LARA = CONCEPTIONS OF DIVINITY IN AFRICAN AND AFRO-BRAZILIAN RELIGIONS
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Feb 19, 2026, 8:49:59 AM (2 days ago) Feb 19
to Lista acadêmica brasileira dos profissionais e estudantes da área de LOGICA
February 19, 2026, 4 pm CET
Speakers: Bettina Schmidt (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK), Emmanuel Ofuasia (University of Pretoria, South Africa) and Steven Engler (Mount Royal University, Canada) Chair: José Eduardo Porcher (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
This roundtable will focus on conceptions of divinity in African traditional religions and Afro-Brazilian traditions through a transatlantic dialogue, emphasizing relational, immanent, and contextually embedded understandings of the divine. It addresses key questions: How do these traditions conceptualize the divine and its relation to nature, humanity, and spiritual hierarchies? What properties are attributed to divine beings, and how do relationality and entitology shape belief and practice? To what extent is divinity understood as personal, and how do these systems negotiate unity and multiplicity in the divine?
This session is one of four virtual roundtables on the concept of divinity in underrepresented religious traditions, which are taking place in 2025–2026. It is part of the project Concepts of God and the Variety of Theisms in Indian Traditions. This particular roundtable is also a collaboration with the project Spiritual Realities, Relationality, and Flourishing: Brazilian Contributions to Philosophy of Religion.
Speakers: Bettina Schmidt (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK), Emmanuel Ofuasia (University of Pretoria, South Africa) and Steven Engler (Mount Royal University, Canada) Chair: José Eduardo Porcher (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
This roundtable will focus on conceptions of divinity in African traditional religions and Afro-Brazilian traditions through a transatlantic dialogue, emphasizing relational, immanent, and contextually embedded understandings of the divine. It addresses key questions: How do these traditions conceptualize the divine and its relation to nature, humanity, and spiritual hierarchies? What properties are attributed to divine beings, and how do relationality and entitology shape belief and practice? To what extent is divinity understood as personal, and how do these systems negotiate unity and multiplicity in the divine?
This session is one of four virtual roundtables on the concept of divinity in underrepresented religious traditions, which are taking place in 2025–2026. It is part of the project Concepts of God and the Variety of Theisms in Indian Traditions. This particular roundtable is also a collaboration with the project Spiritual Realities, Relationality, and Flourishing: Brazilian Contributions to Philosophy of Religion.
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