James S. Bielo
American socio-cultural anthropologist
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- PhD Anthropology University of California, Santa Barbara
- Masters Anthropology University of California, Santa Barbara
- Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Santa Barbara
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James S. Bielo is an American socio-cultural anthropologist, specializing in the Anthropology of Religion, the Anthropology of Christianity, American Religion, Urban Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, and the study of Material Religion. He is an associate professor of Religious Studies at Northwestern University. He was awarded his Ph.D. in anthropology in 2007 from Michigan State University. With Carrie M. Lane, he is the series founder and co-editor of the “Anthropology of Contemporary North America" book series at the University of Nebraska Press. He is one of the founders of the AnthroCyBib, an online bibliographic resource for the anthropology of Christianity that is hosted by the University of Edinburgh. He is also a founder and co-curator of Materializing the Bible, an interactive, curated a catalogue of biblical themed environments that covers "Protestant, Catholic and, to a lesser extent Jewish and Latter-Day Saints sites, that in different ways transforms the Bible into physical, interactive and choreographed environments, for purposes of immersion, personal piety, religious education and conversion."
James S. Bielo's Published Works
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- Words upon the Word: An Ethnography of Evangelical Group Bible Study (2009) (103)
- Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for Authenticity (2011) (100)
- Belief, Deconversion, and Authenticity among U.S. Emerging Evangelicals (2012) (37)
- The ‘Emerging Church’ in America: Notes on the interaction of Christianities (2009) (30)
- ‘The Mind of Christ’: Financial Success, Born-again Personhood, and the Anthropology of Christianity (2007) (30)
- City of Man, City of God: The Re‐Urbanization of American Evangelicals (2011) (28)
- The Social Life of Scriptures: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Biblicism (2009) (27)
- On the failure of ‘meaning’: Bible reading in the anthropology of Christianity (2008) (21)
- The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion (2011) (21)
- Walking in the spirit of blood: Moral identity among born-again christians (2004) (19)
- "How Much of this is Promise?": God as Sincere Speaker in Evangelical Bible Reading (2011) (18)
- Urban Christianities: place-making in late modernity (2013) (16)
- Act Like Men: Social Engagement and Evangelical Masculinity (2014) (14)
- Replication as Religious Practice, Temporality as Religious Problem (2017) (13)
- Purity, danger, and redemption: Notes on urban missional evangelicals (2011) (13)
- Anthropology of Religion: The Basics (2015) (13)
- Biblical Gardens and the Sensuality of Religious Pedagogy (2018) (7)
- Anthropology, theology, critique (2018) (7)
- Words upon the Word (2009) (6)
- Cultivating Intimacy: Interactive Frames for Evangelical Bible Study (2009) (5)
- Promises of Place: A Future of Comparative U.S. Ethnography (2013) (5)
- “Particles‐to‐People…Molecules‐to‐Man”: Creationist Poetics in Public Debates (2019) (4)
- ‘Where Prayers May Be Whispered’: Promises of Presence in Protestant Place-Making (2020) (4)
- “FORMED” Emerging Evangelicals Navigate Two Transformations (2013) (4)
- Immersion as shared imperative: entertainment of/in digital scholarship (2018) (4)
- Faith in Anthropology: A Symposium on Timothy Larsen’s The Slain God (2016) (3)
- The Privilege of Being Banal: Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris. (2022) (2)
- Digital scholarship and the critical study of religion – four case studies (2018) (2)
- Flower, soil, water, stone: Biblical landscape items and Protestant materiality (2018) (2)
- Sacred Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism by Justin G. Wilford (review) (2013) (1)
- Introduction: Encountering Biblicism (2020) (1)
- Saving History: How White Evangelicals Tour the Nation’s Capital and Redeem a Christian America (2020) (1)
- The Question of Cultural Change in the Social Scientific Study of Religion: Notes from the Emerging Church (2017) (1)
- The Materiality of Myth: Authorizing Fundamentalism at Ark Encounter (2019) (1)
- Materializing the Bible: A Digital Scholarship Project from the Anthropology of Religion (2021) (1)
- Providence and Publicity in Waiting for a Creationist Theme Park (2020) (1)
- Incorporating Space: Protestant Fundamentalism and Astronomical Authorization (2020) (1)
- Ark Encounter (2020) (1)
- Experiential design and religious publicity at D.C.’s Museum of the Bible (2020) (1)
- Doing Religious Ethnography (2015) (0)
- Of arks and dragons (2019) (0)
- Ancient-Future II (2011) (0)
- Ironies of Faith (2011) (0)
- Church Planting II (2011) (0)
- Materializing the Bible: Scripture, Sensation, Place (2021) (0)
- Materializing the Bible (2021) (0)
- Churches and Charity in the Immigrant City: Religion, Immigration, and Civic Engagement in Miami. Alex Stepick, Terry Rey, and Sarah J. Mahler. eds. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009. 285 pp. (2013) (0)
- An Anthropologist Is Listening (2018) (0)
- Performing the Bible (2018) (0)
- Secular studies come of age (2015) (0)
- Imagining Catholicism and Catholics (2019) (0)
- What is “Religion”? (2015) (0)
- Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality by TodneThomasDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 252 pp.The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family by SophieBjork‐JamesNew Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021. 186 pp. (2022) (0)
- Sacred Scriptures (2018) (0)
- Return to the City of Joseph: Modern Mormonism’s Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo (2020) (0)
- Richard Cimino, Nadia A Mian and Weishan Huang (eds), Ecologies of Faith in New York City: The Evolution of Religious Institutions (2014) (0)
- In Time, in Place (2015) (0)
- Quality: D.C.’s Museum of the Bible and Aesthetic Evaluation (2019) (0)
- God's Agents: Biblical Publicity in Contemporary England. Matthew Engelke. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. 320 pp. (2014) (0)
- Stories of Deconversion (2011) (0)
- Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age. AyalaFader. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. xii + 270 pp. (2021) (0)
- The Magic of Science and the Science of Magic in Evangelical Publicity (2022) (0)
- Sharing the Sacred: A Tradition of Mormon Public Education in Kirtland, Ohio (2016) (0)
- Literalism as Creativity (2017) (0)
- Religion Matters: Reflections from an AAA Teaching Workshop (2012) (0)
- Introduction (2021) (0)
- eBay Method and the Study of Religion (2021) (0)
- Afterword (2021) (0)
- Theme Parks (2020) (0)
- Bodies, Words, and Things (2015) (0)
- Boddy, Janice and Michael Lambek (eds.) 2013. A companion to the anthropology of religion. Oxford: Wiley‐Blackwell. 584 pp. Hb.: US$200.95. ISBN: 978-0-470-67332-4. (2016) (0)
- 9. Textual Ideology, Textual Practice: Evangelical Bible Reading in Group Study (2020) (0)
- A Faith Between (2012) (0)
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