Religious Beliefs and Devotional Practices
Religious belief and devotional practice take many forms across cultures and histories. This theme highlights how individuals and communities express spiritual commitment: through ritual, prayer, pilgrimage, sacred objects, and shared acts of care. Different perspectives address the relationship between the material and the metaphysical, as well as the role of faith in shaping identity and daily life.
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PERSPECTIVES
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ARTWORKS
Restaurant doors depicting Sheikh Amadou Bamba and Ibra Fall
Unidentified artist(s)
Rice granary guardian male and female figures (bululs)
Attributed to the carver Taguiling
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PEOPLE
Helen
Burgos-Ellis
Art Historian and Lecturer
César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Youssef
Carter
Assistant Professor and Kenan Rifai Fellow in Islamic Studies
Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Paulette
Crespillo-Cuison
President of the Kiyyangan Weavers Association
Member of the Save the lfugao Terraces Movement (SITMo))
Kyrah Malika
Daniels
Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Emory University
Faculty Co-Coordinator, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program
Mamyrah
Dougé-Prosper
Assistant Professor of Global and International Studies
University of California, Irvine
Eulalie
Dulnuan
Tourism and Cultural Officer
President of the Ifugao Intangible Heritage and Performing Arts Society
Jahsun
Edmonds
Adjunct Professor of Africana Studies at California State University Dominguez Hills
Ifa Priest (Babalawo)
Xóchitl M.
Flores-Marcial
Associate Professor
Department of Chicana/o Studies, California State University, Northridge
Erica
Jones
Senior Curator of African Arts and Manager of Curatorial Affairs at the Fowler Museum at UCLA
Marlon
Martin
Executive Director of Save the Ifugao Terraces Movement
Co-director of Ifugao Archaeological Project
Mario
Muñoz Cayetano
President Emeritus
Wixárika Union of Ceremonial Centers of Jalisco, Durango, and Nayarit A.C.
Diana
Negrín da Silva
Associate Director, Wixárika Research Center
Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley
Syona
Puliady
Curator of Textiles of the Eastern Hemisphere
Fowler Museum at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles
Allen F.
Roberts
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
World Arts and Cultures/Dance, University of California, Los Angeles
Steven
Vose
Assistant Professor of Jain Studies, Religious Studies, and History
University of Colorado, Denver
