Surely one reason for the ongoing but mistakenly benign and otherworldly cliché of India as a land of “spirituality” is…
Le mal des fleurs
Material Religion
Borderlands of the sacred
Americans have long sacralized ordinary objects through memory work that reveals the power of the state, that transforms otherwise familiar,…
Testimonial aesthetics and public display
It would be inaccurate to assert that the cross is everywhere; but it is fair to say that we rarely…