Religião e economia: genealogias, fronteiras e limiares

Bruno Reinhardt; Réia Silvia Pereira

doi:10.15448/1984-7289.2025.1.47841

Authors

Bruno Reinhardt Federal University of Santa Catarina (Ufsc), Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3853-5927
Réia Silvia Pereira State University of Northern Fluminense (Uenf), Campos dos Goitacazes, RJ, Brazil. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2777-1975

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2025.1.47841

Keywords:

Religion, Economy, Secularity, Moral economies

Abstract

: In this presentation for the edited section “Religion and the Economy: genealogies, borders, and thresholds”, we emphasize the interdependent nature of the epistemological (representation) and political (regulation) aspects of the relationship between the religious and the economic in secularity. We critically evaluate some of the available approaches to this topic in the social sciences and humanities, and we highlight the features that give the articles in this volume a distinctive family resemblance: their refusal to assume aprioristic definitions of these fields; their engagement, via ethnographic theory, with theological-economic traces that testify to the historical entanglement of religion and economics; and their emphasis on the moral economies of various religious traditions and how these are mobilized in practice through ethical projects of individual and collective self-formation.

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Author Biographies

Bruno Reinhardt, Federal University of Santa Catarina (Ufsc), Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.

Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, United States. Master's degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Brasília (Unb), Brasília, DF, Brazil.

Réia Silvia Pereira, State University of Northern Fluminense (Uenf), Campos dos Goitacazes, RJ, Brazil.

Postdoctoral researcher at the State University of Northern Fluminense (Uenf), Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil. PhD in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Ufjf), Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil.

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