Occupying New Spaces: the “Digital Turn” of Afro-Brazilian Religions During the Covid-19 OutbreakInternational Journal of Latin American Religions - Tập 4 - Trang 250-258 - 2020
Giovanna Capponi, Patrício Carneiro Araújo
This paper intends to analyze how Afro-Brazilian religious minorities (like Candomblé and Umbanda) are responding to the Covid-19 crisis in Brazil both at a religious and political level. Drawing a comparison between the reactions of Neo-Pentecostal churches and Afro-Brazilian religions, we will describe how the pandemic outbreak and the social distancing measures allowed Afro-religious practition...... hiện toàn bộ
Politics of Spirit. Latin Muslim in Los Angeles, CAInternational Journal of Latin American Religions - Tập 3 - Trang 105-115 - 2018
Arely Medina
The USA has been constituted as a country of immigrants and although it has benefited from diverse immigration flows. The state is looking to stablish some migration policies focused on excluding, segregating, and assimilating the migrants. They were asked to forget their ancestry, their land, and their identity, renouncing to what they once were and to become Americans. Without entering into a de...... hiện toàn bộ
Chronic Illness, Religiosity, and Spirituality in Brazil: Health Professionals’ Perceptions and GuidelinesInternational Journal of Latin American Religions - Tập 6 - Trang 148-170 - 2022
Lilian Maria Borges, Lucia Emmanoel Novaes Malagris, Marta Helena de Freitas
Experiencing a chronic illness can arouse feelings of helplessness and fear in the face of the progression and incurability of the disease. In seeking to find meaning or support in this experience, many people tend to develop or refine their spirituality. However, we still need to better understand how diseases and their chronicity impact the religious and spiritual beliefs and attitudes of people...... hiện toàn bộ
Chico Xavier and the Sacred Experience: a Semiotic and Ethnopsychological PerspectiveInternational Journal of Latin American Religions - Tập 6 - Trang 299-322 - 2022
Maurício S. Neubern
This article aims to propose and understanding of the Sacred experience in relation to Chico Xavier, an important Brazilian Spiritist medium from the twentieth century. From a theoretical methodology based on semiotics and ethnopsychology, the article initially begins with a discussion on the notion of Sacred and the changes that occurred in Spiritism since its origins in France, linked to philoso...... hiện toàn bộ
Church and Education in Argentina During the Second Half of the Twentieth CenturyInternational Journal of Latin American Religions - - Trang 1-17 - 2023
Laura Graciela Rodríguez
In this article, we will analyze the positions adopted by the representatives of the Catholic Church in the face of the educational policies that were implemented by the officials in the Ministry of Culture and Education at the national level. We will focus on the editorials written between 1963 and 2008 by the directors of the newspaper Consudec, the organ of the Higher Council of Catholic Educat...... hiện toàn bộ
Popular Religion or Lived Religion? Exploring Indigenous Religious Festival Practice in MexicoInternational Journal of Latin American Religions - Tập 7 Số 1 - Trang 124-146 - 2023
Ivy Alana Rieger
AbstractThis article investigates the practice of lived religion in two contemporary indigenous communities in Mexico (San Juan Mixtepec, Oaxaca and El Espíritu, Hidalgo) by examining some of their unique religious festive traditions to analyze the ways in which human and non-human social actors interact with one another to create networks of symbolic meaning and s...... hiện toàn bộ
Lusophony Pentecostal Churches in Berlin: Religious Identities Between Integration and Transatlantic BoundariesInternational Journal of Latin American Religions - Tập 6 - Trang 477-499 - 2021
Stefan van der Hoek
Although migration is a constant in human history, current trajectories have new quantitative and qualitative features with religious implications, which are addressed in this article. What is new and paradoxical about what is commonly referred to as globalization is the diffuse nature of worldwide migration and the mobility of people, ideas, and goods. This article therefore explores how members ...... hiện toàn bộ