...are saying? Will you ever be the same? Chorus; woman dances in freedom; Madonna dances with male dancers Madonna’s interpretation thus interweaves the themes of liberation and of life as...
Madonna
Is this all there is ![]()
by Mark Cauchi
What’s more? or, An answer to the question “Is this all there is?”
...Madonna (1989–90), which he says alludes to the Madonna of Torcello, who is a “cosmic mother, some originator,” Kapoor explains that he analogously uses the “void as a potential space...
The New Metaphysicals ![]()
by Robert Orsi
The Catholic heresy, again
...their families and friends. The Madonna is thought by her faithful to be present to them there in East Harlem; the church and the streets are important to them because...
Couture and the death of the real: A response to Heavenly Bodies
The American romance of the not-so-little black dress
Couture and the death of the real: A response to Heavenly Bodies
Refashioning gender and modern visual theology
here & there ![]()
by Nathan Schneider
Billy Corgan’s new job—a blog
...have done the same such as Madonna, Tom Cruise, or Mel Gibson. Some might contend that it is in the water out there in Hollywood. You make enough money and...
here & there ![]()
by Laura Duane
Christ and the Terminator
...surrounded by religious imagery. His father is a mysterious figure who, overcoming time, travels from the future to impregnate Sarah. Sarah herself is a militant Madonna convinced that her son...
Rethinking secularism ![]()
by Bryan S. Turner
Religion and modern communication
...Madonna’s experimentation with both Catholic and Hasidic personae. These phenomena have been regarded as aspects of “new religious movements” that are, as we have seen, manifestations of the new spiritual...
Rethinking secularism ![]()
by Colin Jager
Pussy Riot’s punk prayer
...(found here and here), Pussy Riot’s plight became something of an international media sensation. Amnesty International and Madonna took up the cause, and British Prime Minister David Cameron questioned Putin...
Deathless questions and other interviews ![]()
by Nathan Schneider
Religion for radicals: An interview with Terry Eagleton
...actually, he’s a pre-Christian atheist, because he never understood what Christianity is about in the first place! That would be rather like Madonna calling herself post-Marxist. You’d have to read...