Item Detail
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English
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Communicating Jesus : The Encoding and Decoding Practices of Re-Presenting Jesus for LDS (Mormon) Audiences at a BYU Art Museum
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Summer 2013
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46
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2
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Cambridge, MA
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Dialogue Foundation
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55-82
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There is a growing recognition among scholars that museums are discursively constructed sites. One scholar noted that museums often are merely a "structured sample of reality" where science empowers their message. Alternatively, museums might encourage a pseudo-religious experience of ritually "attending" them--factors, some critics observe, that reduce the probability of resistant readings by patrons. Either view suggests a potential for tension between the secular and the religious, or perhaps the discourse of the museum versus the worldviews of patrons. Scott and Stout address this tension by examining the meaning-making practices of a museum and patrons at an art exhibit featuring both original religious paintings and digital media at a Carl Bloch exhibit at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art.