{"product_id":"materializing-the-bible-scripture-sensation-place-paperback","title":"Materializing the Bible: Scripture, Sensation, Place - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames S. Bielo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAmy R. Whitehead\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when the written words of biblical scripture are transformed into experiential, choreographed environments? To answer this question, anthropologist James Bielo explores a diverse range of practices and places that \"materialize the Bible,\" including gardens, theme parks, shrines, museums, memorials, exhibitions, theatrical productions, and other forms of replication. Integrating ethnographic, archival, and mass media data, case studies focus primarily on U.S. Christianity from the late 19th-century to the present. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Composed as 20 short chapters that may be read in any order, the book is divided into three sections. Section I, \"Variations on Replication,\" analyzes examples that recontextualize elements from the (actual or imagined) biblical past. Section II, \"The Power of Nature,\" turns to the natural world associated with Christian scripture and how it is mobilized as a privileged media. Section III, \"Choreographing Experience,\" examines lived interactions with the affordances of materializing the Bible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bielo argues that materializing the Bible works as an authorizing practice to intensify intimacies with scripture and circulate potent ideologies. Performed through the sensory experience of bodies, physical technologies, and infrastructures of place, Bielo illustrates how this phenomenon is always, ultimately, about expressions of power.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames S. Bielo\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA. He is the author of four books, most recently \u003ci\u003eArk Encounter: The Making of a Creationist Theme Park\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), and is the co-founder and lead curator for the digital scholarship project \u003ci\u003eMaterializing the Bible.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 23, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377041424633,"sku":"9781350260252","price":73.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/FqPrZL2mIA9781350260252.webp?v=1770027527","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/materializing-the-bible-scripture-sensation-place-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}