Speaking of Interfaith

ALA 270

Faculty Curator: Christine Modey (Michigan Community Scholars Program)

On view: Winter 2024

While ancient religious traditions seem to offer a set of clear historic beliefs and practices, religion in the modern world varies widely within cultures and even among individual adherents

In the United States, high variation within religious traditions is coupled with American individualism, resulting in innovative “remixing” of elements from various traditions into people’s own beliefs and practices. Religion is rarely “pure” or “authentic.” It always mingles with elements of culture and identity to become something unique in the lived experience of the believer.

The artworks on display here invite visitors to acknowledge the complexity of our own spiritual, cultural, and religious backgrounds and to recognize others’ identities as equally complicated and intersectional.