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Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
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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Valuable research has been undertaken on current social polarization, weaponization of difference and democratic backsliding. Less common are investigations into everyday navigation and negotiation of diversity in creating conditions for mutual understanding and social recognition. Our proposed project, "Repairing sociality, safeguarding democracy: Transatlantic North-South narratives and…
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 aim of the Scientific Initiation is to understand the role of religion in the debate over the Forest Code during the period from 2008 to 2012. For this purpose, it will analyze how actors who publicly identify as religious engaged in the debate over the Forest Code during the specified period and what kind of relationships they established with other national actors associated with ag…
This project aims to investigate the institutional reconfigurations of the Brazilian State, religious organizations and civil associations in light of the incorporation of the principles and implementation of policies related to pluralism established as an intrinsic value of democracy by the 1988 Constitution. The main focus of the proposal is the tensions that have accompanied the curren…
The research investigates how racial and religious conflicts are negotiated in the daily lives of family networks and neighborhood relations in Brazil, particularly in interracial and multireligious families. Based on the growing visibility of religious and racial pluralism in the post-1988 context, the study seeks to understand how individuals navigate differences in their daily interact…
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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, …
This research project is a continuation of the inquiry into the Brazilian Association of Atheists and Agnostics (ATEA) during which the legal advocacy was used as a legitimation strategy in Brazilian society. As a PhD candidate the main focus of research will be how atheistic means of socialization has incentivized a grassroots movement in which nonreligious lifestyles may prosper. The pr…
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The research approaches the role of religion in audiovisual productions by Brasil Paralelo, an entertainment company that targets the so-called "conservative" and "right-wing" segments. In pieces addressing feminism and abortion, Brasil Paralelo crafts a discourse on rights by intertwining as linguagens da religião e da ciência. Both languages are currently spoken in disputes over the mea…
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…
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…
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