From April 12-17, Montreal will play host to two international symposia organized by Concordia University, the Université du Québec à…
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The spaces of American civil religion
Reviewing Kirk Savage's Monument Wars: Washington D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape for Religion Dispatches,…
A haunting Chagall resurfaces in London
The New York Times reports that the London Jewish Museum of Art has recently acquired a previously unknown Marc Chagall…
Southern fried music
The Oxford American, the “Southern magazine of good writing,” has released its 11th annual music issue, “True Soul & Other True…
Religion and art: friends or enemies?
Religion and art seem to be in hot contention in the blogosphere of late . At Blogging Religiously, reporter Gary…
Sacramental poetics
By its very nature, mystery is much more difficult to speak about, and certainly to track. But religious ritual claims…
Humanists as cultural agents
Without art, Victor Shklovsky writes in "Art as Technique," "life is reckoned as nothing. Habitualization devours works, clothes, furniture, one's…
The persistence of memory
Francis Ford Coppola’s rendition of Mircea Eliade’s novel Youth Without Youth opens with a montage of clocks woozily bending. These…