Panel Talk: This roundtable discussion explores Indigenous and earth-centered understandings of creative expression as a spiritual and healing practice. Moving beyond modern notions of art as objects for appreciation, participants will share practices...
Performance: Resonance of Grace is a performance exploring Sufi music as a sacred and transformative art form. The performance illuminates how Sufi traditions dissolve boundaries between art and spirituality, using sound as a medium for transcendence and...
Performance: In Sanatana Dharma, Om is the seed vibration (nāda) of cosmic creation. Nāda Yoga, the Yoga of Sound, teaches that individual suffering is transcended by harmonizing the inner nāda with Om, integrating mind, body, and spirit. Sound is...
Workshop: We see the role of the artist in society as shaman, priest and ritualist. This workshop draws on the spiritual wisdom that was seeded by the response of two women (Anne Herbert and M. Paloma Pavel) who drafted a phrase on a napkin which led to a...
Workshop: This interactive workshop will introduce psychodrama as a means of fostering creativity through dialogue with the participant’s Muse. Participants will be introduced to the work of J. L. Moreno (1889-1974), a luminary with a spiritual calling to...
Workshop: This workshop will (i) illustrate the foundational use of spiritual art for knowledge dissemination of the Brahma Kumaris (BK), a women-led spiritual movement which has now spread to over 110 countries in the world, (ii) deep-dive on the BK’s...
Performance: This session explores music, narrative, and spirituality in Central and Inner Asia. After an introduction by Buryat-Mongol elder Erjen Khamagаnоva, the session will open with a performance and interpretation of portions of the Kyrgyz Manas...
As an African and Euro-American intercultural collaboration, this paper advances a decolonial hermeneutics of sacred dance by exploring the intersection of dance, music, and spirituality in African contexts. African musical arts are dynamic cultural...
This proposal explores the art of rote learning as a foundational spiritual tool for young children, drawing inspiration from the contributions of Ayo Samuel and Dapo Taiwo to Yoruba hymnody. Both hymnodists, of Baptist extraction, played pivotal roles in...
This presentation explores the nexus between arts and spirituality by discussing innovative sonic and artistic paradigms in Pentecostal spirituality. By focusing on the growing practice of prayer chants in Nigeria, I examine how prayer chants interact...
According to artist Lupe Fiasco, "rap teaches." It teaches how to dance, how to talk…and it stands to reason that rap also teaches spirituality. Kendrick Lamar’s chart-topping rap album GNX (2024) describes a "past life regression," where he experienced...
Black contemporary gospel music provides a womanist method for spiritual care and physical healing (Kernodle, 2006 and Fulton Minor, 2011). However, little scholarship has examined the capacity for gospel music to heal Black populations against health...
