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Show us your sacred! Send images of what is sacred to you to sacredmatters@emory.edu or tag your photos with #sacredmatters ! We'll publish them on our online magazine-sacredmattersmagazine.com #sacred #religion #spiritual

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Show us your sacred! Sacred Matters, an online magazine at the boundaries of religion and culture, is calling for images of the everyday sacred. Share your images with us by tagging your photos with #sacredmatters on Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, Tumblr or email us​ at sacredmatters@emory.edu. Please include where and when your photo was taken. We will publish your images here onsacredmattersmagazine.com and through our social media outlets.

We want to know where you see the sacred, how you capture it visually, and what you’re willing to share with us and the world about it. We all know that much of the sacred is bound up with specific so called religions, like Judaism and Christianity, Buddhism and Islam, Hinduism and Mormonism, each with its own panoply of symbols and material expressions (sometimes even sharing these elements). But these surely do not exhaust the range of possible sacred objects that give religious meanings to Americans in the twenty-first century.

Here at Sacred Matters one of our goals is to disrupt the lines between religion and culture, to see what’s sacred about culture, and identify how religion draws inspiration from culture. Our plan is to democratize the sacred, to display its varieties and popular elements, rather than reinforce the same old boring and dying forms of religion that continue to draw so much attention in the media today. If you pay attention to the sacred from the bottom up, rather than the top down, things get much more interesting, and dangerous, and contested, and creative.

What better way to help this process along than to make this call for images. We want to see what is sacred in your everyday lives - maybe a graveyard, or a bookshelf, or a musical instrument, or your favorite Justin Beiber poster, or a moment in time - and put them in rotating galleries on our website and in our social media networks. Maybe if we could be more honest about what is sacred, we’d see how utterly hopeless it is to define it.

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Taiwanese Student Plays Her Adorable Schnauzer Like A Stringed Instrument

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Are you kidding me AP?

Look at the difference in headlines. And then look at the way in which the AP depicted Renisha McBride.

Even in death, we lose all humanity. Victim shaming knows no bounds.

She is a black woman, she has a name. Don’t ever forget it!

#RenishaMcBride

*thanks to @goldietaylor for the pic*

[leela]

Here’s to a week for the unconventional before and after photos, National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. For most of my life, I’ve been heavier, and consequently shamed and belittled for my weight.  When I started college, however, I weighed 103 pounds, was eating 400-600 calories a day, doing about 90 minutes of cardio daily, and most importantly, I was anorexic. I was 15 pounds underweight, but no one thought to say anything because they were too busy applauding me for my unnatural weight loss. This is me calling them out. This is my telling them they were wrong. This is me thanking my real life and tumblr friends for everything they have done to get me to the wonderful place I am today. So fuck you traditional pictures of “healthy”, I may be fat, but I beat my eating disorder. 

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A Series of Sculptures That Cast Shadow Art When Lit From a Specific Angle

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Here it is #yourmomentofcake #pancakethedog ☀️🐶☀️#dachshund #doxie

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Beautiful sushi - and gawd-I love pickled ginger #vscocam #shoyaizakaya

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@knppl swears he didn't think it'd be this big #shoyaizakaya #bigbeer

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Super chill. The summer is awesome.

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Don and @knppl present the star of the final dish. What little angels they are. #choppedathome

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Potato & turnip latke with fig, maple syrup and tempeh compote oh my god via Don and @knppl #choppedathome

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Dish #1- mango salsa cups via Don. Tomatillo, mango, cilantro, red onions, avacado! #vscocam #choppedathome

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Je l'aime beaucoup <3 @knppl with his espresso @cafealsace

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Winston Churchill coffee this Friday morning. Ready to go to work :) #vscocam

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Here it is, your moment of cake. Today, cake eats an apple. 🍎🐶🍎 #yourmomentofcake #pancake #dachshund #doxie