Review: Peacebuilding and the Arts
Jolyon Mitchell, Giselle Vincett, Theodora Hawksley, and Hal Culbertson, eds. Peacebuilding and the Arts. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020, xxii + 483 pp., £89.99 hardcover, £71.50…
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Godly Play: Bruegel’s ‘Children’s Games’
At the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, there is a room featuring a number of paintings by Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Vibrant…
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Review: Michael R. Candelaria: The Latino Christ in Art, Literature, and Liberation Theology
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…
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2018 Arts and Faith Ecumenical Jury – Part Two: Honourable Mentions
In Part One of this series, the Arts and Faith Ecumenical Jury revealed their Top 10 films of 2018. For Part Two, each film…
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2018 Arts and Faith Ecumenical Jury – Part One: Top 10
We are honoured at Transpositions to host the 2018 Arts and Faith Ecumenical Jury Top 10 Films, based at www.artsandfaith.com. Since 2014, the Ecumenical Jury…
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Truly Unconventional Christmas Films for the Bleak Midwinter
The traditional popular Christmas film is typically full of holiday joy and good cheer, as exemplified by enduring classics like the musical White Christmas,…
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The Pittenweem Arts Festival: An Interview with Barbara Fleming
Editor’s Note: Every August, the village of Pittenweem in Fife’s East Neuk hosts the Pittenweem Arts Festival. Transpositions Associate Editor Joel Mayward recently interviewed…
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Motion Pictures, Mary Magdalene and #MeToo
I find it sadly ironic that Garth Davis’s exquisite 2018 film Mary Magdalene became an unexpected victim in the #MeToo movement which emerged following the…
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Review: Art for Mission’s Sake
Keir Shreeves. Art for Mission’s Sake: Announcing the Gospel Through the Creative Arts. Cambridge: Grove Books Limited, 2017, 1-28pp., £3.95. Keir Shreeves’ concise booklet…
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