Sacred Objects in Secular Spaces

Bruce M. Sullivan is Professor of Comparative Study of Religions and Asian Studies at Northern Arizona University, USA.

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Introduction to Sacred Objects in Secular Spaces: Exhibiting Asian Religions in Museums
Bruce M. Sullivan

Part 1: Exhibiting Hindu and Sikh Religious Objects in Museums

1. What Do Indian Images Really Want? A Biographical Approach
Richard H. Davis (Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, Bard College, USA)

2. Under the Gaze of Kali: Exhibitionism in the Kalighat Painting Exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art
Deepak Sarma (Professor of Religious Studies, Case Western Reserve University, USA)

3. Reconsecrating the Icons: The New Phenomenon of Yoga in Museums
Bruce M. Sullivan (Professor, Comparative Study of Religions & Asian Studies, Northern Arizona University, USA)

4. Sikh Museuming
Anne Murphy (Associate Professor in Punjabi Language, Literature and Sikh Studies, Dept. of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada)

Part 2: Exhibiting Buddhist Religious Objects in Museums

5. Planning the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Gallery of Buddhist Sculpture 2009-2014
John Clarke (Curator of South and South East Asian Art at the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK)

6. Entering the Virtual Mandala: Transformative Environments in Hybrid Spaces
Jeff Durham (Assistant Curator of Himalayan Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, USA)

7. Discovery and Display: Case Studies from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Denise Patry Leidy (Curator of Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA)

8. Mapping Cultures, Digital Exhibitions, Learning Networks: The Creative Collaborations at Austin College and the Crow Collection of Asian Art
Ivette Vargas-O’Bryan (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Austin College, USA)

Part 3: Religions, Museums, Memory

9. Curating Asian Religious Objects in the Exhibition Sacred Word and Image: Five World Religions
Janet Baker (Curator of Asian Art, Phoenix Art Museum, USA)

10. World Religions Museums: Dialogue, Domestication, and the Sacred Gaze
Charles D. Orzech (Reader in Religion, Conflict & Transition, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, UK)

11. Detritus to Treasure: Memory, Metonymy, and the Museum
Michael Willis (Curator of the Early South Asian and Himalayan Collections, The British Museum, UK)

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