Paulo G Pinto

Biographic Data

ID3660850
NAMEPaulo G Pinto
GIVEN NAMESPaulo G
FAMILY NAMEPinto
SIGNATUREPINTO P G
AFFILIATIONSFluminense Federal University in Niterói, Brazil
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Uncertain futures

    Paulo Gabriel Hilu Da Rocha Pinto, Paulo G PintoARTICLEHistory and Anthropology2024Cited by: 2References: 10

    This article analyzes how two Sufi communities in Aleppo which were deeply impacted by revolution and war in Syria were able to recreate themselves in new contexts, producing new temporalities and orientations towards the future in this process. The members of the Zawiya al-Hilaliyya used their ritual performances to recreate continuity between past and present, and to restore their capacity to anticipate to the future. The members of the Zawiya …

  • L'islam au Brésil

    Open AccessAmanda S A Dias, Paulo Gabriel Hilu Da Rocha Pinto et al.ARTICLEBrésil(s2018References: 4

    De nombreuses études se consacrent aux courants religieux islamiques dans les pays à majorité musulmane et dans les pays européens où la présence musulmane est significative, ainsi qu’aux États-Unis. Très peu, à ce jour, ont examiné leur développement en Amérique du Sud. Même lorsque ces travaux se penchent sur le développement de « l’islam mondialisé » (Roy 2002), il est rare qu’ils incluent les pays sud-américains. Ce dossier vise à combler cet…

  • Mystical metaphors

    Paulo Gabriel Hilu Da Rocha Pinto, Paulo G PintoARTICLECulture and Religion2017Cited by: 4References: 15

    This paper focuses on the role of ritual symbols in the process of constitution of moral selves in the context of Sufi religious practices of the zawiya al-Badinjkiyya in pre-civil war Aleppo, Syria. The experiences elicited in the dhikr aim to create an emotional and embodied connection to the transcendent realm of the divine reality and truth, constituting a performative arena where the individual insertion in the Sufi community is constantly a…

  • Mystical bodies/unruly bodies

    Open AccessPaulo Gabriel Hilu Da Rocha Pinto, Paulo G PintoARTICLESocial Compass2016Cited by: 4References: 8

    Religious experience can be a tool for the constitution of social subjects, the construction of symbolic meanings and values, as well as for shaping the subjectivity and corporality of the faithful. An ethnographic account and analysis of the Sufi ritual, the darb al-shish, as it was performed in the zawiya (Sufi lodge) of shaykh Mahmud in Afrin, Syria, shows how religious experience allows the embodiment of capacities and dispositions that are l…

  • Crescent over Another Horizon

    Ellen Bal, Karoline P Cook et al.EDITORBOOKCrescent over Another Horizon2015

  • Knowledge and Miracles

    Paulo Gabriel Hilu Da Rocha Pinto, Paulo G PintoCHAPTERAnthropology of Religious Charisma2014

  • Knowledge and Miracles

    Open AccessPaulo Gabriel Hilu Da Rocha Pinto, Paulo G PintoCHAPTERAnthropology of Religious Charisma2013

    Charisma is an important feature of religious authority in Syrian Islam, since Sunni religiosity is mostly lived as a collective phenomenon in small communities organized around a charismatic religious leader, locally referred as shaykh or murshid (master). The fact that Syria never had a religious institution that could centralize Sunni Islam under its authority, such as Al -Azhar in Egypt, allowed local arrangements of religious power and prest…

  • Ethnographies of Islam

    KathrynVE Spellman-Poots, Thomas Pierret et al.BOOKExploring Muslim Contexts2012

    Published in Association with the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations Explores the impact of the ethnographic method on the representation of Islam in anthropology GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748689842','ISBN:9780748645503','ISBN:9780748645510','ISBN:9780748654796']); This comparative approach to the various uses of the ethnographic method in research about Islam in anthropology and other social sciences is particularly re…

  • Exploring Muslim Contexts

    Badouin Dupret, Kathryn Spellman-Poots et al.BOOKExploring Muslim Contexts2012

  • The Anthropologist and the Initiated

    Open AccessPaulo Gabriel Hilu Da Rocha Pinto, Paulo G PintoARTICLESocial Compass2010

    The construction of the religious self of the members of the Sufi communities in Aleppo, Syria, is achieved through the embodiment of principles of the Sufi tradition as a form of corporality that the author calls the mystical body. This corporality is shaped and enacted in the mystical experiences that the Sufis have during the rituals and religious practices linked to their initiation into the mystical path of Sufism. Thus, the author aims at r…

  • Entries

    Open AccessHarry Liebersohn, Martin Klimke et al.CHAPTERPalgrave Dictionary of…2009

  • The Limits of the Public

    Paulo Gabriel Hilu Da Rocha Pinto, Paulo G PintoCHAPTERPublic Islam and the Common Good2004