Urban Afterlives – by Dana Robinson
Dana Robinson on Hendrik W. Dey’s Afterlife of the Roman City The fall of Rome was an urban affair. Alaric’s sack of the
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MRBlog | Respecting Religion: The Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Impression
Andrew B. Irvine on art and the experience of others This past April in Knoxville, Tennessee, Andrew Irvine was one of three speakers at a “Table
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Things I’ve Seen: Loyd Grossman
Things I’ve Seen Can an artwork change your life? In the new series Things I’ve Seen, we interview people whose lives have been
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Toward Cultural Care: Acceptance Speech for the 2014 American Academy of Religion Award in Religion and the Arts – By Makoto Fujimura
Makoto Fujimura, San Diego, November 23, 2014 This speech is a prayer: a prayer uttered in the liminal zone between art and religion, a
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The Poetics of Tragedy – By Christopher Kempf
Christopher Kempf on Elliot Rodger, Seth Abramson, and Art’s Role in Tragedy At 5:34 a.m. on May 25, less than 36 hours after
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Looking to the Medieval to Understand Modern Art
Nancy Thebaut on Alexander Nagel’s Medieval Modern What could Cimabue’s 1280 panel painting, Madonna and Child Surrounded by Angels, and Louis Blériot’s airplane
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Did the Ancient Greeks Worship Stones as Gods?
Fernande Hölscher on Milette Gaifman’s Aniconism in Greek Antiquity Aniconism was a concept created in nineteenth century Germany to describe an important phenomenon
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Art as an Arena for Interreligious Dialogue
Aaron Rosen on Ruth Illman’s Art and Belief Even as interreligious dialogue sets out to discover and appreciate difference, it often begins with
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