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upennrels: From the Pew Global Attitudes Project - “The...

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:57:27 -0500

From the Pew Global Attitudes Project - “The American-Western European Values Gap” - “…Americans also distinguish themselves from Western Europeans on views about the importance of religion. Half of Americans deem religion very important in their lives; fewer than a quarter in Spain (22%), Germany (21%), Britain (17%) and France (13%) share this view. Moreover, Americans are far more inclined than Western Europeans to say it is necessary to believe in God in order to be moral and have good values… American Christians are more likely than their Western European counterparts to think of themselves first in terms of their religion rather than their nationality…” [Read more]

Antonio Spadaro S.I.: The Archbishop of Canterbury about the Pope on Twitter

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:31:25 -0500

Antonio Spadaro S.I.: The Archbishop of Canterbury about the Pope on Twitter:

antoniospadaro:

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has spoken on BBC Radio 2’s Pause for Thought programme about the positive effects that social media can offer to small initiatives by bringing them to a larger audience. He said:

Everyone seems to be amazed that the Pope is tweeting – and…

upennrels: From Annette Yoshiko Reed’s entry for the 2008 Katz...

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:29:27 -0500

upennrels:

From Annette Yoshiko Reed’s entry for the 2008 Katz Center Online Exhibit: “This book, from Penn’s Rare Book and Manuscript collection, is one of the earliest printed versions of the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions. The Recognitions were written in Greek in fourth-century Syria (possibly in Edessa). Today, the text of the Recognitions is preserved in whole only in Rufinus’ Latin translation of 407 C.E… The 1526 Basel edition, pictured here, was printed by Johannes Sichard….”

theparisreview: “They say that history is told by the winners,...

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:53:31 -0500

theparisreview:

“They say that history is told by the winners, but in this case, the narrative has been dominated by the loser.“

Scott and Longfellow: Partners in the Long, Mild Twilight.

thegetty: Advent Calendr | December 20Agate Cameo Ring, Roman...

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:50:10 -0500

thegetty:

Advent Calendr | December 20
Agate Cameo Ring, Roman (in a modern gold setting), A.D. 400–500. The J. Paul Getty Museum

TODAY’S CANDY: A hand pinches an earlobe, an ancient Roman request for attention.

thegetty: Conservation in progress on an 1,800-year-old silver...

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:18:11 -0500

thegetty:

Conservation in progress on an 1,800-year-old silver plate. It’s one of 93 Roman treasures coming back to life through painstaking cleaning, which starts with…water and Q-tips.

Plate with Portrait of Maia and Mercury, 2nd–3rd century A.D. Silver and gold. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris

More from our conservators on the Berthouville Treasure.

Inside the World of Turkish Oil Wrestling

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:19:09 -0400

Inside the World of Turkish Oil Wrestling:

Turkish photographer Pari Dukovic photographed the sport of yağlı güreş, or oil wrestling. The sport is at the heart of Kırkpınar, a festival in the Turkish city of Edirne which is soon celebrating its 651st anniversary.

Here is a video recording the uncovering of the ancient Roman...

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:47:00 -0400

Here is a video recording the uncovering of the ancient Roman mosaic at the Sanctuary of Poseidon at the beginning of the 2012 archaeological season. The mosaic, from the Roman Bath, is an example of one of the most well-preserved monochromatic mosaics from Roman antiquity. For preservation purposes, the mosaic is covered again at the end of each season.

"Serpent handlers, like other Christians, have chosen something to emphasize. Over the course of two..."

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 05:05:22 -0400

“Serpent handlers, like other Christians, have chosen something to emphasize. Over the course of two thousand years, others have chosen the precise nature and identity of Christ, the proper understanding and practice of the Eucharist, the correct way to baptize, the proper way to organize a church, which day of the week to call the Sabbath, and any number of other things as the sine qua non of being a true Christian, and in each case some other Christians have regarded that defining center of faith as ‘adiaphora’ — something indifferent.”

- —Seth Perry, excerpted from his commentary “Adiaphora and the Dark Extremes of an Eccentric Faith”

How do we respect the depth of a Christian snake handler’s faith — and talk about it without caricaturing or lauding his life?

