Marcelo Camurça is an anthropologist, full professor of the Department of Religious Sciences and of the Graduate Program in Religious Sciences at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora/Brazil. He is a researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (cnpq) of Brazil. He was a visiting professor at the State University of Ceará (2018) and at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2019-2022). He is a member of the Laboratory of Anthropology of Religions (Unicamp). He is an associate member abroad of the Laboratoire Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités (gsrl) of the École Pratique des Hautes Études (ephe) and of the cnrs. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Social Compass of the Société Internationale de Sociologie des Religions/International Society for the Sociology of Religion (sisr/issr). He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Social Scientists of Religions of Mercosur (acsrm) from 2005 to 2009 and from 2013 to 2014. He was a member of the Evaluation Commission of the Theology and Religious Sciences area of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level Personnel (capes), agency of the Ministry of Education/Brazil, in 2004-2009 and 2016-2017. Publications: Social sciences and religious sciences: controversies and interlocutions.. São Paulo: Paulinas, 2008; Spiritism and the new age: interpellations to the historical Christianity. Aparecida: Santuário, 2014; Spiritism in seven lessons. Petrópolis: Vozes, 2022; and co-authored with Brenda Carranza and Cecília Mariz. New Catholic communities: in search of a postmodern space. Aparecida: Ideias & Letras, 2009.