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British Museum based project on religion and material culture in the 1st millennium

Installing ‘Imagining the Divine’ #6: 10th October

Jaś Elsner and Stefanie Lenk are blogging from behind the scenes during the installation of the Ashmolean Museum’s exhibition Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions, opening on October 19th. 

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Installing ‘Imagining the Divine’ #5: 9th October

Jaś Elsner and Stefanie Lenk are blogging from behind the scenes during the installation of the Ashmolean Museum’s exhibition Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions, opening on October 19th. 

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Installing ‘Imagining the Divine’ #4: 9th October

Jaś Elsner and Stefanie Lenk are blogging from behind the scenes during the installation of the Ashmolean Museum’s exhibition Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions, opening on October 19th. 

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Installing ‘Imagining the Divine’ #3: 6th October

Jaś Elsner and Stefanie Lenk are blogging from behind the scenes during the installation of the Ashmolean Museum’s exhibition Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions, opening on October 19th. 

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Installing ‘Imagining the Divine’ #2: 5th October

Jaś Elsner and Stefanie Lenk are blogging from behind the scenes during the installation of the Ashmolean Museum’s exhibition Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions, opening on October 19th. 

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Installing ‘Imagining the Divine’ #1: 3rd October

Jaś Elsner and Stefanie Lenk are blogging from behind the scenes during the installation of the Ashmolean Museum’s exhibition Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions, opening on October 19th. 

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A proper place for images: the Buddha in Thailand

Hugo Shakeshaft, a PhD student in Classics and member of Talking Religion, writes about his latest trip to Thailand and what encounters with the image of the Buddha might tell us about perceptions of this most important of figures.

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Empires of FaithAugust 3, 20172 Comments

How do gods exist? Overcoming the triviality of objects

Dominic Dalglish, a co-founder of Talking Religion, reports on the group’s Fourth and final workshop of the term hosted by the British Museum focussing on how we overcome the triviality of objects.

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What is Materiality?

Philippa Adrych gives us an overview of the 7th June colloquium, Talking Religion: discussing religious materiality hosted by TORCH and the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford, that was a celebration of our latest publication, Images of Mithra.

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Empires of FaithJuly 6, 2017July 6, 2017Leave a comment

Talking Religion: What makes an object religious?

Stefanie Lenk, a co-founder of Talking Religion, and Sylvia Alvares-Correa, one of the participants, discuss the proceedings of the research group’s third workshop hosted by the Ashmolean museum that focused on what a religious object is.

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