Materializing the Bible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Materializing the Bible write by James S. Bielo. This book was released on 2021-08-12. Materializing the Bible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What 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. 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. 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.
Ark Encounter
Ark Encounter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ark Encounter write by James S. Bielo. This book was released on 2018-07-03. Ark Encounter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South
Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South write by Mark A. Lamport. This book was released on 2018-06-01. Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Christianity has transformed many times in its 2,000-year history, from its roots in the Middle East to its presence around the world today. From the mid-twentieth century onward the presence of Christianity has increased dramatically in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and the majority of the world’s Christians are now nonwhite and non-Western. The Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South traces both the historical evolution and contemporary themes in Christianity in more than 150 countries and regions. The volumes include maps, images, and a detailed timeline of key events. The phrases “Global Christianity” and “World Christianity” are inadequate to convey the complexity of the countries and regions involved—this encyclopedia, with its more than 500 entries, aims to offer rich perspectives on the varieties of Christianity where it is growing, how the spread of Christianity shapes the faith in various regions, and how the faith is changing worldwide.
Digital Humanities and Research Methods in Religious Studies
Digital Humanities and Research Methods in Religious Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Digital Humanities and Research Methods in Religious Studies write by Christopher D. Cantwell. This book was released on 2021-02-22. Digital Humanities and Research Methods in Religious Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume provides practical, but provocative, case studies of exemplary projects that apply digital technology or methods to the study of religion. An introduction and 16 essays are organized by the kinds of sources digital humanities scholars use – texts, images, and places – with a final section on the professional and pedagogical issues digital scholarship raises for the study of religion.
The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture
The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture write by Dan W. Clanton, Jr.. This book was released on 2020-11-24. The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The study of the reciprocal relationship between the Bible and popular culture has blossomed in the past few decades, and the time seems ripe for a broadly-conceived work that assesses the current state of the field, offers examples of work in that field, and suggests future directions for further study. This Handbook includes a wide range of topics organized under several broad themes, including biblical characters (such as Adam, Eve, David and Jesus) and themes (like Creation, Hell, and Apocalyptic) in popular culture; the Bible in popular cultural genres (for example, film, comics, and Jazz); and "lived" examples (such as museums and theme parks). The Handbook concludes with a section taking stock of methodologies and the impact of the field on teaching and publishing. The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture represents a major contribution to the field by some of its leading practitioners, and will be a key resource for the future development of the study of both the Bible and its role in American popular culture.
