The Canadian Museum of Civilization presents Upcoming God(s). A User’s Guide an opportunity to discover and reflect on religious practices an exhibition on view through September 3, 2012.
A print depicting the familiar face of Jesus Christ—but in the distinctive graphic style of the Tsimshian, a West Coast First Nation. A fierce, dramatic and colourful Indonesian wooden sculpture of the eagle god Garuda, who plays a role in both Hindu and Buddhist mythology. An elaborately decorated ark (a receptacle containing a synagogue’s Torah scrolls) carved in 1923 by a Montréal artisan for the thriving Jewish community in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island.
The exhibition offers visitors experiential insights—through a combination of 225 exquisite and evocative sacred objects and other artifacts, sounds, multimedia, lighting and interactive elements—into the practices and beliefs of the world’s major religions. Its 11 themes bring into focus how the universality of spiritual questioning is expressed through specific and diverse religious practices. – www.civilization.ca