Amos S Ron Editor & Author

James S. Bielo is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA. He is the author of four books, most recently Ark Encounter: The Making of a Creationist Theme Park (2018), and is the co-founder and lead curator for the digital scholarship project Materializing the Bible. Amos S. Ron is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Tourism Studies at Ashkelon Academic College, Israel. A cultural geographer by training, he specializes in the geography of religions, Christian travel and pilgrimage, religious culinary tourism, religious themed environments, and sacred site place-making and management.