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Materializing the Bible: Scripture, Sensation, Place is a book-in-progress with the Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion series. 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
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Crossing the Red Sea, Hebrew Bible Experience, Museum of the Bible. Photo: James S. Bielo
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