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A museum is literally a place of the muses -
appropriate really - thanks for link -
I will pass it on to people at HAD pressure group


Here's an essay i wrote on l"King Soloman's House"


http://www.scribd.com/doc/17709802/King-Solomons-House

Mogg


> This study intrigues me. While I've never been to the British Museum, 
> I've always loved how people leave offerings of coins at the statues 
> of Ganesh at the Met in NYC. Personally, I've always felt that the 
> Museum of Modern Art is a temple! My research for my Master's and now 
> my Ph.D. has been concerned with the connections between religion, 
> ritual, and the arts.
>
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Caroline Tully <[log in to unmask] 
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
>     Wow, this would have been right up my alley with my Postgraduate
>     Diploma subject focus… Not so much now as my PhD is in quite a
>     different area. But surely topical to British Pagans “Honoring the
>     Ancient Dead” and all….?
>
>     ~Caroline Tully.
>
>     *From:* Sociology of Religion [mailto:[log in to unmask]
>     <mailto:[log in to unmask]>] *On Behalf Of *Gordon Lynch
>     *Sent:* Thursday, 22 April 2010 10:28 AM
>     *To:* [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>     *Subject:* Seeing the sacred in the museum - AHRC CDA doctoral
>     studentship available
>
>     *‘Seeing the sacred in the museum: exploring the significance of
>     religious and secular subjectivities for visitor engagment with
>     religious objects’*
>
>     Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society, Birkbeck College,
>     University of London, in collaboration with the British Museum
>
>     * *
>
>     The aim of this doctoral project will be to explore the ways in
>     which visitors engage with religious objects at the British
>     Museum, focusing particularly on whether it is possible to
>     identify ways of seeing or engaging with objects that relate more
>     generally to religious and secular subjectivities. Drawing
>     together current research in material religion and museum visitor
>     research, the award-holder will undertake original empirical work
>     that will both add to our understanding of the performance of
>     religious and secular subjectivities in public cultural spaces as
>     well how museum evaluation work might engage in new ways with
>     religious dimensions of visitor experience.
>
>     The studentship is available from 1 October 2010, and the
>     award-holder will benefit from the wide range of postgraduate
>     support available at Birkbeck as well as from the experience of
>     working closely with colleagues at a world-leading museum. The
>     studentship covers full fees and a maintenance allowance at
>     standard AHRC rates for central London institutions. Potential
>     applicants should check their eligibility for the award before
>     submitting their application at
>     http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Documents/Guide%20to%20Student%20Eligibility.pdf
>
>     The deadline for completed applications is 1 June 2010, with
>     interviews planned to take place before the end of June. For
>     further details about the studentship (including how to apply), go
>     to http://www.bbk.ac.uk/crcs/postgraduate/BM_CDA_studentship
>
>     Gordon Lynch
>
>     Professor of Sociology of Religion and Director of the Centre for
>     Religion and Contemporary Society
>
>     Birkbeck College
>
>     University of London
>
>     26 Russell Square
>
>     London
>
>     WC1B 5DQ
>
>     +44(0)20 7631 6658
>
>     http://www.bbk.ac.uk/crcs
>
>