Objects curated : How curators ascribe a new significance to their objects, but still offer them respect even when keeping them under tight control -- Objects visited : How religious objects relate to ...

The University of Chicago has received a $2.45 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative. In its first phase, the project will focus on ...

Museum Architecture and the Sacred: Modes of Engagement / Gretchen Buggeln -- Toward a Theology of the Art Museum / Karla Cavarra Britton -- Native Americans on the National Mall: the architecture of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Holy cards are highly collectible but also very, very numerous. Ryan O'Grady, The Marian Library, University of Dayton, CC BY-SA ...

Hidden under years of dirt and grime in storage rooms, hundreds of precious religious objects have been rediscovered at a monastery in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu. Gilded crowns worn by Buddhist ...

When a rosary was made for King Henry VIII in 1509, it was hand-carved in intricate detail by a master artisan. By contrast, many of the rosaries around today are made from the same plastic that goes ...

'Tacky and 'kitsch' religious souvenirs brought back from pilgrimage sites offer pilgrims and their friends and family who cannot make the journey a deeper religious connection. Research by Dr ...