FYSM 176 - Shock and Awe:Religious Art in Controversy

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Trinity College

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Public responses to explicitly religious art create opportunities to explore the rich and meaningful relationships between religion and public life, piety, popular culture, and religious teaching. This seminar will examine a series of contemporary art works from several media, each of which produced a response from institutions of religion, practitioners of faith, or the general public. As we examine the art object, the artist, their contexts and responses to them, we will consider the significance of these art works in public dialogue and understandings of religion(s). We will draw on the history of religions, theology as well as popular journalism in our assessment of religious art in our times. The Buddhas of Bamyan; Madonna's "Like A Prayer" video; Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ"; the film "Fitna,"; the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons "The Holy Virgin Mary" by Chris Ofili, and the more recent movie, "The Golden Compass" will be among the works we study. A field trip to the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford will make for extra fun. Conversation will be far-reaching and our writing assignments will be frequent, various, and help us all discover our voices in class, our style for the written page, and develop our skills for academi 1.00 units, Seminar

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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