Faculty Member, Religious Studies
About
My work focuses on the material aspects of religious experience. I'm interested in what religious humans look at, smell, and otherwise sense, and how religious traditions continue, in part, because they work to train our senses in particular ways. People learn to attach particular meanings to particular sense experiences through ritualized and mythologized environments.
I've written especially on the visual arts in relation to religions, including books on "Blasphemy," "Religion and Film," and work in religious visual culture.
In 2004 I helped launch the journal "Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief," and currently serve as Managing Editor. http://www.bergpublishers.com/JournalsHomepage/MaterialReligion/tabid/
More info and links can be found at my website:
http://www.sbrentplate.net
Contact Information
198 College Hill Rd
Hamilton College
Clinton, NY 13323
USA
