%0 Journal Article %1 kark_sweden_1996 %A Kark, Ruth %D 1996 %J Journal of Historical Geography %K Palaestina, Pietismus, Schweden 19.Jh. %N 1 %P 46--67 %R 10.1006/jhge.1996.0004 %T Sweden and the Holy Land: pietistic and communal settlement %U http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WJN-45N4WVY-C/2/74ffa39524a12db0f9a27b291b1bcbe3 %V 22 %X This paper examines the only two Swedish settlement attempts in the Holy Land, the Swedish Templer Colony in Lebanon (1876 -1879), and the American-Swedish Colony, a religious commune in Jerusalem (1881 -1960), within the analytical framework of Wright 's and Tuan 's concept of geopietism and Guelke 's idealist approach to historical geography. It also considers the ideas of Baker, Denecke, Ross-Bryant and Werblowsky on ideology, religion, and land or landscape. Detailed reconstruction of the two case studies, based on critical use of contemporary primary sources, reflects more generalizable characteristics, when examined in the context of multiple levels of geopious emotions (New Sweden, New Canaan, heavenly and earthly Zion-Jerusalem), and the interface between religion and settlement, ideal and real time and place, as well as millenarianism and utopia as motivating forces of settlement process and characteristics. It supports Harvey and Powell 's thesis relating to the importance of perceptions and mental inventions in the creation of spatial practices or experience. These pioneer settlements should be viewed within the backdrop of the changing religious trends and the forces of emigration in nineteenth-century Sweden, concepts of the Holy Land, and the interrelationships between Swedish and German pietists, and between Swedish and American evangelists. The American-Swedish Colony reflects also many typologies of local and immigrant nineteenth-century American communal societies, and it preceded the well-documented communal experiment of the kibbutz first established in Palestine in 1909. Like Bishop Hill in the United States, the commune became incorporated into the historical-religious heritage of Sweden, long after it ceased to exist. In Palestine it is part of nineteenth century Christian and Jewish messianic settlement movements, where the Holy Land became a mirror reflecting European and American ideologies.

@article{kark_sweden_1996, abstract = {This paper examines the only two Swedish settlement attempts in the Holy Land, the Swedish Templer Colony in Lebanon (1876 -1879), and the {American-Swedish} Colony, a religious commune in Jerusalem (1881 -1960), within the analytical framework of Wright 's and Tuan 's concept of geopietism and Guelke 's idealist approach to historical geography. It also considers the ideas of Baker, Denecke, {Ross-Bryant} and Werblowsky on ideology, religion, and land or landscape. Detailed reconstruction of the two case studies, based on critical use of contemporary primary sources, reflects more generalizable characteristics, when examined in the context of multiple levels of geopious emotions {(New} Sweden, New Canaan, heavenly and earthly {Zion-Jerusalem),} and the interface between religion and settlement, ideal and real time and place, as well as millenarianism and utopia as motivating forces of settlement process and characteristics. It supports Harvey and Powell 's thesis relating to the importance of perceptions and mental inventions in the creation of spatial practices or experience. These pioneer settlements should be viewed within the backdrop of the changing religious trends and the forces of emigration in nineteenth-century Sweden, concepts of the Holy Land, and the interrelationships between Swedish and German pietists, and between Swedish and American evangelists. The {American-Swedish} Colony reflects also many typologies of local and immigrant nineteenth-century American communal societies, and it preceded the well-documented communal experiment of the kibbutz first established in Palestine in 1909. Like Bishop Hill in the United States, the commune became incorporated into the historical-religious heritage of Sweden, long after it ceased to exist. In Palestine it is part of nineteenth century Christian and Jewish messianic settlement movements, where the Holy Land became a mirror reflecting European and American ideologies.}, added-at = {2010-02-21T15:10:18.000+0100}, author = {Kark, Ruth}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26868db1910f7bfd74a7f0e10808b719b/avs}, doi = {10.1006/jhge.1996.0004}, interhash = {08ddb07adc09a2047e7c18bf562f9b2e}, intrahash = {6868db1910f7bfd74a7f0e10808b719b}, issn = {0305-7488}, journal = {Journal of Historical Geography}, keywords = {Palaestina, Pietismus, Schweden 19.Jh.}, number = 1, pages = {46--67}, shorttitle = {Sweden and the Holy Land}, timestamp = {2012-09-30T11:08:27.000+0200}, title = {Sweden and the Holy Land: pietistic and communal settlement}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WJN-45N4WVY-C/2/74ffa39524a12db0f9a27b291b1bcbe3}, volume = 22, year = 1996 }