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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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Empires of FaithJuly 17, 2017Leave a comment

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, 2017September 13, 2022Leave 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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Empires of FaithJune 26, 2017June 29, 2017Leave a comment

Keeping up momentum: comparative approaches to art and religion

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.

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Empires of FaithJune 14, 2017June 14, 2017Leave a comment

Making a start: thinking religion through images and objects

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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Empires of FaithMay 23, 2017May 23, 2017Leave a comment

Mithra in Commagene: some sort of mix-up

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.

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Empires of FaithMay 3, 2017July 6, 20171 Comment

Mithra: the surprising inadequacy of labels

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.

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Empires of FaithApril 27, 2017July 6, 2017Leave a comment

Mithra, Mihr, and Zarathushtra

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.

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Empires of FaithApril 21, 2017July 6, 2017Leave a comment

Mithras – what is there to say?

The third in a series of weekly instalments featuring insights from the authors of ‘Images of Mithra‘, published in March 2017, questions what we can learn from seemingly the most permanent of all Mithraic remains – sculptures carved into the living rock.

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Empires of FaithApril 14, 2017July 6, 2017Leave a comment

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