Lived Religion in Latin America Today

Wednesday, February 9, 2022
4:30 p.m., Rehm Library*

Gustavo Morello, S.J.

Gustavo Morello, S.J., associate professor of sociology at Boston College, reports on an extensive three-year study of religion as practiced by Latin Americans in their daily lives. By choosing not to focus strictly on attendance, adherence and affiliation, his research team noted how religious influences have been pluralized, and religious practices are diverse and occur everywhere. There are no 鈥渆xclusive鈥 secular or religious spaces, objects or times, and religious practices are not circumscribed to 鈥渢he religious.鈥

His talk is one of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity and part of the McFarland Center鈥檚 global initiative on .

*In-person attendance is limited to the 海角社区 campus community. Public access is via the livestream video above.