Materializing the Bible: Scripture, Sensation, Place was published with the Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion series in September 2021. In 20 short chapters, I explore the global and historic phenomenon of transforming written scriptures into experiential, choreographed environments.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Section I: Variations on Replication
1. 1:1
2. Miniaturizing
3. Re-Enacting
4. Imagineering
5. Plastic Jesus
6. Ways of Remaining
Section II: The Power of Nature
7. Flora
8. Fauna
9. Ingesting the Word
10. How Stones Do Things
Section III: Choreographing Experience
Circulation
11. Miracles and Lavatories
12. Greetings From...
13. Like-able Me, Like-able There
Design
14. In Place, In Motion
15. Interactivity
16. Engulfed I
17. Engulfed II
Classification
18. In the Garden
19. Rev. Ruth's Yard Poetics
20. Four Crosses Over Waterbury
Conclusion
Introduction
Section I: Variations on Replication
1. 1:1
2. Miniaturizing
3. Re-Enacting
4. Imagineering
5. Plastic Jesus
6. Ways of Remaining
Section II: The Power of Nature
7. Flora
8. Fauna
9. Ingesting the Word
10. How Stones Do Things
Section III: Choreographing Experience
Circulation
11. Miracles and Lavatories
12. Greetings From...
13. Like-able Me, Like-able There
Design
14. In Place, In Motion
15. Interactivity
16. Engulfed I
17. Engulfed II
Classification
18. In the Garden
19. Rev. Ruth's Yard Poetics
20. Four Crosses Over Waterbury
Conclusion
Crossing the Red Sea, Hebrew Bible Experience, Museum of the Bible. Photo: James S. Bielo