Special topics in science of religion

• Grant number: 15/09773-8
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: August 03, 2015
• End date: August 05, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Theology
• Principal Investigator: Paulo Sérgio Lopes Gonçalves
• Grantee: Paulo Sérgio Lopes Gonçalves
• Visiting researcher: Steven Joseph Engler
• Visiting researcher institution: Mount Royal University, Canada
• Host Institution: Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUC-CAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Professor Dr. Joseph Steven Engler Mount Royal University - Canada Period: 03-05 August 2015 Activities (I): Lessons August, 3rd, 2 pm to 3:35 pm Theme: The state of the international field (1) Summary: Great modern researchers: offering a series of short summaries a sample of researchers in Europe and North America, its projects, and of its publications; August, 3rd, 4 to 6:30 Theme: The state of the international arena (2) Summary: Institutional Threats and disciplinary opportunities (with examples of Europe, North America, and Africa, and openness to a discussion of Brazilian context, offer a look on the one hand, on trends in policy university and government that impact the science programs (s) of religion and,on the other hand, on certain disciplinary and pedagogical opportunities correlated); August, 4th, 2:05 pm to 6:30 pm Theme: Rethinking our object of study Summary: syncretism, hybridity, and "lived religion" (focusing on religions in Brazil It argues that "religion" should not be framed with essentialist definitions;must be searched on the basis of well contextualized field work); August, 5th, 2:05 p.m. to 6:00 hours. Theme: The good circle Summary: Meta-theory, theory, methods, and data (explain the need to think Search in all these four levels, with concrete examples of relations being them). Activities (II): Orientation and Scientific Meeting August, 4th, 8:00 to 12:00 hours. Research guidance for students of the Graduate Program in Stricto Sensu Religious Sciences August, 5th, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 pm Scientific meeting of all the research groups of the Graduate Program Sensu strict in religious studies. (AU)