The objects in this collection have been sorted by their associated Religion. Browse the artifacts, videos, and tours for each religion below
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The exquisite bronze and terra cotta portraiture of Ifę precedes by eight centuries the earliest written explanation we have
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West-Central Africa is populated largely by speakers of the Bantu languages. These languages originated in a small population of
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“Winti” is the name for both a religion and some of the spiritual entities worshipped in that religion. Winti
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The conventional dichotomy between the “religious” and the “secular” is not a cross-cultural universal. Rather, as Talal Asad points
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This exhibition focuses on the differences, the similarities, and the historical communication among West African Yoruba religion and its
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Muslims, or practitioners of Islam, believe that a man from the Arabian Peninsula named Muhammed (570 CE-632 CE) was
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Vodou is a religion of song, dance, prayer, spirit possession, animal sacrifice and healing practiced by the majority of
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Ethiopia is one of Africa’s oldest capitals of Christianity, its emperor having converted to that religion in the 4th
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Compared to West Africa, whose history is far more and far longer integrated into the Atlantic political and cultural
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Cubans practice a diverse array of related religions, such as Santeria, Ifá, Palo Mayombe, Abakwa, Spiritism and Roman Catholicism.
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Brazil’s Atlantic coast from Belém do Pará in the north to Rio de Janeiro in the south is an
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The most Westernized of African-diaspora peoples, African Americans nurse an old love-hate relationship with Africa. During much of the
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Christianity is a range of beliefs and practices devoted to the commemoration and invocation of Jesus of Nazareth, who
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In the Caribbean nations of Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, Spiritism, or Espiritismo, encompasses a range of
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Although the region is also home to many Muslims, Hinduism is the dominant religion of South Asia, and Buddhism
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