The show highlights the artist's portrayal and exploration of the Afro - Brazilian people and spiritual culture of Bahia based on his Sacatar Foundation Fellowship in 2011, an experience so profound that documenting and interpreting it has occupied much of the past six years. (pacificstandardtime.org)
The satisfactions to be derived from participating in a common spiritual culture now seem quaint. (religion-online.org)
They may need to discover and to re-tell a unifying story of the country Of course, this runs against the academic grain, which nurtures what it believes to be a healthy contempt for the nation (let alone its historic spiritual culture) and a self - protecting indifference to the local community In America, where unbalanced individuality and unbalanced diversity seem sacred, the wildness of history is blowing at cyclone force, and the ability to cope with it seems to be a dying art. (religion-online.org)