The Research Centre for Theology and Religion Studies is organising a conference on "Theogastronomic wisdom: from fragmentation to communion", on 24 May from 11.30am to 1pm.

A conferência contará com a presença de Francys Silvestrini.

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The Research Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Universidade Católica, is organising the II International and Interdisciplinary Symposium on Theology and Religious Studies from 25 to 27 January 2023.

The event takes place in online format.
 

Register by sending an email to alexvboas@ucp.pt

The Faculty of Theology is organising the IV Colloquium Sport, Ethics and Transcendence: ‘Sport, freedom and democracy’, on 20 June at 9.30am.

The Colloquium is scientifically coordinated by the Manuel Sérgio Chair of the Centre for Research in Theology and Studies of Religion (UCP-CITER) and sponsored by the Portuguese Institute of Sport and Youth (IPDJ).

Registration runs from 31 May to 16 June.

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The UCP Bookshop is hosting the debate "Natural and Artificial: what boundaries?", with the participation of Carlos Fiolhais, Physicist and Alexandre Palma, Theologian, on 26 June at 18h00.

This debate, an initiative of CITER - Centre for Research in Theology and Studies of Religion with CRC - Centre for Christian Reflection, will be moderated and commented on by Maria José Roxo, Geographer.

The recent trajectories of Religion Studies have made evident the risks that are run when the enquiry into the religious phenomenon is reduced to a single narrative and the theories of religion lose sensitivity to the "religious to be done". Religion, as a scientific object, today demands a multi-choice look, which allows the crossing of different scales and overcomes the tendencies towards its isolation or marginalization in the scientific community. In this context, the network of researchers Religion in Multiple Modernities (ReliMM) promotes its usual colloquium, facilitating the encounter between the most recent trajectories of research, which are presented and discussed here.

In the context of the public health crisis we are experiencing, the ReliMM session will take place in online mode, via the Zoom-Colibri platform. All necessary information will be sent to researchers and other interested parties who register. This registration will allow the follow-up of the invited speakers' communications by the research units joining this network.

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The Research Institute for Spirituality and Health (RISH) of the University of Bern in Switzerland, in collaboration with the Portuguese Catholic University through the Research Center for Theology and Religion Studies (CITER) of the Faculty of Theology and the Nursing Research Platform of the Center for Multidisciplinary Research in Health (CIIS) of the Institute of Health Sciences, promotes the 7th ECRSH - European Conference on Religion, Spirituality and Health on 27th and 28th May 2021, in online format.

The main theme of the conference will be: "Aging, Spirituality and Health". The conference program has been condensed into 2 days, with keynote addresses, parallel sessions, and free papers (including poster presentations).

Deadline for abstract submission and early registration is April 15th 2021.

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The Faculty of Theology and the Research Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CITER), UCP, organise the International Conference "Cosmos - Flesh - Absolute. In the centenary of Michel Henry's birth (1922-2002)", to mark the 100 years of Michel Henry's birth.  

The event takes place on 19 and 20 July and counts with the participation of researchers from Italy, Belgium, Malta, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Portugal.

Samuel Dimas, researcher at CITER, participates with a communication on "The Philosophy of Religion in Michel Henry: on the mystical and carnal experience of God in the affective and immanent manifestation of Life".

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The Research Center for Theology and Religion Studies hosts the I International Seminar on Spirituality and Health, dedicated to the theme "Narratives: from understanding to systematization", from October 20 to 22.

This seminar, promoted by the Institute of Spirituality and Health and the Spirituality and Health Research Group, intends to bring to debate analyses and discussions about narratives, spirituality, their relationship and impact on human health. 
 

Alex Villas Boas (UCP-CITER) and Silvia Caldeira (UCP-ICS) will participate on October 21st with a talk entitled "Narratives of spirituality and health in the Portuguese context".

Also during the seminar the book "Spirituality and Health: Fundamentals and Practices in a Luso-Brazilian Perspective" will be launched, in two volumes, organized by Mary Rute Esperandio (PUC PR) and by Sílvia Caldeira (UCP-ICS), both participants of the group "Common House Spirituality and Health" of the CITER project "Common House and New Ways of Inhabiting Interculturally". Other researchers of the project, such as the coordinator Alex Villas Boas, also participate in the work. 

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