Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions

Book at Lunchtime held on 8th November 2017. Exploring Buddhism,
Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism, this major exhibition
will be the first to look at the art of the five world religions as
they spread across continents in the first millennium AD. On
display will be remarkable objects created when the iconography of
each religion was still being developed. Art and imagery were
central to the spread of these systems of belief, and the visual
identity of each religion was formed by encounters and interactions
between different faiths and other traditions. Accompanying the
exhibition will be the 'Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of
World Religions' catalogue. Editor Georgi Parpulov and contributor
Stefanie Lenk are joined by an expert panel to discuss the
catalogue and the exhibition at Book at Lunchtime. They will be
joined by: Gervase Rosser (History, University of Oxford) Kate
Cooper (History, Royal Holloway, University of London) This event
will be chaired by Mallica Kumbera Landrus (Eastern Art, Ashmolean
Museum)