James S. Bielo is Lecturer of Anthropology at Miami University. He is the author of Words upon the Word: An Ethnography of Evangelical Bible Study (NYU Press, 2009) and Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for Authenticity (NYU Press, 2011), and the editor of The Social Life of Scriptures: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Biblicism (Rutgers Press, 2009). As a teacher-scholar at Miami, Dr. Bielo primarily teaches courses in cultural and linguistic anthropology, ethnography, religion, American communities, and globalization. Read more posts at Reverberations.