Faith and the Visual Arts

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Glen Hansard - Love Don't Leave Me Waiting.

UN International Day of Peace

The UN International Day of Peace, which falls next weekend is an excellent opportunity to celebrate positive relationships between different religious communities in London. Local Islamic centres, synagogues and churches are inviting visitors in to exchange messages of peace on (respectively) Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

 

Flyers - one for Islamic centres, one for synagogues and one for churches - can be downloaded at http://londonpeacenetwork.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/download-your-flyer-for-peace-day/

 

The idea is very simple – just invite neighbours or visitors in and exchange messages of peace (messages from nine religious traditions are on the back of the flyer). These can be people from different traditions whom are already known, or new contacts. 

 

This initiative coincides with the local Art Trail, of which St John's Seven Kings, is part, so we will have copies of these messages available to exchange with any visitors from other faith communities who visit on 21st or 22nd September.     

 

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World Wide Message Tribe - Peace.

Our Holy Scriptures

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Mark Heard - Well Worn Pages.

Modest Fashion (2)

The project summary for the Modest Dressing research project is now available to download. This project researched the growing internet retail market for modest clothing among women of the three Abrahamic faiths: Islam, Christianity and Judaism. The summary can be downloaded from the bottom of Modest Dressing project home page here: http://www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/research/projects-collaborations/modest-dressing/.

A project symposium was held at the London College of Fashion in June 2011, and you can read more about it and listen to podcasts of the papers and discussion by clicking here.

Reina Lewis will also be bringing out an edited book of papers based on the project research and the project symposium later next year. She writes that, "Researching modest fashion has been absolutely fascinating, and I hope you enjoy the results as much as we enjoyed producing them."

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Duke Special: Slip Of A Girl.