Presented By: Department of Anthropology
CANCELED: A HISTORY OF RELIGION IN 5 1/2 OBJECTS:
Spirituality Meets Sensuality
THE ABRAHAMIC SENSORIUM
Learning about Judaism. Christianity, and Islam through the Senses
A HISTORY OF RELIGION IN 5 1/2 OBJECTS: Spirituality Meets Sensuality
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FRIDAY, MARCH 20
4:00-6:00pm
MICHIGAN LEAGUE
3rd Floor, Room D
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Professor Plate takes a fresh and much-needed approach to religion. He
suggests that religious life and practice be understood as deriving from basic sensual experiences. Putting aside questions of belief and abstract ideas, he instead challenges us to begin with the incomplete human body, as he guides our focus toward five ordinary types of objects—stones, incense, drums, crosses, and bread.
His talk is based on his book, A History of Religion in 5 ½ Objects, which is a celebration of the materiality of religious life. Plate moves our understanding of religion away from the current obsessions with God, fundamentalism, and science— and toward the rich depths of this world, this body, these things. Religion, it turns out, has as much to do with our bodies as our beliefs. Maybe more.
A Presentation by S. BRENT PLATE
S. Brent Plate is a writer, editor, public speaker, and is an associate professor of religious studies, by special appointment, at Hamilton College. He is author/editor of fourteen books, including Religion and Film, and Blasphemy: Art that Offends. He is co-founder and managing editor of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief, and President of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life/CrossCurrents.
Learning about Judaism. Christianity, and Islam through the Senses
A HISTORY OF RELIGION IN 5 1/2 OBJECTS: Spirituality Meets Sensuality
________________________________________
FRIDAY, MARCH 20
4:00-6:00pm
MICHIGAN LEAGUE
3rd Floor, Room D
________________________________________
Professor Plate takes a fresh and much-needed approach to religion. He
suggests that religious life and practice be understood as deriving from basic sensual experiences. Putting aside questions of belief and abstract ideas, he instead challenges us to begin with the incomplete human body, as he guides our focus toward five ordinary types of objects—stones, incense, drums, crosses, and bread.
His talk is based on his book, A History of Religion in 5 ½ Objects, which is a celebration of the materiality of religious life. Plate moves our understanding of religion away from the current obsessions with God, fundamentalism, and science— and toward the rich depths of this world, this body, these things. Religion, it turns out, has as much to do with our bodies as our beliefs. Maybe more.
A Presentation by S. BRENT PLATE
S. Brent Plate is a writer, editor, public speaker, and is an associate professor of religious studies, by special appointment, at Hamilton College. He is author/editor of fourteen books, including Religion and Film, and Blasphemy: Art that Offends. He is co-founder and managing editor of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief, and President of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life/CrossCurrents.
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