Rodrigo Toniol He is a doctor in social anthropology. He was a visiting researcher at the Global Health Institute of the ucsd, United States, and at CIAS in Mexico. He did postdoctoral studies at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Unicamp and president of the Association of Social Scientists of the Religion of Mercosur (2018-2020). Since 2013 he is editor of the newspaper Debates do NER. He has been editor and author for the Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions (Springer). Has published On the nature trail (N. Science Publishers, 2015) and From spirit to health (Liberar, 2018), as well as articles in Conservatives, Fascisms and Fundamentalisms (Unicamp, 2018) and EAmong the tropics: New Era studies dialogues between Mexico and Brazil (Casa Chata, 2018).

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The Religious and/or Spiritual Matrices of the Conspiracy Theories in Times of COVID-19

  • Enriqueta Lerma
  • Hugo H. Rabbia
  • Mar Griera
  • Rodrigo Toniol

  • moderator María Eugenia Patiño
  • moderator Olga Odgers

The covid-19 pandemic and the confinement it brought with it led the whole world to seek new ways of organizing daily life. They also imposed the need to rethink the way we relate to nature and the meaning of our individual, social and species existence.

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Traditionalisms, fundamentalisms, fascisms? The advance of conservatism in Latin America

  • Catalina Romero
  • Fabio Lozano
  • Joanildo Burity
  • Miguel Angel Mansilla
  • Renée de la Torre
  • Rodrigo Toniol

  • moderator Veronica Giménez Béliveau

The consolidation of conservative projects supported by political and religious actors in Latin America is not a novelty: the continent has seen advances and crises of popular governments, bloody dictatorships, violent speeches and rights expansion processes that are carried out with different intensity and decoupled temporalities in different countries. The ways of naming this trend are the subject of discussion in this section, since the naming itself is a problem: they are expressions made up of diverse sectors socially and even politically, claiming transformations of varying thickness as the context allows them. Based on these ideas, we organized our discussion around three questions, which the authors answered based on the experience of each country.