{"id":84,"date":"2017-10-15T14:30:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T18:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-spiritedthings\/?p=84"},"modified":"2017-10-15T14:30:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T18:30:24","slug":"this-week-dr-elizabeth-mcalister-speaks-on-power-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-spiritedthings\/2017\/10\/15\/this-week-dr-elizabeth-mcalister-speaks-on-power-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"This week: Dr. Elizabeth McAlister speaks on &#8220;Power Objects&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next &#8220;Spirited Things&#8221; event will take place this Thursday, October 19 at 5:00PM<\/p>\n<h3>Featuring Dr. Elizabeth McAlister, Chair of African American Studies and Professor of Religion, Wesleyan University, speaking on:<\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;Power Objects: Charging and Discharging in Afro-Caribbean Religion&#8221;<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>How do material objects work as powerful catalysts for transformation, healing, or defense in the Afro-Atlantic religious world? This talk examines decorated bottles from Haiti as containers for spiritual energy, and unpacks the logics by which a\u00a0seemingly inanimate object can be charged with powerful energy, and de-charged when its work is complete.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-spiritedthings\/2017\/10\/15\/this-week-dr-elizabeth-mcalister-speaks-on-power-objects\/power-objects\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-88\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-spiritedthings\/files\/2017\/10\/power-objects-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-spiritedthings\/files\/2017\/10\/power-objects-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-spiritedthings\/files\/2017\/10\/power-objects-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-spiritedthings\/files\/2017\/10\/power-objects-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-spiritedthings\/files\/2017\/10\/power-objects.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next &#8220;Spirited Things&#8221; event will take place this Thursday, October 19 at 5:00PM Featuring Dr. Elizabeth McAlister, Chair of African American Studies and Professor of Religion, Wesleyan University, speaking on: &#8220;Power Objects: Charging and Discharging in Afro-Caribbean Religion&#8221; How &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-spiritedthings\/2017\/10\/15\/this-week-dr-elizabeth-mcalister-speaks-on-power-objects\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[542],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-spiritedthings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-spiritedthings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-spiritedthings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-spiritedthings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-spiritedthings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-spiritedthings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-spiritedthings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-spiritedthings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-spiritedthings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-spiritedthings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}