Centre for Studies in the Visual Culture of Religion

The Centre is committed to the visual culture of religion – a relatively recent and a pioneering academic field. It aims to study those aspects of the material, phenomenal, and transcendental expressions of religions that are apprehensible by ‘sight’ (in both the perceptual and imaginal sense). This is with a view to developing a fuller knowledge and understanding of the visual traditions of specific systems of faith, as well as (eventually) a holistic and unified conception of religious visuality within a global and multi-faith context. The Centre’s activities include the publication of academic texts, the origination of conferences and exhibitions, and the practice-based research of visual and sonic ‘images’ in relation to religion.