ArchCityReligion
Local Religion and Digital Humanities in the Classrooms and Beyond
Rachel McBride Lindsey is assistant professor of American Religion at Saint Louis University and co-director of Lived Religion in the Digital Age, a Public Understanding of Religion project supported by the Henry Luce Foundation. Her book, A Communion of Shadows: Religion and Photography in Nineteenth Century America (2017), is published by the University of North Carolina Press.
What does the study of religion look like, sound like, feel like, even smell, and taste like when we shift public attention from shared beliefs (be they theological, moral, or civic) to shared spaces? How do the tools and insights of digital humanities inform the ways we encounter, study, and analyze local religion? What are the points of intersection between "digital religion" and social justice?
ArchCityReligion and Live Religion in the Digital Age are two projects, one teaching centered and the other research focused, that anchor these questions and begin to offer responses in the local contexts of St. Louis.