Categories: American Religion, Anthropology of Christianity, Religion/media, Visual Culture – Posted on November 25, 2012 Martin Kemp, “Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon” (2012) Martin Kemp, Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon (2012) – Review by A.T. Coates Kemp’s lavishly illustrated art history … Continue reading >Martin Kemp, “Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon” (2012)
Categories: Visual Culture – Posted on September 23, 2012 Scene from the Duke-UNC rivalry, 1939 Like any good cultural historian, I spent part of my Sunday evening poking around the Library of Congress digital archive. … Continue reading >Scene from the Duke-UNC rivalry, 1939
Categories: American Religion, Visual Culture – Posted on September 22, 2012 Christian Advertising’s lighter side… a Revolution in Corsets. People often talk about Christian advertising as if it is something new, a sign of secularism’s “takeover” of Christianity. But … Continue reading >Christian Advertising’s lighter side… a Revolution in Corsets.
Categories: American Religion, Dispensationalism, Fundamentalism, Theories of Religion, Visual Culture – Posted on September 21, 2012 Find A.T. Coates all over the internet… I’m A.T. Coates, a Duke PhD student in American Religion. You can find me all over the internet. When my … Continue reading >Find A.T. Coates all over the internet…
Categories: Fundamentalism, Theories of Religion, Visual Culture – Posted on September 20, 2012 Ways of Seeing: On the Role of Images in “Religious” Violence (repost) Haven’t we seen this before? When the so-called “Danish Cartoon Controversy” sparked protests around the world in 2005, American media … Continue reading >Ways of Seeing: On the Role of Images in “Religious” Violence (repost)