TERM PAPERS ON RELIGION
Who is God?
Worshipping is a way to communicate
beliefs and feelings of individuals and religious communities. Every
society I have every studied from the American Indians to the Ancient
Greek have all believed in some form of worship or religion. Altars have
been and are in existence in several if not all forms of region. Robert
Farris Thompson depicts this for the African population in " Overture:
The Concept 'Altar,' " and " With the Assurance of Infinity: Yoruba
Atlantic Altars," Face of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the
African Americas, through pictures he and others have taken, has well as
evidence from assorted books, articles, poems and songs, Thompson shows
the meaningful role the Altar had in self expression of the Africans.
łThe aim is to view black Atlantic art, especially in the New World, in
terms of thoughtfully selected [altar] objects belonging to specific
philosophic constellations which help to define the face of divinity.˛
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