#Religion and the Arts

[jahbillah]

On Judah to Jamaica and Rastafari hermeneutics

On Judah to Jamaica and Rastafari hermeneutics

Ras Fari Joseph, 2012 Verses, names, symbols, and concepts from ancient Judah can come to figure centrally in a religious movement of modern Jamaica only through an unusually varied and extensive series of religious and cultural transmissions. This process of conceptual transformation and confluence has been the object of interest and inquiry in its own right, as scholars have attempted to trace…

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#2012 #Afro-Carribean #babylon #Bob Marley #From Judah to Jamaica: #hermeneutics #intertextuality #Joseph Thompson #Judah #King James Version #KJV #memes #modulating traditions #Peter Tosh #RASTA #rastafari #Rastafari reggae #Rastas #Religion and the Arts #Zion

[wolfythewitch]

i have so much rage in me one day i think i will explode. i dont think i know how to forgive as much as i know how to forget

#art #wolfy religious tedtalks #sketch #comic #i have such a huge disconnect with my emotions and i do genuinely think a lot of it ties back to religion #crazy how that happens #whats funny is i now have a lot of people i vaguely dislike but cant remember why. #crazy what happens when you treat forgiveness like an instruction and not a process

[alienbycomics]

Gender Nonconforming Jesus: A look at art history. CW: religion, transphobia, artistic nudity, depictions of open wounds (Long post)

#long post #trans woman #trans man #transgender #cw transphobes #cw wounds #cw religion #exvangelical #ex fundamentalist #ex religious #art history #trans artist #transfem #trans history #lgbtq history #gender nonconforming #cw artistic nudity

[smugpugchimera]

An Angel

id by @magz

[ID: Art of abstract smoke-like mirage with radiating light. It vaguely has butterfly wings, a halo, and a black hole for a face. End ID]

#angels #art #digital art #original art #artists on tumblr #cw religion #described

[the-evil-clergyman]

Eve by Solomon Joseph Solomon (1908)

#solomon joseph solomon #art #paintings #fine art #1900s #1900s art #academicism #academism #academic art #painting #british art #british artist #religion #religious art #eve #angels #classic art

[that-house]

I just saw perhaps the coolest art installation I have ever heard of.

This is a perfectly normal pin. On the head of it are 2.417 quintillion angels, give or take a few billion.

Joe Davis and Sarah Khan, the artist behind Baitul Ma’mur, (House of Angels) encoded the Arabic phrase “Subhan Allah” onto synthesized DNA, and then used that DNA to coat the head of a pin. According to some traditions, any time Subhan Allah is said or written, it creates an angel. With DNA being as dense an information storage medium as it is, this single pin has more created angels on it than have ever been born from human throats across all of human history.

And then in a fucking genius move, the art installation takes the form of a functional vending machine, loaded with an impossibly large quantity of angels. For $25, which goes right to the artists, you can buy a pin. I’m thinking about taking mine out of the test tube sometime and encasing it in resin to turn it into the highest % angel by volume earring ever worn, but that’s a project for the future.

There isn’t much else I can say that isn’t said by the documentation accompanying the exhibit. The photos aren’t the BEST quality but they should hopefully be mostly legible.

As of right now this installation is located at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and if you’re ever in the area you should totally check it out

#i was near boston and figured i’d visit lol #very cool place #art #religion

[yeehawpim]

a comic about brothers

#original comic #norse mythology #religion and lore #mythology #jormungandr #fenrir #loki's children #comic #my comic #my art

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am tired of making a religion out of my suffering’.

[text id: i am too little, and too much, and never enough.]

#fatima aamer bilal #i am tired of making a religion out of my suffering #poetry #yearning #longing #parent issues #childhood #girlhood #poeticstories #art #book quotes #poetry collection #literature #lit #web weave #typography #bts #book quotations #fantasy #poem #prose #franz kafka #sylvia plath #lana del rey #mitski #hozier #self loathing #pheobe bridgers #dark academia #mahmoud darwish

[taruolentow]

when she dies, you will follow her. this was never going to end well: you know this already.

