graduate at Ciências Sociais from Universite de Paris VII - Universite Denis Diderot (1973), graduate at Psicologia from Université Réné Descartes Sorbonne (1976), master's at Antropologia Social from Universite de Paris VIII (1974) and ph.d. at Antropologia from Universidade de São Paulo (1983). Has experience in Antropology, focusing on Urban Anthropology, acting on the following subjects: cultura, antropologia, igreja católica, religiosidade and identidade. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This project investigates the institutional reconfigurations of the Brazilian State, religious organizations, and civil associations in light of the incorporation of principles and the implementation of policies related to pluralism established as an intrinsic value to democracy by the 1988 Constitution. The main focus of the proposal is to describe the tensions that followed the changes …
Brazilian society, even when it comes to its secular development, has been historically constituted by Catholicism. However, since the end of the 1980s, it is possible to recognize a reconfiguration of Brazilian secularism after the Pentecostal churches expressive expansion which includes a strong influence in the Parliament, media and governmental institutions. In this project we are wor…
This project proposes a comparative research program on religious diversity in Brazil and Canada. In both cases there are multiple religious agents challenging the limits of the public space and its configuration. Some of the most outstanding features of the Brazilian religious field are its immense diversity of creeds, its ongoing capacity to invent new religions, and the widespread beli…
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The research proposed in this project aims at understanding how different social imaginations are underlying disputes for the meanings of democracy in the post-1988 Federal Constitution Brazil. To do so, it will analyze Brasil Paralelo's audiovisual pieces that approach the intricate relations of racial and sexual minorities to freedom of opinion and religious freedom in Brazil and elsewh…
This research seeks to undertake a comparative analysis between the ways in which state policies in Brazil and Canada are operationalized to regulate the growing religious and non-religious diversity present in both countries. In order to do so, we adopted an unusual path, which involves investigating how the school subject of Religious Education is formatted and offered in public schools…
The scientific initiation research will map the terms and categories that were used by common persons when they were stimulated to think about controversial themes like religious, political, and Brazilian racial diversity. That objective is going to be operationalized from the coding, in the Atlas-Ti software, a series of 96 interviews that are already done in the project "Religion, Law, …
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Despite the enormous amount and variety of analyses on the Durkheimian sociology of religion, the specialized literature has never successfully determined Durkheim's contribution to the study of rituals. Recognizing such a gap in prior research, this study aims to elaborate a systematic and critical reconstruction of Durkheim, Hubert, and Mauss' approach to investigating rituals within th…
This postdoctoral research project has as a privileged case of anthropological inquiry the processes of conception, formulation, construction and finishing of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes - known as the ""Indigenous Cathedral"" - and carried out by the Salesian Mission in the community of Maturacá (Amazonas). With the hypothesis that from this temple an ""ethnoecological religion"" i…
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This BEPE proposal is an arm of my ongoing postdoctoral research which investigates the articulations between ecology and ethnicity that guide the socio-environmental policies carried out by the Catholic Church in Brazil. I propose a 12-month BEPE research stay at the University of Edinburgh, under the supervision of Professor Maya Mayblin, preeminent scholar in the field of anthropology …
Considering the growing relevance of the study of rituals in contemporary social theory, this project aims to reassess the legacy of the Durkheimian sociology of religion in order to provide a big picture of how the debate on Durkheim has evolved from Talcott Parsons to the present-day social theorists. In this regard, a set of works that symbolize the main trends in the Durkheimian schol…
Under the "protection of God'', the 1988 Brazilian Constitution was instituted to secure, among other principles, "liberty", "justice", "welfare" and "equality" to a whole society where "prejudices" would not find a place to rest. In the years that followed it, social actors from the north to the south of the country have taken its lines to claim for social visibility an unprecedented ser…
In argue that human rights are a language that supports local, national, and international institutions, but also works as a means of political communication when appropriated by different subjects to formulate political demands. In other words, human rights are a mediating language of different social relations, and this language has its specific grammar, codes, forms, and aesthetics. I …
The question of religious intolerance, despite its antiquity, poses new challenges today, given the globalization, cultural diversity, speed of trade and the phenomenon of migration, forced or not. How can we ensure that we live together respectful of both religious freedom and cultural pluralism, including religious diversity? How can different cultures contribute to addressing violence …
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| 39 / 21 | Completed scholarships in Brazil |
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