Posted on 02/26/2012 7:34:23 AM PST by greyfoxx39
Why would Brigham Young University a Church-owned institution found in the heart of Mormon culture and heritage play host to a massive exhibit of Islamic art grounded in the day-to-day culture of the Muslim world?
It's a fair question. One that exhibit and museum directors are eager to answer and engage. Dr. Sabiha Al Khemir, project director of the new Islamic-themed "Beauty and Belief," said she is often asked by associates from far outside Utah just why such an exhibit would open at BYU.
"Why BYU? Because here is a religious community who actually sincerely embraced the project, who is willing to cross bridges and in the making itself of this exhibition many bridges have been crossed," she said in a museum release. "That in itself is reinforcing to the message of this exhibition."
"Beauty and Belief" opens Feb. 24 at the BYU Museum of Art. Visitors will be introduced to a broad collection of objects that define the exhibit the largest ever hosted by the museum. More than 250 objects were collected from 10 countries, 40 lending institutions and 10 private collections. Counted among the contributors are several international museums stretching from Great Britain to Morocco. The exhibit will be on display at the museum until Sept. 29. It will then be housed for short stints at museums in Indiana, New Jersey and Oregon.
The exhibit is not political but it obviously arrives at BYU during a politically charged time in the world. Dr. Al Khemir and her associates hope that visitors will discover differing ways of seeing the Islamic world and then leave with new understandings and insight about Islamic culture.
"Beauty and Belief" is, at once, a challenging and an accessible exhibit. On one hand, the collection of "art" is obviously different than many objects found in a traditional art exhibit. Instead of paintings or sculptures that share an easily recognizable narrative, most of the objects found here are household items such as bowls, dishes, textiles and decanters.
Plenty of educational materials are found in the exhibit to help folks understand the history, purpose and nuances of each object.
It's hoped that a wide variety of visitors experience "Beauty and Belief," including school groups, Primary classes, Church youth groups and, of course, families and individuals.
Admission to the exhibit is free. Visit the exhibit's web site, www.beauty-and-belief.com or call (801) 422-8287 for more information.
Islamic Art = Squiggley lines
Welcome to MORMONism 101
While we are waiting to start; enjoy the artwork on our walls.
If some of it seems shifty to you, just look at it real closely
and it will stop moving, but another location will then start to crawl on you.
Do NOT think our DOCTRINE is this way!
Thanks for the “heads up” about circumcising a dead mormon.
I personally chose to perform a Dead Circumcision on Joseph Smith, the founding horndog prophet/treasure digger/criminal/con man of mormonism.
He is now Jewish!!!
A real religion with ONE GOD.
I thought this said Beauty and the Beast this morning when I first saw it. LOL!
http://www.i4m.com/think/history/holy-ghost.htm
I don’t know why the Jews would welcome a drug addled con man other than the fact that he was a child made in the image of God. What he did with that image, though, is rather interesting.
MB, hey FRiend!
You are probably right... But at least he’s no longer a mormon!
Ampu
And you have shown up.
Persisting in making it about the PEOPLE and NOT the theology?
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Christians ATTACKED???
Whoda thunk!!
I’m really snowed under at work (and coincident with Lent) am more or less retreating from FR for some time. I cannot devote the time required to reasonably debate.
I did however see your post and this website offers up a lot of information and collection of evidence that JS was a forerunner of Timothy Leary, only more successful.
Hey, I get a piece of the tinfoil hat concession so I’m mopping up ‘
White Horse!
You are right: Catholics, and evangelicals.
"Evangleicals" is a general term that doesn't hit at a particular faith...just those of whichever Christian denomination who spread the word, as Jesus told us to do.
"Catholics" is a VERY specific term that aims RIGHT aa the oldest and first Christian denomination. Perhaps it's because it IS so old and because there are 2 billion Catholics as opposed to 1 billion Christians...all non-Catholics lumped together. Perhaps there are those who don't like to be lumped. I dunno. I never could figure out the beef against Catholics. We don't really evangelize much...not like Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses. Those two aren't even considered Christians by us Catholics.
The Catholic church is frequently attacked, but it is also frequently glorified in Hollywood and on TV, the media also frequently treats it with great respect and as an authority.
Evangelical Christians are almost always treated as sub human, backwards, primitive, and you won’t see the troubled movie hero going to his Southern Baptist minister for advice, because he is always Catholic. The left know how Evangelicals vote, and how steadfastly conservative they are, that is why even in horror flicks the bible quoting Protestants are likely to be the slope headed, inbred, cannibals, never the good people, or the religious counter to evil or the powers of Satan.
I’m sure donations from illustrious, deep-pocketed ALUMNI helped fund this barf-fest.
Muslim art and architecture is usually produced by slaves or folks who converted to Islam to avoid torture and death.
Why would anyone show this?
No need for us knowledgable Christians to do ALL the hard work; is there?
AMEN!
"Go ye into ALL the world..."
Fifty years ago maybe!
I've seen very little of it in the last decades of my life.
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