Eugenia Scarzanella, “Isabel e la sua ombra. Dall’Argentina degli anni Trenta all’Italia occupata dai nazisti”, Cosenza, Pellegrini 2023
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
“Vivir la violencia en el Perú del nuevo milenio”, Oswaldo Estrada y Carlos Villacorta (eds.), Lima: Ediciones MYL, pp. 335
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
La promoción de cantantes españoles en el cine del segundo franquismo: las películas de Raphael
El cine musical español fue habitual durante el franquismo, con actores que cantaban o con cantantes que actuaban. Vinculado en un principio a estilos populares, apostó desde los años 60 por la canción melódica o el pop, y fomentó una idea de modernida…
“Ospitalità” e traduzione di scrittori africani “in rivolta”. Le poesie anticoloniali in lingua portoghese nell’Italia degli anni Sessanta
L’articolo ricostruisce le condizioni di ospitalità di opere poetiche africane in lingua portoghese nell’Italia degli anni Sessanta. Sono particolarmente indagati il ruolo di figure-cerniera e/o traduttori, quali Joyce Lussu, Giuseppe Tavani e Pier Pao…
Negra, afro-brasileira, afrodescendente: a literatura de Zeli de Oliveira Barbosa
O objetivo deste ensaio é discutir algumas posições polêmicas no que diz respeito à literatura brasileira produzida por escritores afrodescendentes. Qual é a categoria mais adequada de se usar quando se fala desses textos? Literatura afro-brasileira? L…
Iglesia católica y peronismo. Vínculos entre el poder político y eclesiástico en un territorio periférico de la Argentina (Chaco, 1943-1951)
En este artículo nos propusimos examinar los vínculos personales y políticos establecidos entre el presidente Juan Domingo Perón y monseñor Nicolás De Carlo, obispo de la diócesis de Resistencia (Chaco, Argentina). Entre los años 1946 y 1951, este sace…
Os “entusiasmados praticantes comuns” e o passado on demand: uma leitura do vídeo de Felipe Castanhari sobre a ditadura civil-militar brasileira
Este artigo estuda a produção e a circulação de um vídeo produzido pelo YouTuber Felipe Castanhari sobre a ditadura civil-militar brasileira. Argumenta-se que a narrativa elaborada pelo YouTuber atualiza certa interpretação histórica e memorial sobre a…
Is appropriation a useful category for scholarship on religion?
Concluding remarks for the special issue of Approaching Religion, ‘Appropriation as a Perspective and Topic in the Study of Religion and Spirituality’.
Facilitating pura medicina
In this article, based on my doctoral research, I discuss the appropriation of religious elements from South America by Finnish ‘mystical tourists’. The plant medicine ceremonies are approached as spiritual commodities. Imagining local beliefs and prac…
Accusing witches in the twenty-first century
There is little about globalized modern magical-religious Witchcraft that isn’t borrowed. It is well established that it is a creative response to modernity rather than an ancient continuous practice. Its inventiveness also makes it ripe for charges of…
Tradition and ownership
A new dispute about the ownership of Karelian laments emerged in Finland in 2021. The severely endangered Karelian language is the closest relative of Finnish. Karelian laments were brought into new Finnish contexts during the late twentieth century by…
Shades of whiteness
This study examines the appropriation of religious symbols by the Nordic Alt-Right over the last decade, focusing on their use for völkisch identity construction around whiteness. It locates this signification historically, both before and during the T…
Inter- and intra-religious appropriation
Moluccan people arrived in the Netherlands in 1951, as a result of the complicated process of the decolonization of Indonesia. A situation of permanent waiting and political disappointment resulted in this growing Moluccan community remaining. The Molu…
‘When somebody tells you who you are’
This article investigates the notion of spiritual appropriation in Finnish schools, with a particular focus on the experiences of religious minorities. It draws on narratives from these communities, shedding light on their daily experiences in the educ…
Appropriation as a perspective and topic in the study of religion and spirituality
Cultural appropriation is a timely topic that has been taking up a lot of space in public discussions. The concept is often applied in heated debates aimed at calling out’ different actors and actions as appropriation, or on the other hand t…
The appropriation of mindfulness in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Mindfulness has gained increasing popularity across Western societies over the past couple of decades, although mainly in forms that have been stripped of all religious content. During this period, the practice has also attracted the interest of mainst…
Cultural determinants of fertility behaviour in Nigeria
The study examined the influence of cultural variables, namely age of entering into marriage, belief systems and sex preference on fertility behaviour among women in Nigeria. Preference theory was adopted as a framework for explaining fertility behavio…
Indigenous medicine among the Dagaaba of North-Western Ghana
This study pays attention to indigenous medicine practices and healing among the Dagaaba of North-Western Ghana. Based on Dagaaba’s theories of traditional medicine and qualitative sources of data, we confirm and further argue that the indigenous tradi…
Sociological reflections on the Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria
This paper on the Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria. Based on sociological perspectives, the main objective of the paper is to examine and measure the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on: (i) income (ii) quality of life and (iii) standard of living in Nigeri…
Between local architecture and modernity: An ethnography of the Bulsa house in Northern Ghana
This paper focuses on the concept of well-being as expressed in the context of local architecture and the changes that have taken place in this area among the Bulsa in northern Ghana. Anthropologists and sociologists have argued that the essence of loc…
Cultural linguistic interpretation of masculinity in selected Igbo burial songs and rites
Igbo burial songs and rites through the framework of cultural cognition is the focus of this study. The Igbo ethnic group of South-eastern Nigeria are religious people who believe in the mutual and peaceful co-existence of dichotomous categories such a…
Ibrahim på ramadan-tv
Profeten Ibrahim er en central figur i islam, som i disse år bliver påberåbt både som fælles stamfader til muslimer, kristne og jøder og som symbol for jihadister. Mens Ibrahims plads i Koranen og de klassiske islamiske tekster er velbeskr…
Ibrahim på ramadan-tv
Profeten Ibrahim er en central figur i islam, som i disse år bliver påberåbt både som fælles stamfader til muslimer, kristne og jøder og som symbol for jihadister. Mens Ibrahims plads i Koranen og de klassiske islamiske tekster er velbeskr…
Islamisk vinpoesi från Ibn al-Farid till Ian Dallas
Genom islams historia har sufiska poeter ofta beskrivit den överväldigande kärleken till Gud som en berusning på vin – den gudomliga kärlekens eviga vin som genomsyrar allt som existerar. Föreliggande artikel utforskar tre uttryck för sufi…
Islamic supplementary education as an extra-curricular activity
Sociological studies have shown that teenagers in larger Swedish cities from ‘poor result schools’ participate in extra-curricular activities connected to religion more frequently than others, and that involvement in such religious activities is…