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08/11/2024

Thank you Rodrigo and Marcella for these two wonderful conferences at UCLouvain!
• The first one GRIAL UCL : Rodrigo Toniol et Marcella Araujo on ‘Material religion, colonial heritage, and building modernity in Brazil’.
• The second at Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Prospective: Rodrigo Toniol, ‘The universalization of spirituality as a health condition’.
Two stimulating and generous talks !
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Gracias Rodrigo y Marcella por estas dos maravillosas charlas en la UCLouvain!
• La primera en el GRIAL : Rodrigo Toniol et Marcella Auraujo sobre ‘Material religion, colonial heritage, and building modernity in Brazil’
• La segunda en el LAAP: Rodrigo Toniol, ‘The universalization of spirituality as a health condition’
Dos charlas estimulantes y generosas !
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Merci Rodrigo et Marcella pour ces deux magnifiques conférences à l'UCLouvain !
• La première au GRIAL : Rodrigo Toniol et Marcella Auraujo sur 'Material religion, colonial heritage, and building modernity in Brazil'.
• La seconde au LAAP : Rodrigo Toniol, 'L'universalisation de la spiritualité comme condition de santé'.
Deux conférences stimulantes et généreuses !

10/04/2023

New Social Compass Online First article by
Patrycja Trzeszczyńska
Konrad Pędziwiatr
Dobrosława Wiktor-Mach

"Between needs, goods and services: Ukrainian immigrants on the Polish religious market"

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00377686231158556

This article seeks to address the intersection of migration and religion/religious affiliation of migrants in Central Europe. Increase in immigration from Ukrai...

07/04/2023

New Social Compass Online First article by Javier JIMÉNEZ-ROYO
“In/dividuality and charisma among Pentecostal Gypsies”

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00377686231158613

This text reflects on the constitution of the Gypsy Pentecostal person, thus inserting itself in the debates on the continuity or rupture that motivate conversi...

06/04/2023

NEW ISSUE – March 2023 (70/1)
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/scpa/70/1

05/04/2023

New Social Compass Online First article by Gustavo MORELLO SJ

“The construction of the sacred through photographs displayed in Latin American homes”

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00377686231157295

From a sociological perspective, sacredness is a social construction. In this article, I stand at the intersection of the tradition of domestic shrines and the ...

03/04/2023

New Social Compass Online First article by
Véronique LECAROS and Samuel ASENJO

« Transnationalisme pentecôtiste et précarité enchantée : le cas du Monte de Oración dans la périphérie suburbaine de Lima, Pérou »

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00377686231154382

This article presents the study of a popular Pentecostal center, Monte de Oración (MO), located in the suburban outskirts of Lima, Peru. The MO, founded by an i...

30/03/2023

New Social Compass Online First article by Gowoon JUNG

“Work–faith integration in the neoliberal age: Women professionals’ alignment of evangelical identity with professional identity in South Korea”

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00377686231154118

Prior studies on work–faith integration have only explained professionals’ negotiation of religious and professional identities within one occupational setting,...

27/03/2023

New Social Compass Online First article by
Avi ASTOR
Rosa MARTÍNEZ-CUADROS
Víctor ALBERT-BLANCO

“Religious representation and performative citizenship: The civic dimensions of Shia lamentation rituals in Barcelona”

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00377686221148408

In diasporic contexts, religious representatives play a key role as cultural ambassadors for their respective communities and religions. This article examines r...

23/03/2023

New Social Compass Online First article by Anna Sofia SALONEN

“Creator, saviour, garburator: (Re)imagining the human role in the world through a case of food waste”

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00377686221144400

The contemporary food system relies on a paradigm of human exceptionalism. But living well together with all forms of life would require that we imagine humans’...

21/03/2023

New Social Compass Online First article by Diego MEZA

« La vérité sur soi-même : les pédagogies de conversion et les nouveaux mouvements religieux catholiques en Amérique latine »

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00377686221108276

In this article, I analyze the conversion retreats of the John XXIII Movement in Ipiales, Colombia in order to understand the swift spread of new Catholic group...

20/03/2023

New Social Compass Online First article by Dimitri ALMEIDA

“Space and secularism: Laïcité, spatial governmentality, and exclusion in French hijab stories”

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00377686221103130

The article frames current practices of French laïcité in terms of spatial governmentality. It builds upon this notion to explore spatialised representations of...