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.
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