"In tandem with the December 2022 print edition of A.i.A., the Religion Issue, we revisit this article from the July 1997 issue. Originally published as “Sacred Silhouettes,” the article was penned by Robert Farris Thompson (1932-2021), a _...Read More_

"SINCE 1984, Andres Serrano has developed a complex iconography that simultaneously exorcises the artist’s experiences of Catholicism, criticizes the commercialization of sacred imagery and pays idiosyncratic homage to ideas that Christ _...Read More_

"Over time, the prominence of Christian socialism waned, both inside and outside the Left. After 1917, the prestige of Bolshevism solidified the position within the Left of a militantly atheistic form of Marxism. Meanwhile, with the advent _...Read More_

"AT SOME POINT in the last 50 years of daily Washington Capital Beltway traffic updates, reporters stopped saying the “Mormon Temple” and just called it the “Temple.” As there is no other temple of glowing white marble and stained glass, _...Read More_

"Despite the fact that the modernist creed was often framed in quasi-theological terms, contemporary artists have tended to be squeamish about religion. Professions of religious belief have seemed somehow antithetical to the _...Read More_

"On the occasion of the December 2022 print edition of A.i.A., the Religion Issue, we revisit this article from February 1997 that also explores how religion can play a significant role in shaping artists’ world views and artwork. In this _...Read More_

>"So why do we talk about God only when we’re fighting about something?"

"A few years ago, we might have accepted that the internet was killing religion. But what if it's making new ones in its image?"

>"The Court showed uncharacteristic decency in a decision that provides religious accommodations for death row inmates."

"Martin Hägglund responds to his critics and expands on the immanent critique of religion found in his book "This Life."..."

>"In a 1914 essay, Eugene V. Debs pronounced Jesus “the world’s supreme revolutionary leader” and “as real and persuasive a historic character as John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, or Karl Marx.” We reprint the essay here in full as our _...Read More_

>"In “Crossroads,” bad decisions and bad faith weigh down the characters—and propel the novel to startling heights."

>"The company is intensifying formal partnerships with faith groups across the United States and shaping the future of religious experience."