This summer, I'm reading —and blogging about —several books that reflect academic understandings of American evangelicals. The first of these is James S. Bielo's Words Upon the Word: An Ethnography of Evangelical Group Bible Study. Previously, I wrote about Bielo's discussion of Bible study as a social institution and how he decided to answer questions of identity about being a Christian and an academic.This week, I'm going to look at the actual act of reading the Bible in a small group Bible study. At the beginning … [Read more...] about Bielo: How Do Evangelicals Read the Bible?