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How Art Can Save Us from Ourselves
Philip Salim Francis on the importance of art for those in the post-evangelical community....
Philip Salim Francis’s new book with Oxford University Press is entitled When Art Disrupts Religion: Aesthetic Experience and the Evangelical Mind. He is a professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Maine in Farmington, and was recently a fellow in the humanities at the University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum. Francis’s research explores the shifting interrelationship of religion, art, and sexuality in the modern West.