Ronald Reagan's election sparked a counterrevolution in the arts community, with Dylan, Bono and Scorsese among those showing their faith, sometimes controversially, in work of that era.

That disdain for such rigidity — that desire to explore nuance, complexity, doubt — can drive many away from religion. And it can lead some of them into the arts. Now, decades after those ...

However you codify it, “crypto-religious art“ is an appealing concept, and one of wide and continuing application: What else do you call a film like Magnolia, with its Book of Exodus ...

Religion and the Arts is an interdisciplinary publication where interpretations of old and new works can appear. We look for explorations of new terrain as well as summaries and critiques of existing ...

This experience started Elkins thinking about “the exclusion of religious meaning in contemporary art,” the subject of his book On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art ...

By journeying through seminal texts, rituals, art forms, myths, ethics, philosophies and experiences of the sacred, you arrive at a deepened understanding of religion in the world. Religious studies ...

On the other hand . . . the church has begun to produce theologians and critics who have dealt authoritatively with culture and the arts, as well as artists of genuine stature . . . Religion has a ...

“They became very religious, and that was a shock in the Israeli cultural scene.” The bridge that Noa Lea Cohn wants to build with her art project connects two worlds, and not just sociall ...

‘Whosoever thou art that judges,’ declares St. Paul ... must insist on the obligation of the state not only to teach religion but to teach the ‘true religion.’ ...

Edward Berger didn’t grow up Catholic. “I was raised outside the church, but if we went, it would be the Protestant Church,” he says over the phone. But when he was 9, he attended a Catholic ...