{"id":9914,"date":"2020-07-02T12:31:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T16:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/?p=9914"},"modified":"2020-07-02T12:32:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T16:32:34","slug":"new-book-showcasing-zimbabwean-religious-life-and-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/2020\/07\/02\/new-book-showcasing-zimbabwean-religious-life-and-art\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book Showcasing Zimbabwean Religious Life and Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9915\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9915\" style=\"width: 511px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cgcm\/files\/2020\/07\/static1.squarespace-501x300.png\" alt=\"Zimbabwe: Art, Symbol and Meaning (book cover)\" width=\"501\" height=\"300\" class=\"wp-image-9915 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2020\/07\/static1.squarespace-501x300.png 501w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2020\/07\/static1.squarespace-768x460.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2020\/07\/static1.squarespace-1024x613.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zimbabwe: Art, Symbol and Meaning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gillian Atherstone and Duncan Wylie have compiled many striking photos of Zimbabwean religious life in a new book entitled <em>Zimbabwe: Art, Symbol and Meaning<\/em>. The book seeks to preserve religious practices, philosophy, and a way of living which is rapidly passing away. The photography work of CGCM co-founder Dr. Inus Daneel, showcased in one of the CGCM digital projects entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shonareligion\/\">Old and New in Shona Religion<\/a>, is an important component of Atherstone&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>Support Atherstone&#8217;s project by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zimbabwe-art.com\/introduction\">pre-ordering<\/a> a copy of the book, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/Powerful-story-of-art-from-an-African-worldview\">contributing<\/a> to the project&#8217;s crowdfunding page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zimbabwe-art.com\/chapters\">Learn more<\/a> about the images curated in this new publication, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zimbabwe-art.com\/makingof\">watch this video<\/a> in which Atherstone describes her work with the <em>N&#8217;angas<\/em>, or spirit mediums, in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Gillian Atherstone and Duncan Wylie have compiled many striking photos of Zimbabwean religious life in a new book entitled Zimbabwe: Art, Symbol and Meaning. The book seeks to preserve religious practices, philosophy, and a way of living which is rapidly passing away. The photography work of CGCM co-founder Dr. Inus Daneel, showcased in one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17845,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1994,1992,2015],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9917,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914\/revisions\/9917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}