Session: Traditional Spirituality & Healing: gender roles and expressions in African, Caribbean and Pacific traditional spirituality

Time: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Location: 1.9 - Berlagezaal
Track: Religion & Spirituality

Description

African, Caribbean, and Pacific spiritual traditions have long understood gender and expressions beyond binaries. This session explores how pre-colonial spiritual practices affirmed diverse roles and expressions, and how contemporary healing ceremonies continue this legacy. Through dialogue, and shared wisdom, we’ll examine the beauty of the sacred, and the power of rituals. Oral legends that can offer frameworks for inclusion, resilience, and community well-being.

Participants will leave informed and empowered on how reclaiming spiritual heritage can show a path for all religious forms worldwide—from divine androgyny to third-gender deities—and include queerness as tool for spiritual healing, wholeness, and collective liberation.