Art & culture around the world
Through my amazing summer program, I got to go on a few great site visits to experience different houses of worship and participate in some beautiful events. The sites may fluctuate a bit year to year (if you are planning on attending in the future) but this is the general idea: Bronx Lourdes Grotto The [...]
Women all over the world have been insulted, humiliated, and degraded all throughout history. We have overcome countless amounts of hardships over time. Women from all different religions, cultures, and continents have fought and earned their place in the world today. Still, gender inequality still survives within many communities around the world. And gender inequalities [...]
As part of my summer Religious Worlds of New York we visited the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Although not as famous as its Roman Catholic counterpart, St. Patrick's Cathedral, St. John's still provides the serene quiet in an elaborate Neo-Gothic style that is quiet rare in the hustle and bustle of the [...]
Matisyahu has been on repeat this weekend at our house 🙂 and I finally got to visit Crown Heights, the Hasidic community he is from, a few weeks ago while in NYC. Also, he is one of the FEW musicians I've seen live. This past year he played at the House of Blues, Orlando! JMF Introduction [...]
As a practicing Catholic, I am familiar with the miracle at Lourdes, but I had no idea of this little American-version! Luckily one of our program readings, "Everyday Miracles: The Study of Lived Religion" by Robert Orsi, prepared us for the visit. The garden around the church of St. Lucy is a replica of the countryside [...]
We explored Brooklyn this past weekend and interestingly enough one of my Humanities students did a blog post on the Jewish Hasidic community in Brooklyn. Perfect, huh!? JMF Introduction to Hasidism Hasidism, which is translates to “pious ones,” was a movement that came from Orthodox Judaism and was founded by Rabbi Israel Ben Eliezer. After [...]
I am back in New York City for three whole weeks this summer! I am incredibly privileged to participate in The Interfaith Center of New York's Religious Worlds of New York summer program, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. It's a busy schedule full of visits to sacred sites and ceremonies, lots of [...]
