Daniel Sack ruminates on the role of food in the religious lives of whitebread Protestants. Mary Ann Clark looks closely at the material culture of Santeria , focusing on a Seven African Powers candle, and offers a warning to students of material religion. Enrico Cumbo compares a religious food ritual in Italy with the festa of the transplanted community in Toronto. Heather Hartel finds important meaning in church signs . Colleen McDannell exhibits government photography of the 1930s and reflects on how those pictures depicted American religious life.
Religion is everywhere in American movies.
Judith Weisenfeld has put together a useful filmography and bibliography to help you track it down. Patricia Appelbaum looks at the the political and ethical uses of clothing, art, and other aspects of material pacifism. Project scholar Leigh Schmidt talks with us about the Enlightenment, the history of the senses, and hearing God . James Hudnut-Beumler , the project's director, discussed the economic history of American religion , and reflected on the project's work.