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Fields of Activity:
Researcher on the DFG project “Religious Identity Politics of the Pentecostal Movement ” (s. research projects below).
Doctoral Dissertation on religious diversification in Mexico-city (s. research projects below).
Theory of religion.
Identity theory.
Research Interests:
Religion and social inequality, religious identity-politics, religion and space, processes of religious diversification, religion and politics in Latin America, Indigenous Theology, Liberation Theology, Pentecostalism.
Regional focus:
Latin America, specially Central America and Mexico.
Since 2008: Doctoral student at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS), University of Bielefeld
2008-2011: Scholarship holder of the Mexican National Council for Science and Technology (CONACyT)
2008-2009: Fellow in the research group “E Pluribus Unum?” at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF), Bielefeld
2005-2007: Master in Cultural studies with a focus on religion, University of Bayreuth
1995-1999: Graduate degree in Cultural anthropology, College for Historical and Anthropological Studies, San Luis Potosí, México)
• Faith, Identity and Community in the Mega-city: religious diversity under conditions of relative social homogeneity in the ward 'el Ajusco', Mexico-city.
Abstract:
Based on an empirical case study of the city quarter 'el Ajusco' in Mexico-city, this research project maps religious diversity in a delimited urban space where very different religious actors are marked by the common traits of marginal urbanity, urban popular culture, and relative socio-structural homogeneity. The central objective of the research project is to grasp the conditions of possibility under which such a religious diversity emerges despite the above mentioned traits, commonly regarded as explanatory factors when religious groups are analyzed separately. Further, in order to remap religious diversity, the project aims to describe structures of religiosity transversal to the different collective actors, beyond strong assumptions on the correspondence between 'believing' and 'belonging', i.e. between identity and institutional or group affiliation. This goal is achieved through the analysis of religious identities and strategies relying on the method of habitus analysis.
• Religious Identity Politics of the Pentecostal Movement: Social and Religious Differentiation, and Transnational Networks at the Example of Guatemala and Nicaragua – a Comparison in the Synchronous Dimension
