S Brent Plate
@splate1
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#Writing on cinema, religion, art. parent, partner, professor. writer, walker. Prefers spirals to circles. Born in the year of the fire horse. 🏳️🌈 they/he
Clinton, NY
Joined April 2009
Transgender Day of Visibility celebrated with Christian art, books and resources
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When @RMikva uses the word tradition, she’s talking about an ever-evolving journey. That applies to how she talks about faith traditions and their built-in tools for self-examination. @AprilCommons
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Did you see Him? Black Jesus is back.
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��The Book of Clarence,” Lil Nas X, “Mrs. Davis” and the resurrection of Black Jesus.
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RIP Norman Jewison. Check out the recent Commons post on Teaching with Jesus Christ Superstar, 50 years on.
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Ian N. Mills (co-host of the New Testament Review podcast), provides a reflection on the pedagogical impact that Jesus Christ Superstar has made fifty years after its initial premier. This piece...
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Great to chat with @ArtAghajanian @visuallysacred about images, technology, and the ways these makes us human. #visuallysacred #visuallysacredpodcast #christianart #religiousart
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Podcast Episode · Visually Sacred: Conversations on the Power of Images · 12/16/2023 · 1h 23m
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ICYMI. From a couple years ago, but still perhaps relevant: What makes Christmas movies so popular https://t.co/IBWoEBcc6b via @ConversationUS
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Holiday movies offer us a glimpse into how the world is could be, often in sharp contrast to our lives as they are. In that way, the annual act of viewing them is like a religious ritual.
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Additionally on Sunday, 11/19, we’ll host a session titled “Religion and Memory: Keywords,” which fill feature @MaterializingB, Lauren Kerby, Laura Levitt, @splate1 and others reflecting on central terms in our field + suggesting new ones. Join us! #AARSBL23
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Sufjan Stevens Songs Were Always Gay and They Were Always About God https://t.co/Tae4oqqgAJ via @them
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The singer-songwriter’s decidedly queer faith has long been an influence on listeners.
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Prof. S. Brent Rodríguez-Plate co-edits book that examines idea of “material religion” and features 30 essays by scholars from around the world. https://t.co/Pdw6Pohymp
@splate1 @ptamimiarab @routledgebooks #Religion
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Meanwhile, @HamiltonCollege the Dean of Students inexplicably fired our much-loved Chaplain of 27 years, suggesting they are moving in “new directions”. 2 months later no new directions are noted and students arrive with almost no Chaplaincy in place.
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Rev. Jeff McArn worries about how student programs will continue, about how other staff feel after his abrupt dismissal
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Check out Lisa H Sideris's essay for @AprilCommons on enchantments, from New Mexico to Big Science, the personal and the political. #downwinders #AtomicBomb #Oppenheimer #ChristopherNolan
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More than 50 years after his death, it remains difficult to discern what Oppenheimer did and did not stand for. Though Nolan sometimes tips his hand, Oppenheimer resists any final resolution of the...
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What to do with death? Art might help.
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New exhibition at the Rubin Museum demonstrates a range of possibilities in the human confrontation with death
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Thinking about #Interfaith and the Parliament of the World's Religions? Check out Reyhan Durmaz's fascinating piece on the Arabic-Christian newspaper Kawkab Amrika and how they looked at interfaith at the turn of the 20th century. #2023PoWR
https://t.co/aLXVVb72Mr
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Kawkab Amrika (“the Star of America”), a newspaper published by Arabic-speaking immigrants in NYC, provides a vital window into what interfaith dialogue meant for Middle Eastern Christians during the...
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Alas, the @AprilCommons colloquium has ended. Such an amazing time talking #Memory with incredible artists, activists, and academics.
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Meet the international group of artists, activists, and academics who will join us for two weeks in July, in NYC.
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Spotlight On: CrossCurrents While wandering the streets of post-World War II Paris, Joseph Cunneen, a US veteran, conceived of CrossCurrents as a vehicle to encourage inter-religious dialogue. In 1950, he published the first issue. https://t.co/RR6ROLLiMd
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I missed this last week, but RIP Ahmad Jamal. Such subtly sweet striking music.
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The pianist and composer’s ideas had a decisive effect on the history of an art form.
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Islamic studies and community engaged learning. #TeachingReligion #CommunityEngagement #IslamicStudies
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What is at stake for each one of us as scholars, educators, and citizens of a particular campus community when we commit to being advocates for a particular position in the public square? And what is...
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