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VCU’s Library Exhibit: Comics & “Religious Imagination in Popular Culture”

Virginia Commonwealth University is featuring a new gallery exhibition entitled, “Gods and Prophets, Sages and Saints: Religious Imagination in Popular Culture.” Their James Branch Cabell Library Special Collections feature a variety of comics works that,

while the temptation is to assume that religious expression in popular media must be kitsch–or at least bad art–and probably bad theology, a closer look reveals a more complex reality. While many examples of those stereotypes exist, there are also examples of deep spirituality and fine storytelling resulting in works of great power and beauty.

No reviews of the exhibit have been made known yet to Sacred and Sequential, however: