Public Lecture: Religion in the City; Co-sponsored by Department of Theology & Department of Sociology

Religion is changing, cities are changing, and people are changing. The panel will explore how local communities create new social and religious symbols and structures outside the established religious institutions emerging from the peripheries, such as popular art, rap music, graffiti, tattoos, comics, and social performances. The event will occur at 5 pm on Thursday, March 13th, 2025, at Devlin 101 at Boston College.

Speakers will include Dr. Hugo José Suárez of UNAM Mexico City, author of Guadalupanos en París (2023) & Paris a diario (2022); Dr. Omar Rivera of Texas A&M University, author of Delimitations of Latin American Philosophy: Beyond Redemption (Indiana, 2019) and Andean Aesthetics and Anticolonial Resistance (Bloomsbury, 2021); Dr. Cleusa Caldeira of PUC Campinas, Brazil, member of the “Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians” and regional coordinator of the Brazil-Latin America Chapter of the "Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians", and a researcher for the “Beyond Global Violence Initiative” research project. Click here to register to attend the event!

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