Karin S. Kendricks and June Boyce-Tillman, eds. Queering Freedom: Music, Identity, and Spirituality. (Anthology with perspectives from over ten countries). Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018, xxi + 374 pp. £44 Eighteen contributors, a wide interdisciplinary engagement, and international institutional bases…
There is a tale about Diogenes, the ancient Greek philosopher, in which he and some of his disciples were people-watching outside an arena. The story goes that a group of Corinthian youth walk by in their silver makeup, absorbed in…
The TheoArtistry Student-Led Partnerships Project, run by the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts in 2018-19, represented a new development in the exploration of the intersection of art and theology. Designed and overseen by theologians Rebekah Dyer and Caleb…
The Templeton Religion Trust is currently calling for proposals for studies that will contribute to its Art Seeking Understanding program initiative. This program will be engaging with the theory of aesthetic cognitivism, which proposes that the arts provide a distinctive…
Michael R. Candelaria, The Latino Christ in Art, Literature, and Liberation Theology (Querencias Series). Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018, 272pp., $65.00 cloth. Michael Candelaria’s basic premise behind his book The Latino Christ in Art, Literature, and Liberation Theology is that there…
At the centre of the first season of the BAFTA-winning comedy Fleabag is the gleefully promiscuous eponymous protagonist, played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, whose answer to most of life’s questions is sex. [1] So when Season 2 introduces into its bawdy and…
When Monty Python’s Life of Brian arrived on Netflix in April 2018, a controversial piece of cinema history returned to public prominence. A film which treated religious themes with an indecorous irreverence that some Christians found unpalatable was introduced to the…
Malcolm Guite, In Every Corner Sing: A Poet’s Corner Collection. Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2018, 196 pp., £14.99 hardcover. Reverend Dr. Malcolm Guite’s poetic spirit is not only found in his well-known sonnets, as evidenced by his most recent book of…
In Holy Week I witnessed three tragedies. The first came while I was helping ITIA Resident Artist Daniel Drage install a sculpture, holding the ladder as he climbed up to begin preparations for the Transept space( )between event at St…