Ryan K. Smith: Heritage and Holiness

Ryan is a Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University. He specializes in American religious history, material culture, and historic preservation. His most recent book is Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond's Historic Cemeteries. He is also the author of Gothic Arches, Latin Crosses…

Lieke Wijnia: Galleries of Material Religion

Lieke is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Art and Society at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, the Netherlands, and works as a freelance curator. She is the author of Resonating Sacralities: Dynamics Between Art and Religion in Postsecular Netherlands and Beyond the Return of Religion…

Cornelia Tsakiridou: Icons in the Postmodern Era

Cornelia received a PhD in Philosophy from Georgetown University and holds MA degrees in Philosophy and History from Temple University. She is the author of three monographs, The Orthodox Icon and Postmodern Art: Critical Reflections on the Christian Image and its Theology, Tradition and Transformation…

Jeffrey Kosky: Material Wonder

effrey is Professor of Religion at Washington & Lee University. He is the author of books and essays including From the Heart: A Memoir and a Meditation – On a Vital Organ, Arts of Wonder: Enchanting Secularity which received the 2013 Award for Excellence in Constructive-Reflective Studies from the American Academy of Religion…

Katie Kresser: Windows to the Sacred 

Katie is an art historian and critic specializing in issues of art, spirituality, contemplative practice and the artistic process. She has written two books, several book chapters, and more than one hundred articles on topics ranging from ancient temples to medieval cathedrals to postmodern…

Jamie Brummitt: Relics and American Faith

Jamie is an Associate Professor of American religions and material culture at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She earned her PhD from Duke University. Her book Protestant Relics in Early America examines relic veneration, corpse inspection, and the art of…

Anthony Petro: Christianity and the Culture Wars

Anthony is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches courses in U.S. religious history, gender and sexuality studies, the long 1980s, and visual culture. His most recent book, Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars,…

Christopher Sheklian: Riches of Armenian Liturgy 

Chris is an Assistant Professor of Religion in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Mississippi State University. He has served as Director of the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center at the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America and has worked…

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