The Victorians: Religion and Science If there was any single belief that characterised the Victorian...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer This lecture will explore the 'celebrification' of contemporary popular culture...
Christian Themes in Art: The Resurrection in Art This is the most difficult of all Christian themes to...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer The historian Daniel Boorstin famously defined a celebrity as "a...
Christian Themes in Art: The Passion in Art There are no surviving depictions of Jesus on the cross...
Who Am I?: Emotions and Questions of the Self Contemporary debates on the self often overlook emotion, even though...
Who Am I?: The Dialogical Self in Hinduism and Buddhism Based on texts of the Indian tradition, this lecture discusses...
A New Jerusalem: Reaching for Heaven, 1130-1300 During the thirteenth century Jerusalem surplanted Rome as the inspiration...