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VCU’s Library Exhibit: Comics & “Religious Imagination in Popular Culture”

Virginia Commonwealth University is featuring a new gallery exhibition entitled, “Gods and Prophets, Sages and Saints: Religious Imagination in Popular Culture.” Their James Branch Cabell Library Special Collections feature a variety of comics works that,

while the temptation is to assume that religious expression in popular media must be kitsch–or at least bad art–and probably bad theology, a closer look reveals a more complex reality. While many examples of those stereotypes exist, there are also examples of deep spirituality and fine storytelling resulting in works of great power and beauty.

No reviews of the exhibit have been made known yet to Sacred and Sequential, however:

Religion and Comics at Regional AAR, Rocky Mountain/Great Plains

The Rocky Mountain/Great Plains Regional AAR/SBL/ASOR annual meeting features a panel of Sacred and Sequential colleagues discussing “Comics as an Act of Discovery in the Study of Religion.” Panelists include Dan Clanton (Doane College), Terry Clark (Georgetown College), and Elizabeth Coody (University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology). The discussion will be moderated by Leonard Greenspoon of Creighton University.

Rocky Mountain-Great Plains Region of the American Academy of Religion

Elizabeth will also be moderating “Christian Popular Culture” during the second full day of the conference as well. Find the full program listing here.