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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Dr. James Bielo will not be able to give his talk "How to Read a Map of Eden" today. We hope to be able to reschedule the talk. Details will follow shortly if we are able.
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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000; font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri"><b><span style="font-size:72pt"><font size="7">How to Read a Map of Eden</font></span></b></font>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font face="Calibri"></font><font face="Calibri"><font size="6"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%; font-size:36pt">Dr. James Bielo
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</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%; font-size:24pt">Miami University, Oxford, Ohio</span><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%; font-size:36pt"></span></b></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%; font-size:18pt"><font face="Calibri">Author of
<i style="">Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for Authenticity</i> (2011) and
<i style="">Words upon the Word: An Ethnography of an Evangelical Bible Study</i> (2009)</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><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">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><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</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font face="Calibri"><b><span style="line-height:115%; font-size:14pt">Note:
</span></b><span style="line-height:115%; font-size:14pt">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</span></font></p>
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<span style="line-height:115%; font-size:14pt"><font face="Calibri">Sponsored by Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo Department of Religious Studies, and the Wilfrid Laurier University Department of Religion and Culture.</font></span></p>
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