SARTS Annual Meeting 2011 Recap

SARTS Annual Meeting 2011 Recap

Read all about the SARTS Annual Meeting & Events 2011!

Now Accepting 2012-13 Fellowship Applications

Now Accepting 2012-13 Fellowship Applications

SARTS Faculty and Student Fellowships, made possible through a grant from the Henry A. Luce...

Featured Artist Kimberly Vrudny

Featured Artist Kimberly Vrudny

Kimberly Vrudny. “30 Years / 30 Lives” invites viewers to look, trusting that the real...

  • SARTS Annual Meeting 2011 Recap

    SARTS Annual Meeting 2011 Recap

  • Now Accepting 2012-13 Fellowship Applications

    Now Accepting 2012-13 Fellowship Applications

  • Featured Artist Kimberly Vrudny

    Featured Artist Kimberly Vrudny

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Welcome to the online home of the Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, an academic society of scholars and practitioners of religious studies and the arts. Ours is an organization that purposefully sits at the intersection of a variety of trajectories—of scholarship, artistry and pedagogy—with the intention of fostering collaboration among these often disparate strands in our educational and ministerial institutions and academic societies.

 

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JaneHirshfield

Poet Jane Hirshfield addresses SARTS session at AAR

What exactly is poetry? Or, more to the point: what sort of art is poetry, and what does the poet’s work teach us about the arts in more general terms? In keeping with SARTS’s tradition of inviting artists to address us as one component of our scheduled sessions, this year’s annual meeting featured poet Jane Hirshfield who explored such questions in her presentation “Given Sugar, Given Salt: Poetry, Art, and Inclusion.” 

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alejandro garcia rivera

SARTS panel honors Alejandro Garcia-Rivera

Pioneering theologian Alejandro (Alex) García-Rivera (1951-2010) was a committed scholar to the end. During the last weeks of his life, as Alex met with colleagues and students who came to his bedside, he constantly expressed the hope that the “paradigm shift” he had begun would continue to gain momentum. Shortly after his passing, his current and former students and colleagues began to think of ways to honor him while moving the scholarly conversation about theological aesthetics forward. This had been his last charge to them.

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Now Accepting 2012-13 Fellowship Applications

SARTS Faculty and Student Fellowships, made possible through a grant from the Henry A. Luce Foundation, seek to advance knowledge at the intersections between theology and the arts by supporting the research of graduate degree students and faculty, particularly newer faculty whose career and future contributions to the study of the intersection of the arts and religious and theological studies may be influenced by this support.

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