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<em>Painting Religion in Public</em> by Sally Promey.
Painting Religion in Public by Sally Promey.
Sally Promey, professor of American studies, religion and visual culture at Yale University, will deliver a lecture titled “Always a Golden Calf: Materialities and Sensational Religions in ‘Secular’ Modernity” on Thursday, Oct. 7, at 4:10 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium in the Hamilton College Science Center. This event is free and open to the public.

Promey specializes in American religious art and history. Her books include Painting Religion in Public: John Singer Sargent’s “Triumph of Religion” at the Boston Public Library, for which she received the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Historical Study of Religion, and Spiritual Spectacles: Vision and Image in Mid-Nineteenth-Century, which won the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art. She is currently working on book volumes titled Religion in Plain View: The Public Aesthetics of American Belief and Written on the Heart: Sensory Cultures, Material Practices, and American Christianities.

Promey received her bachelor’s degree from Hiram College and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Prior to her teaching post at Yale, Promey served as chair and professor of art history and archeology at the University of Maryland.

Her lecture is part of the Hamilton College Humanities forum, designed to explore the problem of secular humanism in the modern academy. The theme for 2009-11 is “The Secular Gaze: Humanistic Representations of the World.”

The lecture is sponsored by the Dean of Faculty, the Yordan Lecture Fund, Emerson Gallery, the Chaplaincy, and the religious studies and art history departments.

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