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Anthropology of Religion: The Basics
Anthropology of Religion: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introductory text organized around key issues that all anthropologists of religion face. This book uses a wide range of historical and ethnographic examples to address not only what is studied by anthropologists of religion, but how such studies are approached. It addresses questions such as: How do human agents interact with gods and spirits? What is the nature of doing religious ethnography? Can the immaterial be embodied in the body, language and material objects? What is the role of ritual, time, and place in religion? Why is charisma important for religious movements? How do global processes interact with religions? With international case studies from a range of religious traditions, suggestions for further reading, and inventive reflection boxes, Anthropology of Religion: The Basics is an essential read for students approaching the subject for the first time.
Emerging Evangelicals
The Emerging Church movement developed in the mid-1990s among primarily white, urban, middle-class pastors and laity who were disenchanted with America’s conservative Evangelical sub-culture. It is a response to the increasing divide between conservative Evangelicals and concerned critics who strongly oppose what they consider overly slick, corporate, and consumerist versions of faith. A core feature of their response is a challenge to traditional congregational models, often focusing on new church plants and creating networks of related house churches. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork, James S. Bielo explores the impact of the Emerging Church movement on American Evangelic...
Words Upon the Word
James S. Bielo draws on over nineteen months of ethnographic work with five congregations to better understand why group Bible study matters so much to Evangelicals and for Evangelical culture. Through a close analysis of participants' discourse, Bielo examines the defining themes of group life--from textual interpretation to spiritual intimacy and the rehearsal of witnessing. --from publisher description.
Ark Encounter
"Opened in July 2016, Ark Encounter is a creationist theme park in Kentucky. It features a re-creation of Noah's ark, built to full scale to creationist specifications drawn from Genesis, as well as exhibits that imagine the Bible's account of life before the flood." --Back cover.
Ark Encounter
Behind the scenes at a creationist theme park with a mission to convert visitors through entertainment Opened to the public in July 2016, Ark Encounter is a creationist theme park in Kentucky. The park features an all-timber re-creation of Noah's ark, built full scale to creationist specifications drawn from the text of Genesis, as well as exhibits that imagine the Bible’s account of life before the flood. More than merely religious spectacle, Ark Encounter offers important insights about the relationship between religion and entertainment, religious publicity and creativity, and fundamentalist Christian claims to the public sphere. James S. Bielo examines these themes, drawing on his unpr...
Materializing the Bible
Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section I: Variations on Replication -- Chapter 1: 1:1 -- Chapter 2: Miniaturizing -- Chapter 3: Reenacting -- Chapter 4: Imagineering -- Chapter 5: Plastic Jesus -- Chapter 6: Ways of Remaining -- Section II: The Power of Nature -- Chapter 7: Flora -- Chapter 8: Fauna -- Chapter 9: Ingesting the Word -- Chapter 10: How Stones Do Things -- Section III: Choreographing Experience -- Circulation -- Chapter 11: Miracles and Lavatories -- Chapter 12: Greetings From . . . -- Chapter 13: Like-able Me, Like-able There -- Design -- Chapter 14: In Place, In Motion -- Chapter 15: Interactivity -- Chapter 16: Engulfed I -- Chapter 17: Engulfed II -- Classification -- Chapter 18: In the Garden -- Chapter 19: Rev. Ruth's Yard Poetics -- Chapter 20: Four Crosses Over Waterbury -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
The New Evangelical Social Engagement
Evangelicals are increasingly turning their attention to such issues as the environment, international human rights, economic development, racial reconciliation, and urban renewal. The New Evangelical Social Engagement maps this new religious terrain and spells out its significance.
The Social Life of Scriptures
What do Christians do with the Bible? How do theyùindividually and collectivelyùinteract with the sacred texts? Why does this engagement shift so drastically among and between social, historical, religious, and institutional contexts? Such questions are addressed in a most enlightening, engaging, and original way in The Social Life of Scriptures. Contributors offer a collection of closely analyzed and carefully conducted ethnographic and historical case studies, covering a range of geographic, theological, and cultural territory, including: American evangelicals and charismatics; Jamaican Rastafarians; evangelical and Catholic Mayans; Northern Irish charismatics; Nigerian Anglicans; and Chinese evangelicals in the United States. The Social Life of Scriptures is the first book to present an eclectic, cross-cultural, and comparative investigation of Bible use. Moreover, it models an important movement to outline a framework for how scriptures are implicated in organizing social structures and meanings, with specific foci on gender, ethnicity, agency, and power.
Materializing the Bible
Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section I: Variations on Replication -- Chapter 1: 1:1 -- Chapter 2: Miniaturizing -- Chapter 3: Reenacting -- Chapter 4: Imagineering -- Chapter 5: Plastic Jesus -- Chapter 6: Ways of Remaining -- Section II: The Power of Nature -- Chapter 7: Flora -- Chapter 8: Fauna -- Chapter 9: Ingesting the Word -- Chapter 10: How Stones Do Things -- Section III: Choreographing Experience -- Circulation -- Chapter 11: Miracles and Lavatories -- Chapter 12: Greetings From . . . -- Chapter 13: Like-able Me, Like-able There -- Design -- Chapter 14: In Place, In Motion -- Chapter 15: Interactivity -- Chapter 16: Engulfed I -- Chapter 17: Engulfed II -- Classification -- Chapter 18: In the Garden -- Chapter 19: Rev. Ruth's Yard Poetics -- Chapter 20: Four Crosses Over Waterbury -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
The Bible and Global Tourism
"An examination of how biblical tourism is enmeshed within the production and management of heritage; marketing and publicity in contexts of global tourism; accessibility of Bible-related sites and routes for multiple audiences; and, the forging of connections between touristic experience and biblical identity"--
