"Taking God public: Pentecostalism and the making of a semiotic community"

Alana Sá Leitão is a PhD in Anthropology working at the intersection of religion, politics, and the public sphere. She holds a Faculty of Arts and Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, where her project aims to develop a framework for the ethnographic, methodological and analytical comparison of Pentecostal activities in different parts of the world. In this talk, she is celebrating the end of her postdoctoral period by discussing how one Pentecostal church becomes a social presence in the public sphere, forming a community that goes beyond the church's boundaries.

Respondents

Kevin Lewis O'Neill, Department for the Study of Religion, UTSG

Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie, Department of Anthropology, UTSC

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