Books By James S. (Miami University, USA) Bielo - Author

James S. Bielo is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA. He is the author of four books, most recently Ark Encounter: The Making of a Creationist Theme Park (2018), and is the co-founder and lead curator for the digital scholarship project Materializing the Bible. Amos S. Ron a retired independent researcher specializing in the geography of religions, Christian travel and pilgrimage, religious culinary tourism, religious themed-environments, and sacred site place-making and management. He is currently a research fellow at the department of French Culture at Bar Ilan University, Israel. He is the co-author of Contemporary Christian Travel: Pilgrimage, Practice and Place (2019, with DJ Timothy).