GPAD
Research Group on the anthropology of devotion
We have been holding discussions and giving courses at the PPGAS/MN/FRJ, open to students from various institutions, since 2007 but in 2010 the GPAD was officially consolidated with the institutional support of the PPGAS and FAPERJ´s funding. The group works around topics such as the production of new analysis on symbols and practices associated to religion, whether this is understood as a principle of values and representations, or as a set of practices of social “entanglement”. Group members have conducted research on saint cults, religious feasts, religious objects and on the relationships between religion and art, the market and the State. In 2015, a PhD. Thesis defended by a group member won the CAPES thesis prize in Anthropology.
Coordinator: Renata Castro Menezes
Research lines
Saint cult
Feasts, rituals, performances and symbolism
Materialities
Religion, State, Society
Religions in connection: socio-anthropological and historical studies.
Researchers
Edilson Sandro Pereira, UERJ
João Marcus Figueiredo Assis, Uni-Rio
Raquel dos Santos Sousa Lima, Coluni-UFV
Students:
Catarine Marques Rodrigues Gaspar
Debora Simões de Souza Mendel
Gopala Miron de Assis
Lucas Bártolo Martins de Oliveira
Maria Alice Souza Schettini
Morena Barroso Martins de Freitas
Paula Frias dos Santos
Tecnical support:
Ana Lúcia Vieira Ranna.
Research Group on the anthropology of devotion
We have been holding discussions and giving courses at the PPGAS/MN/FRJ, open to students from various institutions, since 2007 but in 2010 the GPAD was officially consolidated with the institutional support of the PPGAS and FAPERJ´s funding. The group works around topics such as the production of new analysis on symbols and practices associated to religion, whether this is understood as a principle of values and representations, or as a set of practices of social “entanglement”. Group members have conducted research on saint cults, religious feasts, religious objects and on the relationships between religion and art, the market and the State. In 2015, a PhD. Thesis defended by a group member won the CAPES thesis prize in Anthropology.
Coordinator: Renata Castro Menezes
Research lines
Saint cult
Feasts, rituals, performances and symbolism
Materialities
Religion, State, Society
Religions in connection: socio-anthropological and historical studies.
Researchers
Edilson Sandro Pereira, UERJ
João Marcus Figueiredo Assis, Uni-Rio
Raquel dos Santos Sousa Lima, Coluni-UFV
Students:
Catarine Marques Rodrigues Gaspar
Debora Simões de Souza Mendel
Gopala Miron de Assis
Lucas Bártolo Martins de Oliveira
Maria Alice Souza Schettini
Morena Barroso Martins de Freitas
Paula Frias dos Santos
Tecnical support:
Ana Lúcia Vieira Ranna.
