Similar Diversity

Similar Diversity is an information graphic which opens up a new perspective at the topics religion and faith by visualizing the Holy Books of five world religions. Communalities and differences of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism are shown up in this datavisualization. The visual’s basis is an objective text analysis of the Holy Scriptures, and works without any interpretations from the creators’ side. This is a project by Philipp Steinweber and Andreas Koller.

The viewers should be inspired to think about own prejudices and current religious conflicts.

This is a particularly interesting and at the same time sensible project to me. I am not a very religius person, but I was raised in a very strict catholic household. It is to me very interesting to see all these different religions put together in one big project. It is also a very personal subject. It has nothing to do with the head but mostly to do with the heart. Faith is not a rational thing. And there are so many different relogions in the world and there are a lot of differences between religions but also a lot of similarities and that is why I enjoyed this project a lot.