bible study

The first selection in my summer research project: James S. Bielo's Words Upon the Word: An Ethnography of Evangelical Group Bible Study. This summer, inspired by T.M. Luhrmann's When God Talks Back, I am reviewing several books that provide an academic perspective on North American evangelicals. My goal is to see evangelicals through the eyes of professional academics who have made a point of studying them with academic rigor. Unfortunately, the most commonly heard "academic" opinions about evangelicals are also the … [Read more...] about Bielo: Bible study as a social institution