Bielo, James. 2015. “Secular studies come of age.” Thesis Eleven. DOI: 10.1177/0725513615592986 Abstract: In this essay I review three important volumes for the …
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Bielo, “Act Like Men”
Bielo, James S. 2014. Act Like men: Social Engagement and Evangelical Masculinity. Journal of Contemporary Religion 29(2): 233-248. Abstract: This article contributes to …
Bielo, “FORMED”
Bielo, James S. 2013. “FORMED”: Emerging Evangelicals Navigate Two Transformations. In The New Evangelical Social Engagement. Edited by Brian Steensland …
Bielo, “Place-making in late modernity”
Bielo, James S. 2013. Urban Christianities: Place-making in late modernity. Religion 43(3): 301-311.
Bielo (ed.), “Urban Christianities”
The journal Religion has now published a special issue on “Urban Christianities,” edited by James S. Bielo, with contributions from: …
Burdick, John. 2013. The Color of Sound: Race, Religion, and Music in Brazil
Reviewed by James S. Bielo (Miami University). Eight young men gather on a Sao Paulo rooftop – surveying the city’s sprawling jumble of ramshackle houses, the periferia – writing rhymes and composing gospel raps. A congregation is divided as they hear and see a samba band perform
Conference Dispatch: 2013 Society for the Anthropology of Religion
2013 Biennial Society for the Anthropology of Religion meetings, April 11-14, Pasadena, California. By: James S. Bielo (Miami University) This …
Bielo, “Promises of Place”
Bielo, James S. 2013. Promises of Place: A Future of Comparative U.S. Ethnography. North American Dialogue 16(1):1-11. Excerpt: In this …
Bielo, “The New Evangelicals: Does Fragmentation Equal Change”
Bielo, James S. 2013. Does fragmentation equal change? The Immanent Frame. http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2013/01/25/does-fragmentation-equal-change/ (accessed January 25, 2013). Excerpt: ‘Marcia Pally’s post …
Bielo, “Writing Religion”
Bielo, James S. 2012. Writing Religion. In Missionary Impositions: Conversion, Resistance, and Other Challenges to Objectivity in Religious Ethnography, eds. …