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<o:p><font size="7">How to Read a Map of Eden</font></o:p></span></b></font>
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<w:wrap type="square"></w:wrap></font></v:shape><font face="Calibri"><font size="6"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 36pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">Dr. James Bielo
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</span></b><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 24pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">Miami University, Oxford, Ohio</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 36pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri">Author of
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for Authenticity</i> (2011) and
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Words upon the Word: An Ethnography of an Evangelical Bible Study</i> (2009)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">In Kentucky, a young earth creationist ministry is planning a $150 million theme park, Ark Encounter, featuring a full-sized replica of Noah's
ark. In this talk, Dr. Bielo explores how the creative team uses immersion to teach creationist history and convert a skeptical public. The goal of this project is to render creationism legible outside the frame of religion-science debates. Through this case,
Dr. Bielo extends the dialogical approach to the construction of culture from his previous work on evangelical reading and the Emerging Church.</span><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 24pt"><font face="Calibri">Thursday, February 28, 2:30-4 pm
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EV3 – 4408, Environment 3 Building, UW<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><b><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Note:
</span></b><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Dr. Bielo will also speak on<b> Promises of Place: Reflections from the Emerging Church
</b>on Friday, March 1st, 7:30 pm, Great Hall, Conrad Grebel University College<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><font face="Calibri">Sponsored by Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo Department of Religious Studies, and the Wilfrid Laurier University Department of Religion
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