The Human Experience

Cover photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh. Content includes cultures, religions, & philosophies from around the world. Captions, photos, etc are not mine unless otherwise stated. -Daily updates- ~BA in Religious Studies~ ~MA~

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What will you find here?

Here you will discover photography, music, educational videos, art, news articles, historical events, current events, and more, primarily about religions, philosophies, & cultures. All are intended to inform, educate, and enlighten.

Upcoming Posts (all posts are queued): June

6/1-7: Santeria

6/8-13: Mexico

6/14-20: Uganda

6/21-26: Italy & Vatican City

6/27-30: Various posts

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Don Aldo Buonaiuto holds items necessary for exorcisms on January 12, 2012, in Rome, Italy.

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Archbishop Mario Delpini blesses a field with holy water in front of the San Martino Olearo in Mediglia, northern Italy, Saturday, June 25, 2022. Delpini made a pilgrimage to pray for “the gift of rain,” visiting three churches near Milan that serve the farming community. The mayor of Milan signed an ordinance Saturday turning off public decorative fountains and limiting water sprinklers in Italy’s business capital as northern Italy endures one of the worst droughts in decades. 

(AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

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March 2023: Islamic religious officials observe the position of the moon ahead of Ramadan at the Galileo Galilei astronomical observatory in Novara, Italy.

Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

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Rome, Italy: A child stands amid kneeling worshippers marking Kurban-Ait, also known as Eid al-Adha, in downtown Rome. 2017.

Photograph: Yara Nardi/Reuters

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Hearts with messages cover a tree outside the Basilica of St. Valentine in Terni, Italy, on Feb. 13, 2024. (RNS photo/Claire Giangravé)

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Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas opens the holy door of the Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome on New Year's Day, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025, one of the events starting the Jubilee of 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

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March 2025: Rome, Italy Rosaries for Pope Francis in front of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, where the pontiff has been hospitalised Photograph: Andrew Medichini/AP

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2021: Muslim worshippers from the local Bengali community attend Eid al-Fitr prayers in a parking lot in Monza, near Milan, Italy. [Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images]

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May 27, 2025: Nuns stand on the day Pope Leo XIV takes possesion of Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano (Basilica of St. John Lateran), in Rome Italy. REUTERS/Vincenzo Livieri

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March 2025: Rome, Italy Tourists consult a map near the Vatican Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

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A religious statue slumps to the side after an earthquake hit the island of Ischia, near Naples, Italy, August 22, 2017. REUTERS/Ciro De Luca

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Barefoot Pappamusci devotees wait for the departure of the Holy Week procession in Francavilla Fontana, Italy, April 18, 2025. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo

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Hungarian Cardinal Péter Erdo, bottom center, speaks at St. Francesca Romana Church in Rome, May 4, 2025. (RNS photo/Aleja Hertzler-McCain)

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Participants lights candles during an inter-religious meeting organized by the Sant' Egidio Community to pray for peace, in front of the Arch of Constantine outside the Colosseum in Rome, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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Pope Leo XIV attends an inter-religious meeting to pray for peace inside the Colosseum in Rome, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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Faithful participating in the Youth Jubilee sleep at the Tor Vergata field ahead of the Mass celebrated by Pope Leo XIV in Rome, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)