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Tag Archives: material culture
Field Notes: Colloquium on Material Culture and Ancient Religion (COMCAR) 2013
This year’s Colloquium on Material Culture and Ancient Religion (COMCAR) will focus on sites in the north Aegean region, with consideration also of broader temporal and cultural contexts. The theme for 2013 is, “Navigating Roman Macedonia: Intersections of Empires Along … Continue reading
Ways of Seeing: On the Role of Images in “Religious” Violence
By A.T. Coates Haven’t we seen this before? When the so-called “Danish Cartoon Controversy” sparked protests around the world in 2005, American media outlets spoke vaguely and often about how the image offended “Muslim beliefs.” Seven years later, and again … Continue reading
Posted in A.T. Coates, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method
Tagged "Innocence of Muslims", blasphemy, Danish Cartoons, fundamentalism, Habitus, material culture, material religion, Saba Mahmood
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Material Remnants as Cultural Signifiers: A Roman Lamp – Practical or Sacral Object?
By Philip L. Tite As an historian who studies ancient religious traditions, I am constantly concerned about how we evaluate and use our sources. Although source analysis tends to be seen as a key component in first order data collection … Continue reading
Posted in Philip L. Tite
Tagged archaeology, late antiquity, material culture, religious studies, scholarship, textual analysis
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