Nuno Oliveira

José Mapril

Maria Manuela Mendes

Andreia Magalhães

Ana Tomás

Hélène Veiga Gomes

Este livro lança um novo olhar sobre a diversidade cultural numa dupla perspetiva; por um lado, como é que esta é organizada nos espaços urbanos centrais e por outro, como se articula com expressões e regimes espaciais particulares. No fundo, procura-se analisar as modalidades através das quais a diversidade, de um tipo cosmopolita, integra certos espaços do tecido urbano, sendo nesse âmbito solicitada por decisores políticos e utilizada estrategicamente por empreendedores de origem imigrante. A investigação levada a efeito sustentou-se numa abordagem qualitativa e incidiu sobre os mecanismos e estratégias para a acomodação da diversidade cultural no espaço local, explorando quer a vertente das experiências quotidianas e dos encontros culturais quer os aspetos estratégicos e deliberativos das redes de governança local e da diversidade de atores presentes nos territórios analisados. Neste sentido, é questionado como se integra a diversidade cultural nos processos de renovação urbana, de criação de imagens da cidade, de gentrificação, prestando atenção aos sujeitos e estratégias da governança local. Ou seja, como se incluem os imigrantes e grupos etnicamente diversos nas estratégias dos governos locais e nos espaços urbanos sobre as quais estas incidem?

Diversidades, Espaço e Migrações na Cidade Empreendedora

Philip J. Havik

Clara Saraiva

This volume explores the different aspects of the management of death, dying and mortality by migrants in Southern Europe, through deconstructing persistent idiosyncratic beliefs, myths, narratives, silences, and constraints. It focuses on migrants from diverse geographical and cultural backgrounds in Portugal, Spain and Italy. It also includes reflections on Madagascar, Guinea-Bissau, East-Timor and Cuba. The thirteen chapters provide insights into epistemological issues, the trans-national circulation of bodies, spirits and rituals, migration, the placing of the dead and diverse funerary practices and perspectives. Privileging a multi-sited approach to death and migrations, this book draws on oral, archival and published sources to give visibility to populations that often live in liminal structural positions and transient worlds. By exploring the multifaceted dimensions of death and suffering among immigrant populations, it refocuses the debate on migration in Europe and beyond by highlighting under-researched issues such as end-of-life care, mental health, death, burial, cremation, funerary ceremonies and symbols, repatriation and martyrdom.

Managing Narratives, Silences and Constraints in a Trans-National Perspective

Death on the Move

Peter Jan Margry

Lionel Obadia

Kinga Povedák

The various ethnologists and anthropologists contributing to this volume focus on the "self"-perspective in relation to religion and spirituality: on how religiosity is personally thought, dreamt, imagined, created, felt, perceived and experienced, in its various subjective forms. The personal motive and practice in religion is here put to the front. One can see this perspective also reflected in today's society, in the ways people, most strongly in the West, are nowadays dealing with religion, religiosity or spirituality, often drifted far away from the institutional church organizations. As a deeply personal experience, it is amazing how little effort is undertaken in a scholarly way to put the personal reflections, utterings and experiences into words. A wide variety of personal religious or spiritual experiences, Christian and non-Christian, recent and historical, are now described and analysed in this fascinating volume. Clara Saraiva is a senior researcher at the Lisbon Institute for Scientific Tropical Research in Lisbon, a researcher of the Center for Research in Anthropology (cria) and a Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Peter Jan Margry is Professor for European ethnology at the University of Amsterdam and Senior Research Fellow at Meertens Institute, KNAW , Amsterdam. Lionel Obadia is professor in anthropology at the University of Lyon. Kinga Povedak is assistant research fellow at the has Research Group on Religious Culture,at Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Jose Mapril is lecturer in Anthropology at the New University of Lisbon and a research fellow at CRIA - New University of Lisbon (Centre for Anthropological Research). (Series:?Ethnology of Religion, Vol. 1) [Subject: Religious Studies, Sociology, Anthropology]

New Approaches to Personal Religiosity

Experiencing Religion

Erin K. Wilson

Ruy Blanes

Emerson Giumbelli

This volume ethnographically explores the relation between secularities and religious subjectivities.As a consequence of the demise of secularization theory, we live in an interesting intellectual moment where the so-called ‘post-secular’ coexists with the secular, which in turn has become pluralized and historicized. This cohabitation of the secular and post-secular is revealed mainly through political dialectical processes that overshadow the subjective and inter-subjective dimensions of secularity, making it difficult to pinpoint concrete sites, agents, and objects of expression. Drawing on cases from South America, Africa, and Europe, contributors apply key insights from religious studies debates on the genealogies and formations of both religion and secularism. They explore the spaces, persons, and places in which these categories emerge and mutually constitute one another.

Religiosities and Subjectivities in Comparative Perspective

Secularisms in a Postsecular Age?

Moving beyond the current media verves, this book debates, from a critical perspective, case studies on the sites and politics of religious diversity in Southern Europe.

The Best of All Gods

Sites and Politics of Religious Diversity in Southern Europe

José Mapril

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