graduation at Ciências Sociais from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2000), master's at Antropology from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1996) and doctorate at Antropology from Universidade de São Paulo (2002). Has experience in Antropology, acting on the following subjects: religião, evangélicos, cidade, pentecostalismo and igreja universal. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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For more than a century social researchers, political leaders, community activists as well as local residents have developed a range of ideologies and theories to explain the city. Recently, demographers published studies in affirmation that the majority of humans are now "urban". Cultural anthropologists occupy an interesting niche within this dynamic due to their fundamental principles …
The presence of religion in the ministerial and administrative structure of the Brazilian Government, inscribed by conservative sectors of various confessions, has been considered by contemporary academic literature as a movement of formation of a religious Right in Brazil, whose political action is marked by participation in the formulation of legislative norms and public policies. That …
This research focuses on the moral field articulated by the current Federal Government concerning the regulation of bodies and behaviors, throughout an analysis of the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights (MMFDH). The goal is to explore issues that encompass the category "family". The analysis applied in this doctoral dissertation is based on the imbrication existing between the Gov…
The focus of this research project is to compare Canadian multiculturalism and Brazilian pluralism as two different modes of governance. The starting point is the hypothesis that pluralism in Brazil has a particular configuration, presenting itself as a sui generis case. Thus, we turn our attention to an analysis of the arguments regarding the patrimonialization processes in Brazil, and t…
This research project aims to investigate the transit of people, practices, spirits and categories in Maputo, capital of Mozambique, focusing on the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (IURD) and its followers. This will be done, considering that we are facing a recent but complex change in the religious field in Mozambique, which is evident in the reconfiguration of the "spirit world"…
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Considering the importance of analyzing different regulation processes in order to better understand the ways in which the use of ayahuasca becomes a public problem, this postdoctoral research proposes an analysis of the regulation processes concerning the use of ayahuasca in Canada. Presently, the possession, sale, and consumption of ayahuasca in the country are criminalized. Nonetheless…
The project aims to understand the articulation between evangelicals and conservatism in the Brazilian crisis, which was triggered by the street protests of June 2013, polarized in the 2014 elections, deepened with the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff in 2016, and whose most recent deployment was the election of a politician with the right-wing rhetoric in 2018. A significant part …
In a dialogue with French pragmatism, particularly with the work of Daniel Cefaï, this project assumes that the analysis of the recognition process of the religious use of ayahuasca as intangible cultural heritage can provide a relevant study on the ways in which religion takes the form of a public problem in Brazil. According to pragmatism, public problems arise and take shape when a com…
This research project has the goal to understand the spirits traffic's through materialities used by different religious act in the spirit world in Maputo (Mozambique South) as part of my Ph.D. project that is associated to the São Paulo State Research Foundation (FAPESP). I intend to analyze how the "traditional" spirits traffic by religious agents (like pastors from Universal Church Kin…
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