Research Paper On Timothy Beal

Timothy Beal was on a quest to find the narrative behind the America’s mysterious sites to discover religion. Beal is a religion scholar and teacher with his family of four he took the chance to hit the road on an excursion to some of America's strangest religious sites. He wanted to explore the variety of religious experience while personally challenging his own faith. Beal had loaded his family on a rented 29-foot long motor home or RV and together they went on a road trip to visit the rural places in search of roadside religious attractions throughout America. This was his and family’s “voyage into the strange and sometimes wonderful religious worlds of roadside America…” (Pg. 3) which to him started as a research project, but became a soul-searching