https://www.diasporanthro.com/research daily 0.75 2024-04-30 https://www.diasporanthro.com/research/racial-order-religious-racism monthly 0.5 2024-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6556452c66fe8a3be6c89b1c/1050f86a-3c3d-4bd2-8c84-abb6d908d188/douglas-ribeiro-Apo9gLNVTxY-unsplash.jpg Research - Pursuing Racial Order and Social Progress: Violence, Afrophobia and “Religious Racism” in Brazil - Abstract This article explores “religious racism,” or discrimination against devotees of African-derived religions in Brazil, as a broader pattern of structural racism rooted in racialized religious alterity, Afrophobia, and the epistemic divide between religion and nonreligion. The term religious racism has been proposed by some devotees and anti-racist activists to emphasize that Afro-Brazilian religions are uniquely targeted in ways other non-Christian religions are not. Unlike religious intolerance, the term religious racism explicitly connects discrimination against Afro-Brazilian religions to colonization, color or racial hierarchy, and anti-Black prejudice. This article clarifies the ideological groundings of religious racism that encourage Neo-Pentecostal extremists to pursue “order and progress,” as the national motto suggests, through physical violence. https://www.diasporanthro.com/research/faith-full-sensuous-habitus monthly 0.5 2024-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6556452c66fe8a3be6c89b1c/1e294ce3-5250-4462-b10e-1fc0e28a0eef/pedro-lima-HtwsbbClBOs-unsplash.jpg Research - Faith Full: Sensuous Habitus, Everyday Affect, and Divergent Diaspora in the UCKG This chapter explores the affective intersection of religious and racial identity and experience through an ethnographic account of black Neo-Pentecostals. The Brazilian-founded Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) curates a regimented sensuous experience and corresponding dispositions to facilitate filling devotees’ bodies with the Holy Spirit. This sensuous habitus is meant to inform how adherents feel and experience religious identity both inside and outside of the church, whereby being faithful equates to being faith-filled. The UCKG’s ideologically informed sensuous habitus intersects with other aspects of everyday affect, in particular racial identity. Tracing the relationship between race and faith through the assertion by members that they are “black but” baptized in the Holy Spirit, this chapter argues that Neo-Pentecostals reject prevailing notions of blackness, advancing a divergent black identity bonded by their collective decision to be proselytized through the Holy Spirit https://www.diasporanthro.com/research/looking-for-life-and-asylum monthly 0.5 2024-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6556452c66fe8a3be6c89b1c/c35feb40-20ce-4334-86ef-cd19012dc9c6/barbara-zandoval-hJfFNYwG0NU-unsplash.jpg Research - Looking for Life and Asylum - Since the 2010 earthquake, thousands of Haitians have endured perilous journeys across the Americas only to face new kinds of disasters. https://www.diasporanthro.com/ethnographic-vibes daily 0.75 2026-03-23 https://www.diasporanthro.com/ethnographic-vibes/culturesofilliberalism monthly 0.5 2026-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6556452c66fe8a3be6c89b1c/1774293999107-4Y4NZ2PPQJ6ZQRYGR78E/unsplash-image-inSRFe_CpD4.jpg Ethnographic Vibes - Cultures of Illiberalism Julianna, Lily, Anandi, Adam https://www.diasporanthro.com/ethnographic-vibes/agencyindia monthly 0.5 2026-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6556452c66fe8a3be6c89b1c/c2302ac7-7388-47ff-9a59-9eb96fd7a57e/youssef-naddam-iJ2IG8ckCpA-unsplash.jpg