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S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate

Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Cinema and Media Studies, by special appointment, Hamilton College

Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Cinema and Media Studies, by special appointment, Hamilton College S. Brent Rodriguez Plate’s teaching and research explore how human sense perceptions affect ways of being religious, and how the operations of religious traditions impact our sensual encounters. Investigating the material cultures of religious traditions, Plate's work is interdisciplinary, moving between developments in cultural anthropology, art history, film studies, and cognitive science, along with religious studies. Among his 14 books are "Blasphemy: Art that Offends" (2006), "A History of Religion in 5½ Objects" (2014), and "Religion and Film" (2nd ed, 2017). He is co-founder and managing editor of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief, and serves on several editorial boards for journals and book series. Rodriguez-Plate's essays have been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Religion Dispatches, The Christian Century, Huffington Post, Killing the Buddha, America, and elsewhere. For more information, please visit: www.sbrentplate.net