Cristina Gutierrez Zuniga holds a PhD in Social Sciences and is a member of the National System of Researchers. She is a professor-researcher at the University of Guadalajara. Her research topics revolve around contemporary religiosity with special attention to the transnationalization of religious practices and the processes of diversification and religious pluralism in Mexico. She is currently working on a project on religious diversity in public schools, and collaborates in communication projects to promote religious pluralism. She recently published in the project Reconfiguring religious identities. Analysis of the National Survey on Religious Beliefs and Practices, Encreer, 2016.4 volumes, which he coordinated with Renée de la Torre and Alberto Hernández, and published by ciesas/colef (2021). She approached Peggy Levitt's work in the process of researching the transnationalization of the Aztec conchero dance, the result of which was published in the book, together with Renée de la Torre, Same steps and new paths. Transnationalization of the Aztec Conchero dance.. Zapopan: El Colegio de Jalisco/.ciesas, 2017. She is founder of the Network of Researchers of the Religious Phenomenon in Mexico (rifrem) and a member of its advisory body.

Entrevistas

Transnationalism and the Rupture With Epistemological Nationalism

Interview with
  • Peggy Levitt

  • Cristina Gutierrez Zuniga

During the conversation -which she generously insisted to be conducted in Spanish- he reflected on his contributions to different areas of research, in which several threads can be appreciated that bring us closer to his vast work to discover the consistency of the look he has developed throughout her academic and cvic trajectory.

EncArtes multimedia

Altars for the Dead: The Changing Heritage of a Mexican Tradition

https://youtu.be/prN7997stxs

  • Cristina Gutierrez Zuniga
  • Renée de la Torre Castellanos

The video is the result of an investigation into the effects, adaptations and displacements experienced by the Day of the Dead tradition in Mexico during the month of November of the first year of the covid-19 pandemic. By this time, public Day of the Dead ceremonies valued as intangible national heritage had been cancelled. We undertook an online survey to find out what would be the effects of isolation on the Day of the Dead tradition: would the tradition cease or would it shift or mutate to new uses, places and expressions? And what new creative uses of the tradition would emerge and in what new media would it be carried out? With the data obtained from 720 questionnaires and 280 photographs received from the altars of the dead, we made a video to explain the spatial displacements, the aesthetic changes and the new senses with which the practice of this ancestral Mexican tradition was renewed.

Coloquios interdisciplinarios

Comment to the colloquium "Inequalities and the re-politicization of the social in Latin America" by
  • Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz
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Where do we analytically place religion? Challenges for a transdisciplinary analysis on marginalization in Latin America

  • Cristina Gutierrez Zuniga

Keywords: studies of religion, social experience, individuation, interdiscipline, subordinate sectors.

Whis commentary questions some of Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz's approaches to the possibilities of empowering subaltern sectors to resist social marginalization through religion. The author accepts the challenge of transdisciplinary dialogue and wonders in what theoretical place religious studies are placed and how the author constructs the selection of works on which he bases his argument. The main point he proposes is that religion cannot be treated as a specific section in the analysis because it is a transversal dimension of social experience. To this end, he points out several situations that offer a kaleidoscopic vision of the role of religion.