<h4>S. Brent Plate is visiting associate professor of religious studies at Hamilton College and co-founder and managing editor of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief. His writings have been published in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Religion Dispatches. His books include Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World and Blasphemy: Art that Offends.</h4>

S. Brent Plate

Reports of the Death of Religious Art Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

"You always admire what you really don't understand."
— Blaise Pascal

Religion

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Art &amp; Architecture

Marginalia and Its Disruptions

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

Religion in Contemporary European Cinema

The Resurrection of God in Cinema

S. Brent Plate is visiting associate professor of religious studies at Hamilton College and co-founder and managing editor of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief. His writings have been published in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Religion Dispatches. His books include Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World and Blasphemy: Art that Offends.