Author: Lydia Cosculluela

“Keeping the Goddess in Place in South India: Architectural Changes Transforming Village Goddesses” with Joyce Burkhalter-Flueckiger

This talk is part of a larger project that analyzes the agency of five different materialities, beyond what human interactions and/or agency may be in the use of those materials. In this talk, I focus on one of these forms of materiality: the new architecture of small and expanding cement shrines of village goddesses (gramadevatas) […]

Material Religion Lecture Series: “Visual Piety and the Construction of Children in the Modern Islamic World” with Jamal Elias

Thursday, February 21, 2019 The Scripture and the Arts program is proud to present our first speaker of 2019, Dr. Jamal Elias speaking on “Visual Piety and the Construction of Children in the Modern Islamic World.” Elias, the current chair of the Department of Religious Studies at UPenn, is a Walter H. Annenberg professor of […]