The three of the most popular religions practiced today is Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. New York Public Library has an exhibition open now called “Three Faiths” that illustrates all three of them. This exhibition include over two hundred works created over the past 1500 years of writing and art, showing the coming about of each of the religion.
It teaches viewers also that these religions share the common feature of monotheism and that religion revolves around only two factors: humans and the divine. The focus on similarities among the three religions is partly meant to disconnect terrorism from the mainstream Islamic tradition, which I find to be very interesting especially after the 9/11 incident. It is also critical that such an exhibition in placed in New York City, one of the most diverse cities in the world, to get across such an important message.
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This project sounds like a wonderful thing. There is so much conflict in our world as result of religious extremism, and because of this, we often forget to separate extremism from religion itself. I hope this exhibit is one of the first of many and that it helps our world focus on the ability faith has to connect individuals, rather than diversify.
Nice post. Glad to read about this exhibition. Probably worth the trip.