Links and Resources: Art, Religion and Spirituality

We are always on the lookout for resources related to art and religion.

By presenting the following links, the Saint Louis University Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) intends no commentary on or endorsement of, the associated websites or organizations. To report broken links, or to suggest additional ones, please contact MOCRA.

Museums, Galleries and Presenting Organizations

• Bridge Projects (Los Angeles)
• Church History Museum (Salt Lake City)
• CARAVAN (Winfield, Illinois)
• Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco)
• Doug Adams Gallery/The Center for the Arts & Religion (CARe) (Berkeley)
• Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art (Honolulu and New York)
• Faith Museum (County Durham, England)
• Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley)
• Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts (New York)
• Glencairn Museum (Philadelphia)
• The Jewish Museum (New York)
• Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) (Chicago)
• Luce Center for the Arts and Religion (Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C.)
• Manresa Gallery (St. Ignatius Parish, San Francisco)
• Museum Catharijne Convent (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
• Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) (New York, closed in June 2015)
• Museum of Islamic Art (Doha, Qatar)
• Museum of Russian Icons (Clinton, Massachusetts)
• Museum of World Religions (Taipei)
• Museum on the Seam (Jerusalem)
• Rubin Museum of Art (New York)
• St. Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art (Glasgow)

Exhibition Websites

• Five Faiths Project (Ackland Art Museum, UNC-Chapel Hill)
• God(s): A User’s Guide (Canadian Museum of Civilization)
• The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama (multiple venues)

Art, Religion and Spirituality - Intersections and Conversation

• Alpha Omega Arts blog (interfaith religious art and events)
• ARC (a 2017 merger of The Society for Arts, Religion, and Contemporary Culture (SARCC) and the Association for Theopoetics Research and Exploration (ATRE))
• Art and Christianity (formerly Art and Christianity Enquiry (ACE))
• Art and Theology blog (posts about Christianity and the arts)
• Arts and Faith St. Louis (community organization working toward interfaith understanding through the arts)
• ArtWay (website with resources about Christianity and the arts)
• Catholic Artist Connection (artists organization)
• Centre for Arts and the Sacred at King’s (ASK) (King’s College, London)
• Centre for Religion and Heritage (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
• Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA) (artists organization)
• Image (a journal of art and faith)
• Jewish Art Now (contemporary Jewish art blog and advocates)
• Jewish Art Salon (artists organization)
• Lived Religion in the Digital Age project (St. Louis)
• The Museum of ImaJewnation (St. Louis-based exploration of Jewish spirituality, culture and art)
• Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies (SARTS)
• The Visual Commentary on Scripture (VCS)

Art Reference and Conversation

• Art21 (PBS series on contemporary visual artists)
• ArtsJournal (art and culture blog)
• The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art (maintained by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Islamic Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Religion and Spirituality Reference and Conversation

• BBC Religions Reference Page (brief introductions to faith traditions of the world)
• Beliefnet (compiles resources for many faith traditions)
• ColumbiaFAVS (Columbia Faith and Values - providing in-depth, non-sectarian coverage of religion, spirituality and ideas in Columbia, MO, and beyond)
• Interfaith America (building up interfaith leaders)
• Interfaith Religious Holiday Calendar (compiled by Huffington Post Religion)
• Interfaith Voices (public radio’s religion news magazine)
• Judaism 101
• The Material History of American Religion Project
• On Being (public radio program hosted by Krista Tippett)
• Pluralism Project (Harvard University)
• Religion and Politics Journal (a project of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics, Washington University in St. Louis)
• Spirituality & Practice (resources from a wide range of traditions)

Other Items of Interest

• Sistine Chapel Virtual Tour (Vatican City)