S Brent started following the work of Paolo Aranha, School of Advanced Study, University of London, The Warburg Institute.
S Brent started following the work of Susan Cumings.
S Brent started following the work of Peter Manseau, Washington College, CV Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience.
S Brent New essay on Thomas Kinkade: http://tinyurl.com/7s5por6
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
| Address: | 198 College Hill Rd |
