RELIGIOUS ART | NEWS OF WEEK

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By TAHLIB

This week victims' friends and relatives, rescue workers and survivors of Sept. 11, 2001 descended into a subterranean space in NYC to consolidate their hearts at the world's first interfaith pilgrimage site. A religious pilgrimage is a physical demonstration of solidarity with others of your faith to consolidate in your heart that you are living the life intended by God. Pilgrimage sites remind us what and why we believe, and the museum and this week's opening ceremonies were designed as a religious pilgrimage akin to Christian, Buddhist, or Islamic shrines. That's why the September 11 Memorial & Museum (above) is my NEWS OF WEEK. Do you feel called? Join me.

In other religious art news from across the USA, and around the world:

• Buddhist Art of Week: 50 Manga artists gather together for Buddha exhibition [More News]
• Christian Art of Week: Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ" auctioned for $185,000 [More News]
• Hindu Art of Week: Tuesday was the Hindu holyday of Narasimha Jayanti [More News]
• Islamic Art of Week: Brit's organize contemporary Islamic art show for Russians [More News]
• Judaic Art of Week: Non-Jews donate Holocaust Torah to Virginia University [More News]

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