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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.

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politics and culture Evangelical Christianity tourism museum studies

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Walking and Talking With the Lord: Teleological Curation,Salvation,and the Billy Graham Library

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