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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Itália
Graduated in Philosophy and specialized in History of Religions, at the Università degli Studi di Padova (1987), Italy. Doctorate in Sociology (1998) and Post-Doctorate in Social History (2000-2003), at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, where, finally, he also did his Free Teaching in 2017. Since 2003, Professor Doctor (Free Teaching) in Modern History at the Department of History (Social History program) at the University of São Paulo. Already a member of the Thematic Research Project of the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP), "Christian Missions and Indigenous Populations: the problem of cultural mediation" and of the Thematic Project "Dimensions of the Portuguese Empire", of the Department of History - FFLCH- USP, Chair 'Jaime Cortesão' and Foundation for Research Support of the State of São Paulo (FAPESP): within which he was, finally, coordinator of the Thematic Nucleus "Religion and Evangelization". Member, since 2014, of the Scientific Committee of the International Magazine "Civiltà e Religioni", since 2020 he is (Co)Director of the same Magazine. He works mainly in the area of Modern History, with an emphasis on Modern and Colonial History, History of Religions, History of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, Catechesis and Mission, Colonization and Cultural Mediation between Europe, America and Asia, Historical Anthropology. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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To approach the missionary mediation of the encounter between Portuguese and Central-Africans is to displace our attention from the cultures understood as systems of beliefs toward how both sides of the encounter situated themselves in relation with each other. It means to advance identities as networks and changes in which the subjects get involved actively. On one hand, the missionaries…
The aim of this PhD project is the comparative study of five confessionals Jesuit-Tupi applied in missionary regions of Grão-Pará and Maranhão and Brazil between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, with the overall objective of presenting models of Catholic confession desired in each one of centuries, considering the social circumstances of penitents and confessors, the available mode…
This work is focused on the first Jesuit mission in the so-called Kingdom of Kongo. The Jesuits arrived in Central Africa in 1548 and the last representative of the order went back to Europe in 1555. The first contact between the Portuguese and the Congolese occurred in 1483. Our investigation aims at studying a specific seven-year period, which took place more than half a century after t…
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The first systematic translation of the Bible into the Portuguese language was prepared throughout the second half of the 17th Century in the Dutch East Indies by Portuguese Calvinist João Ferreira A. d'Almeida (1628-1691). The existent bibliography of its production context has been limited either to biographical analyses of its main idealizer or to typographic surveys on its several edi…
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