Join a tour of the university district and discover how people in need were supported in education and care in the past, and which works of solidarity are still active there today. With this city walk, De Loodsen vzw takes you on a quest for the social influencers throughout 500 years of Antwerp's urban history.
'Baroque Influencers' shows how the leading figures in Antwerp in the long seventeenth-century thought, dreamed, worked and prayed. The exhibition gathers devotional prints, etchings and books from the collections of several heritage institutions,
Stroll through 17th century Antwerp with Jesuit and city guide Rudi Mannaerts and discover the baroque landmarks in the city.
In this talk religious ethicist Liz Bucar uses the framework of appropriation to unpack the ethics of yoga. What does it mean to insist yoga is a spiritual but not religious practice? Are we entitled to borrow any practice in the pursuit of our personal health?
Historian Judith Pollmann (Leiden University) will talk about faith persecution, polarization and tolerance in Antwerp between 1500 and 1700. (in Dutch)
Walk through the exhibition in the Nottebohm Hall with religious art expert Sarah Joan Moran. The tour will be in English.
Western Europe of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was deeply religious and characterized by a lively culture of humour. How did these two characteristics go together? In this talk (in Dutch) prof. Lieke Stelling (University Utrecht) examines the ways in which humour is, in fact, an indispensable part of religion.
This exhibition rediscovers the (international) network of De Pelgrim and the religious community art of the interwar period.
