The Center for Religious Experimentalism
The Center for Religious Experimentalism was formed, as an initiative of New Ideas for a New Era, to give voice to emerging and obscure religious formats and practices. The Center should be considered a platform for beta testing new ideas about religious expression, ideological delivery mechanisms, artistically oriented evangelism or community introspection practices.
The Center will eventually be able to provide a physical space to be used as a Religious Laboratory, offering short term residencies for the development and presentation of new and exciting experiences.
In the interim, The Center will be a virtual space, primarily focused on encouraging, and showcasing video and audio work that fits within the scope of Religious Experimentalism. We’d love to hear from you!
A few guidelines for consideration are as follows:
* The experience must embody, or exude an air of, sincerity.
* The experience should encourage introspection, individually, or communally
* The experience should be exemplary in nature instead of evangelical (attendees should not be pressured towards conversion)
A few very loose examples of the diversity of experiences we are interested in hosting are:
* An Extreme Optimism Dance Party
* Atheist Chanting
* Subsonic sound waves coupled with meditation
* Sermons against sermons
* Partaking of ….
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