Tag: DeShannon Bowens

  • Nation & World

    Africa’s love supreme

    On Friday, a Harvard religious studies group — the only one to focus on faith traditions from the African diaspora — hosts a conference to investigate the varieties of love: devotion, intimacy, and ecstasy.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The world as sacred

    The first conference on African diasporic religions offered spiritual lessons from the continent that helped to create humankind, including a reminder that the body itself is a sacred space.

    6 minutes