(via beingblog)

"A pretty girl can run as fast as a ‘plain Jane.’ Lipstick, powder and plain..."

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 04:51:00 -0400

“A pretty girl can run as fast as a ‘plain Jane.’ Lipstick, powder and plain old-fashioned femininity are as important to most track stars as their shoes and uniforms. …being an athlete doesn’t make them Amazons or stupid.”

- Edward Temple, coach of the U.S. Olympic Women’s Team 1960 (Faces of Title IX)

theparisreview: “I don’t believe one writes for oneself. I...

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:44:13 -0400

theparisreview:

“I don’t believe one writes for oneself. I think that writing is an act of love—you write in order to give something to someone else. To communicate something. To have other people share your feelings. This problem of how long your work can survive is fundamental for every writer, not just for a novelist or a poet. The truth is, the philosopher writes his book in order to convince a lot of people of his theories, and he hopes that in the next three thousand years people will still read that book. It is just as you hope that your kids survive you, and that if you have a grandchild he survives your children. One hopes for a sense of continuity. When a writer says, I am not interested in the destiny of my book, he is simply a liar. He says so to please the interviewer.”

—Umberto Eco, The Art of Fiction No. 197

beingblog: Attending a three-hour service at the Halki...

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 04:17:05 -0400

beingblog:

Attending a three-hour service at the Halki Monastery church on the island of Heybeliada. Gorgeous setting. (Taken with Instagram)

thegetty: Roman Runway at the Villa.

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 04:11:57 -0400

thegetty:

Roman Runway at the Villa.

"… sport has risen to the level of a world power, an authority that tends to obscure, overhang and..."

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 04:11:02 -0400

“… sport has risen to the level of a world power, an authority that tends to obscure, overhang and infuse all activities in a society ravaged by the disarray of mutilated individuals, without any collective project. Sport has established itself as the spearhead of an army in battle order, which crushes anyone who is stupefied by it. The steamroller of decadent modernity, sport flattens everything as it passes and becomes the sole project of a society without projects.”

- Marc Perelman, professor of aesthetics at the Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Défense, as quoted in the Guardian’s review of his Barbaric Sport: A Global Plague

Tournament of Roses chariot races, 1915

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:42:00 -0400

Tournament of Roses chariot races, 1915:

In lieu of football, the 1915 Tournament of Roses included chariot races. As in antiquity, chariot races were expensive, though more than 20,000 were in attendance. Football resumed the next year.

chicagohistorymuseum: Metzner, a runner, on a street in Chicago...

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:37:57 -0400

chicagohistorymuseum:

Metzner, a runner, on a street in Chicago surrounded by bicycles, cars, and a horse-drawn wagon, c. 1905. Photograph from the Chicago Daily News.

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uchicagomag: As American as baseball and apple pie… and Carl...

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:36:02 -0400

uchicagomag:

As American as baseball and apple pie… and Carl Sagan

Do you have Sagan’s (AB’54, SB’55, SM’56, PhD’60) Topps trading card?

Scroll through the Dead Sea Scrolls

Thu, 31 May 2012 15:11:08 -0400

Scroll through the Dead Sea Scrolls:

uscatholic:

This is the kind of stuff that makes us love the Internet. And you thought you needed a university library card for this kind of access.

sfmoma: Anselm Kiefer, Osiris und Isis (Osiris and Isis),...

Thu, 31 May 2012 12:19:29 -0400

sfmoma:

Anselm Kiefer, Osiris und Isis (Osiris and Isis), 1985-1987; oil and acrylic emulsion with additional three-dimensional media

via ArtDaily.org

This painting is now on view as part of Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present.

On Being Blog: Muslim Sportswomen on the Rise

Thu, 31 May 2012 12:18:15 -0400

On Being Blog: Muslim Sportswomen on the Rise:

beingblog:

by Marium Sattar, guest conributor

At the first ceremony of its kind, fencer and Olympic hopeful Ibtihaj Muhammad was recognized for her achievements as a Muslim sportswoman at the Ambassador Awards. The awards were hosted by the Muslim Women’s Sport Foundation the first week of May to…