The 1st International Colloquium on Gesture and Belief aims to be a meeting that promotes international and interdisciplinary debate between researchers working in the field of Religion Studies.

In recent decades, new currents have explored religious expression as a material chain of relationships and encounters between bodies, objects and other sensory stimuli, surpassing the previous approach that focused mainly on spirituality. In this sense, and under the premise of “routes, transfers and intermediality”, this colloquium will promote the discussion of the following themes: sensory stimuli and religious experience; pilgrimages, pilgrimages and processions; the dissemination of images, practices and cults; books and the circulation of devotional readings.

See the program at www.gestureandbelief.weebly.com

ORGANIZATION

Scientific Committee:

Celso dos Santos, Prof. of the Department of Heritage Sciences and Techniques (FLUP)

Helena Oswald, Professor at the Department of History and Political and International Studies (FLUP), Researcher at CITCEM/UP

Helena Vilaça, Prof. of the Department of Sociology (FLUP), Researcher at the Institute of Sociology//UP

Luís Fardilha, Prof. of the Department of Portuguese Studies and Romance Studies (FLUP), Coordinator of the Sociabilities and Religious Practices Group at CITCEM/UP

Nuno Resende, Prof. of the Department of Heritage Sciences and Techniques (FLUP), Researcher at CITCEM/UP

Zulmira Santos, Professor in the Department of Portuguese Studies and Romance Studies (FLUP), Researcher at CITCEM/UP

Executive Committee:

Diana Pereira, PhD student in Art History (FLUP/FCT), Researcher at CITCEM/UP

Inês Afonso Lopes, PhD in Art History (FLUP/EHESS/FCT), Researcher at CITCEM/UP

Rosa María Sánchez, PhD student in Literary, Cultural and Interartistic Studies (FLUP/FCT), Researcher at CITCEM/UP