Public Lecture: 鈥淩eligion in the City鈥�
Thursday, March 13, 2025聽| 5:00-6:30 PM |聽Devlin 101 | Please to Attend
鈥淟ibre鈥�, Dante Aguilera Ben铆tez (el dante), 50x 70 cm, Silk-screen Printing, Culiac谩n, Sinaloa, 2023
Religion is changing, cities are changing, and聽people are changing. The panel will explore how local communities create new social and religious聽symbols and聽structures outside the established religious聽institutions聽emerging from the peripheries,聽such as聽popular art, rap music, graffiti, tattoos, comics, and social performances.
Co-sponsored by:
Sociology Department - Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Theology Department - Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Schedule and Registration
More to come
Speakers
Hugo Jos茅 Su谩rez
Full-time Researcher at the Institute of Social Research of the UNAM.聽 Doctor in Sociology from the Catholic University of Louvain 鈥� Belgium. Full member of the Bolivian Academy of Language. Director of the journal Culture and Social Representations. Member of the Editorial Committee of the International Journal of Sociology of Religions Social Compass and the journal Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques (Catholic University of Louvain). His last two books: Guadalupanos en Par铆s (2023), Paris a diario (2022). He has published several scientific articles in various national and international journals, as well as chapters in academic books. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at several universities in Latin America and Europe. Research interests: sociology of religion and culture, religious practices in Mexico, visual sociology, qualitative methodology, narrative sociology.
Omar Rivera
Omar Rivera, PhD, is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Faculty Initiatives at the College of Arts and Sciences, Texas A&M University.聽 His research areas are Latin American Philosophy and Aesthetics. He is the author of聽Delimitations of Latin American Philosophy: Beyond Redemption聽(Indiana, 2019) and聽Andean Aesthetics and Anticolonial Resistance聽(Bloomsbury, 2021).
Cleusa Caldeira
Cleusa Caldeira is a Graduate Program in Religious Sciences professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas. She has a degree in Theology from the Seminary Rev. Ant么nio de Godoy Sobrinho and a Master's in Theology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paran谩.聽 Doctorate in Theology from the Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy and Theology - FAJE. Post-doctorate in Theology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paran谩 and the Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy and Theology - FAJE. Since 2021, she has been a researcher for the 鈥淏eyond Global Violence Initiative鈥� research project, coordinated by Prof. Carlos Mendoza-脕lvarez. Since 2023, member of the 鈥淐ircle of Concerned African Women Theologians鈥� and regional coordinator of the Brazil-Latin America Chapter of the "Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians."
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