%0 Journal Article
%T Walking and Talking With the Lord: Teleological Curation, Salvation, and the Billy Graham Library
%A Christine S. Davis
%A Jonathan Lake Crane
%J Cultural Studies £¿ Critical Methodologies
%@ 1552-356X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1532708617745093
%X This article offers a critical auto-ethnography of Charlotte¡¯s extensive Billy Graham Library complex, sculpted grounds, and memorial garden. Opened in 2007 and designed as an ¡°ongoing Crusade,¡± the Billy Graham Library is a notable Evangelical archive. All historical sites are wellsprings curated to convey and preserve a compelling narrative through line that encompasses the meaning of the assembled artifacts on display. The museum is also constructed to win souls to God and bring all visitors to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and, we suggest, to usher visitors to an irredentist vision of Christ¡¯s kingdom
%K politics and culture
%K Evangelical Christianity
%K tourism
%K museum studies
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1532708617745093