Penny Coombe and Sajda van der Leeuw of Talking Religion, respond to the second group workshop on the use of comparative approaches to the study of religion through material culture.
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Philippa Adrych, a co-founder of Talking Religion, discusses the proceedings of the research group’s second workshop focusing on comparative techniques for the study of religion through material culture.
Continue reading “Keeping up momentum: comparative approaches to art and religion”
Rachel Wood recounts the discussions held at a workshop on Artefact Imaging: Aims, Methods, and Access, 23rd May 2017, at Wolfson College, Oxford, organised by Kathryn Kelley and Rachel Wood, and funded by the Digital Research Cluster at Wolfson College.
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Dominic Dalglish, a co-founder of Talking Religion, discusses the proceedings of the research group’s first workshop that focussed on how we can use material culture to study religion.
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Members of the Empires of Faith team travel to Edinburgh to share their research and discuss the ongoing development of the ‘Imagining the Divine’ exhibition.
The sixth and final part in a series of weekly installments featuring insights from the authors of ‘Images of Mithra’, published in March 2017, looks at the Kingdom of Commagene, the appearance of ‘Apollo-Mithras-Helios-Hermes’, and what we might learn about the nature of gods.
The fifth in a series of weekly installments featuring insights from the authors of ‘Images of Mithra’, published in March 2017, looks at coins in the Kushan empire, and why having a name for something isn’t always a good thing.
Continue reading “Mithra: the surprising inadequacy of labels”
The fourth in a series of weekly instalments featuring insights from the authors of ‘Images of Mithra’, published in March 2017, explores how a rock relief in western Iran, carved during the time of the Sasanian Persian Empire (AD 224-651), has been re-imagined over the centuries.
Continue reading “Pilgrimage in Twelver Shi’ism: fieldwork on the Camino de Santiago”
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