Killing the Buddha

Photographing spaces of enforced meditation at Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary.

Ogle each other’s objects of devotion.

Donald Rumsfeld took the LORD’s name in vain.

In the forests of Rajasthan resides the god of invisible things.

A friendly reminder to keep the count running.

What can a Cambodian monk offer three kids from Liberia?

And other factors involved in the transformation of cartoons into riots.

Private Lynndie England pictures fashion and fascism in Abu Ghraib.

In the woods behind a West Virginia monastery, a writer and a photographer ask an age-old question: Is bad art good religion?

James Martin’s strange paintings make him the Martin Luther of the art world.

God is my cruise director. Orientalist travel posters sell art deco Islam to the Western world.

The mayor, the artist, and the sacred faith of the elite.

Michael Lesy’s Long Time Coming is a coffee table book that ticks.