Ethnographic Vibes - Agency in Neoliberal India Kishi, Louisiana, Sophie, Sophia https://www.diasporanthro.com/ethnographic-vibes/bridginghunger monthly 0.5 2026-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6556452c66fe8a3be6c89b1c/1773947528536-YJO3A467NPR1ILLY53EA/unsplash-image-7a_PHX91su8.jpg Ethnographic Vibes - Bridging Hunger in the Philippines Ash, Avery, Madison, Mary https://www.diasporanthro.com/ethnographic-vibes/loveunderwatch monthly 0.5 2026-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6556452c66fe8a3be6c89b1c/57537a18-5c19-4fc7-8464-97d13a163bbb/Whites-Only-Park-Bench.jpg Ethnographic Vibes - Love Under Watch Audrey, Morgan, Elizabeth, Raka https://www.diasporanthro.com/ethnographic-vibes/queernessinoutplace monthly 0.5 2026-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6556452c66fe8a3be6c89b1c/1745635030027-UHO2N7BJXIANJOMO6FNW/unsplash-image-7eCcYQ-zOpc.jpg Ethnographic Vibes - Queerness In and Out of Place Jackson, Jasper, Samantha https://www.diasporanthro.com/ethnographic-vibes/oppressionwillnot monthly 0.5 2025-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6556452c66fe8a3be6c89b1c/1742933944745-I5XC32OVIP2V8JXWBLPK/unsplash-image-RDhjey9QjGM.jpg Ethnographic Vibes - Oppression Will Not Overtake Us Abraham, Djeneba, Eleanor https://www.diasporanthro.com/ethnographic-vibes/challengingwesternfeminism monthly 0.5 2025-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6556452c66fe8a3be6c89b1c/1742930475319-6NQBDZSZL7F6JCS7JW93/unsplash-image-h7wEYf-LUCk.jpg Ethnographic Vibes - Challenging Western Feminism - Aaron, Aiden, Brooke and Josselyn https://www.diasporanthro.com/ethnographic-vibes/brazilian-mothers-and-structural-violence-mh4ds monthly 0.5 2025-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6556452c66fe8a3be6c89b1c/6cd47e72-3df9-4be4-81c1-5e5028ae59c0/thiago-japyassu-pZetlN0dtoM-unsplash.jpg Ethnographic Vibes - Brazilian Mothers and Structural Violence - Mlondi, Owen, and Simon https://www.diasporanthro.com/ethnographic-vibes/tasteofethnographicthings monthly 0.5 2025-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6556452c66fe8a3be6c89b1c/28a9e108-6fbd-4cf5-ab9c-e250c2d34811/agnieszka-stankiewicz-obMdrL5pFWI-unsplash.jpg Ethnographic Vibes - Taste of Ethnographic Things - Aniekan, Ben, Jiarui, Nina https://www.diasporanthro.com/ethnographic-vibes/food-community-and-resilience monthly 0.5 2025-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6556452c66fe8a3be6c89b1c/1739201550919-3UDGYXQHJNR7BRSNZ5D6/unsplash-image-Y1TAEMoWUb4.jpg Ethnographic Vibes - Food, Community, and Resilience Erin, Cooper, Brendan https://www.diasporanthro.com/ethnographic-vibes/the-race-religion-constellation monthly 0.5 2025-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6556452c66fe8a3be6c89b1c/1739201055189-LEF1AN32109LZBESM6K9/unsplash-image-hmt5q80CZag.jpg Ethnographic Vibes - The Race-Religion Constellation Eli, Elaine, and Isa https://www.diasporanthro.com/ethnographic-vibes/linguistic-gatekeeping-and-student-resistance monthly 0.5 2024-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6556452c66fe8a3be6c89b1c/bd0a746a-b6e7-45d5-9315-7b122d2d2f8a/redd-f-9o8YdYGTT64-unsplash.jpg Ethnographic Vibes - Linguistic Gatekeeping and Student Resistance - Ashley, Bella, Isaias, Shelby Reading: Wiel, Keisha. (2023). “Linguistic Bias or a Chance to Get Ahead: Linguistic Repertoires in Aruban and Curaçaoan Schools” in Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean, ed. Melanie A. Medeiros and Jennifer R. Guzman (1st ed.) 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