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Come learn about Sciencetology and its legal battles from WashU's Prof. Frank Flinn.
Prof. Frank Flinn will discuss the beliefs of Scientology, how it compares to other religions, and the legal hurdles that have faced the religion throughout the years. After his presentation, there will be plenty of time for questions from the audience.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Sponsored by Theta Alpha Kappa, the Religious Studies Honorary. For more information please contact Benjamin Luehrs at bjluehrs@wustl.edu.
- Monday, February 22, 5:00 pm - Weeping Statues and Bleeding Bread: Miracles and Their Theorists
- Wednesday, February 24, 5:00 pm - Living Synecdoche: Parts and Wholes in Medieval Devotion
- Thursday, February 25, 5:00 pm - The Materiality of the Visual: How Did Medieval People See?
In the period between 1150 and 1550 a number of Christians in western Europe made pilgrimage to places where material objects--among them paintings, statues, relics, pieces of wood, earth, stones, and Eucharistic wafers--allegedly erupted into life by such activities as bleeding, weeping, and walking about. In these three lectures, Prof. Bynum will describe the miracles themselves, discuss the problems they presented for both church authorities and the ordinary faithful, and probe the basic assumptions about matter that lay behind them. She will also analyze what modern theorists call “medieval art” and argue that it called attention to its materiality in sophisticated ways that help explain both the animation of images and the iconoclastic resistance to them.
These talks are sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities' Humanities Lecture Series. Please contact Amy Lehman at iph@artsci.wustl.edu or (314) 935-4200 for more information.