Posts Tagged ‘space’
Four Questions with Sarah Pike (Religion in American History)
An interesting history-related post from Religion in American History:
This post marks the first in a series of short interviews with religious studies scholars and religious historians who work on American topics. I hope to conduct these interviews with senior, junior, and mid-career scholars from the
states and abroad. (Suggestions are always welcome!)This inaugural interview is with Sarah Pike, a professor in the Department of Religious Studies, California State University, Chico. Her innovative work will be familiar to many of our readers. Pike has studied the relationship between religion and ethnicity, identity, and cultural expression. Along with a variety of articles and book chapters, she ...
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First U. S. Manned Space Flight (Naval History Blog)
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Space Shuttle Challenger (American Presidents Blog)
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Apollo 12 Moon Landing (Naval History Blog)
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Disputing Sacred Space in America (RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY)
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Kelly BakerThe newest issue of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief is now available (with a library subscription). For those of unfamiliar with this journal, it is an excellent, interdisciplinary journal that provides cutting edge scholarship on the materiality of religion. Every time the table of contents arrives in my inbox, I stop whatever I am doing to see what the issue holds. The July issue is no different, and it contains a conversation about sacred space in America with Erika Doss, Anthea Butler, Jacob Kinnard, and Edward Linenthal. From outdoor space ...
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Space, Symbol, Dreams & Death in the Artist’s Studio (Art History Today)
An interesting history-related post from Art History Today:
Continuing this series of posts on the artist’s studio with the most speculative one yet. A few themes are explored here; my favourite is the relationship between the painter’s creativity and dreams, a strand of my research.
The Mental Studio
“The studio is no more than a container, a kind of equipment, a room in which to paint or sculpt, a necessary space. In its isolation the artist watches a painting or sculpture, adjusts it, instinctively responsive to pigments, colours and materials, resolving their conflicts, bringing them together. In this way the studio is also an arena in which controlled ...
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President John F. Kennedy