#love like a religion <3 #my art #fanart #anime #mahou shoujo madoka magica #puella magi madoka magica #madohomu #madoka magica #madoka kaname #akemi homura #illustration #art #magical girl #mahou shoujo

[junotter]

Part 2 of my modern avatar au, The Gaang (part 1)

#avatar aang #atla katara #atla toph #atla sokka #atla suki #atla #avatar the last airbender #modern avatar #atla modern au #my art #atla fanart #kataang #CAUSE THEY ARE IMPORTANT IN THIS AU #lots of inner debates on how to deal with aang's tattoos and if to make him say an actual buddhist #decided that he and monk gyatso (plus a handful of others) are/were part of a largely dying religion of a nomadic group #from the himalayan/tibetan plateau region that's a mix of buddhism hinduism and other religions (plus air nomad culture) #due to the politics of region aang and gyatso traveled around the world which is how he met katara and sokka #who were on a fieldtrip in the south (of canada) #they live in the Qikiqtaaluk Region originally in a smaller northern town but to continue their schooling they moved to iqaluit #Toph is from China and she met the gaang during the first big trip sokka katara and aang took together (at aangs begging) #meet her the summer before katara's first semester of college (so she was 18 aang 16 sokka 19 toph 16) #also by 16 aang is his own guardian cause of gyatso's death so he just does whatever p much #suki from okinawa and they meet briefly another summer of college when traveling to a bunch of islands in the pacific #suki specializes in and teaches ryukyuan martial arts (she's ryukyuan) #all reunite after sokka and katara's graduation (katara graduates a year early) during aang sokka and kataras celebration world tour #where they come into full actual contact with the fire nation crew #they are all in their twenties in these expect for monk aang who is a teen #hehe i cant wait to make more for this auuuu

[alouvrr]

eye of the vulture king

#ahhhh I feel like I drew buddy too innocent here. wish I could give more indicators that he is being manipulated #but all the stuff I drew felt too cheesy! #my art #buddy dawn #kristen applebees #fantasy high #fhjy #d20 #unironically that one minute segment changed my feelings about buddy so bad. evangelicals who die without questioning their faith #make me feel so tragic #trauma bonding w these two would be fun but also consider: he meets helio in the afterlife and see what a wreck his religion is and #wants to help helio out lmao #would be fun

[wolfythewitch]

Happy pride :)

#passes him the pride flag like hozier getting the lesbian flag #art #sketch #jesus christ #religion #wolfy religious tedtalks #digital art #christianity

[thefoilguy]

Pieta by Michelangelo - Aluminum Foil Sculpture

#pieta #michelangelo #renissance #traditional art #classic art #virgin mary #jesus of nazareth #jesus christ #religion #christianity #judaism #hebrew #roman catholic #catholic

[illustratus]

Full moon behind the Temple Expiatori del Sagrat Cor, on the summit of Mount Tibidabo in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

#temple #church #sacred heart #moon #architecture #neo gothic #gothic #barcelona #catalonia #spain #art #europe #european #christian #christianity #history #religion #religious #churches #temples #full moon #jesus #jesus christ #christ

[revlischarm]

I don’t know what they were expecting.

#art #my art #luzo #zolu #op #one piece #roronoa zoro #they’re holding up a snail to interview him #don’t worry about it #Zoro believes in nothing except for Luffy #Zoro is Luffy’s most devout follower #his most dedicated little guy #zoro is a one-man religion sometimes #as a treat

[cadaverkeys]

Henry Ossawa Tanner's depiction of the Annunciation will always be my absolute favourite but I really do think there is something so ethereal and endearing about his study before the official artwork was completed.

The way Mary sits with almost no visible features but you can still tell that her hands are clasped in prayer- the angel Gabriel manifesting as a single stroke of light as the paint and room seems to contort around him. Easily one of the all timers.

#rambles #i dont normally talk about stuff like this on main #but i mean. after the halo info post you guys are well aware that i study religious art for fun. #religion / #christianity /