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Oludamini Ogunnaike – The Role of Art in Diverse Religions?



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Almost all religions use art in their sacred spaces and many use art forms in their worship rituals. Certainly, there is powerful social cohesion at work. Can cross-religion communications in art, largely nonverbal, work to enhance similarities and mitigate differences among religions that, at least
superficially, have significant differences? Can art be a much-needed unifier?

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Oludamini Ogunnaike is Associate Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy at the University of Virginia (UVA).

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