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-HouseMogg
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.
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*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
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