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…

Andrew Coates: Material Religion Today

Andrew is a lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at Duke University. He is the managing editor of Material Religion: the Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief and the author of What is Protestant Art?, a short survey of Protestant images and visual cultures from…

Aaron Rosen: Rethinking Religious Imagery

Aaron Rosen is a writer, curator, and non-profit leader, respected internationally for his work in the public humanities, interfaith dialogue, and the arts.  He is Executive Director of The Clemente Course in the Humanities, and founded and directs the not-for-profit…

Kathryn Barush: Pilgrimage and Material Religion

Kathryn is Bertelsen Professor of Art History and Religion at the Graduate Theological Union and Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. She has published extensively on the theory of pilgrimage, especially as it relates to art experience. Her recent project, Imaging…

Julio Bermudez: Building for Transcendence

Julio is president of the Architecture, Culture and Spirituality Forum, that he cofounded in 2007. His interests focus on the relationship between architecture, culture, and spirituality through the lens of phenomenology and neuroscience. Julio has widely lectured, led…

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