Utopies, heterotopies and some mediation processes

• Grant number: 11/07004-6
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - Brazil
• Start date: May 25, 2011
• End date: May 27, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Theory of Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Melvina Afra Mendes de Araújo
• Grantee: Melvina Afra Mendes de Araújo
• Visiting researcher: Patricia Birman
• Visiting researcher institution: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH), Brazil
• Host Institution: Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 08/10758-0 - Alterity and mediation: processes of construction of the ‘other’ in catholic and protestant universes in Brazil and Africa, AP.JP

Abstract

The evangelical discourses and practices are not usually examined in relation to its territorial insertions. However, the division of spaces and thepreparing their mappings to obeyed in some cases religious and social criteria as specific targets that were of a missionary. We intendcompare the work of evangelical leaders, its objectives and specific forms of definnitions space for two territories perceived asheterotopic, ie spaces as "other"in the sense of "different"and also able to reflect utopies, as suggested by Michel Foucault. (AU)