280 \u00a0 Academic position: Senior lecturerDepartment head \u00a0 Field of expertise: Tourism & leisure studiesCultural geography and geography of religionSpiritual and religious tourismPilgrimageHeritage tourismCulinary tourismTour-guidingSociology of tourism and leisureLandscape interpretationSpatial commemorationThe relationship between landscape and identityThe management of sacred citiesThe spatial aspects of pilgrimage sites and placesReligious themed environments Studies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":179,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n