Mario I Aguilar
Biographic Data
| ID | 616806 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mario I Aguilar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mario I |
| FAMILY NAME | Aguilar |
| SIGNATURE | AGUILAR M I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2035-5947 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Burying Pope Francis: The Vatican Tombs, Topology and Peripheral Ataraxia
This paper (number 7) in the research project “Burying the Dead” follows the introductory comments and typology of Aguilar’s previous papers, but moves the material context of burial to Rome and to the latest papal burial, that of Pope Francis in 2025. Pope Francis, Argentine by birth and a Jesuit, started his pontificate on 13 March 2013 and died on 21 April 2025, Easter Monday, at 7.35 am at the Vatican. He was 88 years old and had served as Po…
Mass Graves and the Unburied in Rwanda: Post-Rwanda Genocide, Topology and Ataraxia
This paper (number 6) in the research project “Burying the Dead” follows the introductory comments and typology of previous papers (Aguilar, 2024a, 2024b, 2025a, 2025b, 2025c) but moves the material context of mass graves related to victims and killings during the 1994 Rwanda genocide. state sanctioned mass graves throughout the country. As in previous topologies, this paper outlines the characteristics of special continuity and change on locatio…
Topologies of the Dead and the 2016 Peace Accord in Colombia: Mass Graves, Forensic Inhumations, and Illegal Burials
Unexpected Topologies and Burials in Chile: The Consumption of the Dead, the Animitas, and Illegal Burials in the Andes
Topologies of the Tombs of the Señor de Sipán, Peru: Pope Leo XIV and Cultural Preservation
Liberation Theology as Political Theory: Marxist Sociology and Systemic Corruption in José Míguez Bonino and Camila Vergara
This paper examines the relation between the work of liberation theology, particularly of the Argentinean José Míguez Bonino and the political theoretical analysis of Chilean Camila Vergara, with her analysis and activism of populism as plebeian politics
Burying the Dead and Religious Diversification in 21 st Century Chile: Christianity and Modernity in a Contested Topology
This paper (number 2) in the research project “Burying the Dead” follows the introductory comments and typology of a previous paper (Aguilar, 2024) but moves the material context of cemeteries to Chile assuming a diverse context. In India and Chile, indigenous centralised civilisations existed well before the arrival of European colonisers, and Chile became the second site within globality in which the topology of the dead is explored. Research v…
Commonwealth Inter-Religious Graves: Rethinking the Epistemology of the Dead in India
This research paper is part of the research project on “Burying the Dead” of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics (CSRP) of the University of St. Andrews. It outlines the theoretical and historical basis for this project while outlining sites of burial and memory in India. The paper outlines sites of burial and remembrance in the Indian Commonwealth Cemeteries and includes Indians from British India who joined the British Armed Force…
Religion, Torture and the Liberation of God
If God can be used by the powerful to justify violence in the name of order, he can also be used by the weak to illuminate the position of the victims of political conflict. Religion, Torture and the Liberation of God explores the theological possibilities of a God who is a prisoner and a victim of torture. The book relocates God to the horrors of the military abuse of human rights in Chile and the systematic rape of women in the Democratic Repub…
Religion, Politics and Liberation: A Dialogue between Gustavo Gutiérrez, the 14th Dalai Lama and Gianni Vattimo
This paper explores the contributions to scholarship and to the globalized imagination concerning religion and politics by the Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez, the 14th Dalai Lama and the Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo. Their common theme of "liberation," personal and political through a common humanity, love and compassion, with or without God, deserves a very detailed examination. The three of them have made an enormous contribution t…
The Stroessner Regime and Indigenous Resistance in Paraguay - by René D. Harder Horst
Emic and etic voices in a Spanish reality
By Joan Frigolé. Barcelona: Muchnik Editores. 1995. 138 pp. ISBN 84 7669 251 X. . By Begoña Enguix Grau. Valencia: Edicions Alfons el Magnanim. 1996. 272 pp. ISBN 84 7822 170 0
Public Theology from the Periphery: Victims and Theologians
This article explores contemporary understandings of public theology in relation to other types of non-European theologies that could be labelled public; for example, the theologies that come under the umbrella of Latin American theologies or liberation theologies. The first part of this article explores the possibilities of public theologies within the centre/periphery axis, while the second part argues for a relocation of public theologies towa…
Sacred Rules and Secular Politics: Religion and Rules
This article explores the relationship between rules and politics in the intersection of the secular and the sacred. When identity in Europe was firmly fixed to Christianity, the rules governing the sacred and secular neatly meshed. With the onset of modernity, however, a cleavage arose between those two sets of rules, leading to theoretical and political conflict and confusion. Understanding the role of rules within modern religious traditions r…
Anthropology and Biblical Studies: Avenues of Approach
State Crises, Globalisation and National Movements in North-East Africa: The Horn's Dilemma
This book demonstrates that the crises of the Horn states stem from their political behaviour and structural forces.
Methodological Reflections
Pastoralists under Pressure? Fulbe Societies Confronting Change in West Africa
Victor Azarya, Anneke Breedveld, Mirjam de Bruijn, and Han Van Dijk (eds) Pastoralists Under Pressure? Fulbe societies confronting change in West Africa. Leiden, Boston, and Köln: Brill, 1999, 454pp., €57.20, ISBN 90 04 11364 9 (hard covers). - Volume 73 Issue 3
The Disappeared and the Mesa de Diálogo in Chile 1999-2001: Searching for Those Who Never Grew Old
This paper describes steps taken in order to deal with information regarding human rights abuses in Chile during the Pinochet regime, focusing on the most recent initiative, the Mesa de Diálogo (1999-2001) whose final report was given to president Lagos in January 2001. Two national initiatives, i.e. the establishment and reports of the Comisión de Verdad y Reconciliación (1991) and the following-up of this inquiry by the Corporación Nacional de …
The Vicaría de la Solidaridad and the Pinochet Regime, 1976-1980: Religion and Politics in 20 th Century Chile
Iberoamericana – Revista Nórdica de Estudios de Latinoamérica y el Caribe, es una revista académica arbitrada, interdisciplinaria y bilingüe. Es administrada por el Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad de Estocolmo en colaboración con otras universidades nórdicas con el objetivo de presentar investigación de alta calidad sobre América Latina.La revista publica artículos originales enfocados en temas relacionados con las cienci…
The Theology of Inculturation and the Liturgical Writings of F. Kabasele Lumbula
Cet article expose la problematique de la theologie de l'inculturation, representee ici avant-tout par la theologie africaine de F. Kabasale Lumbala. Se detournant de la tentation d'une revendication politique, Kabasale Lumbala, dan sa theologie africaine, met l'accent sur la liturgie et les sacrements, sur la place accordee au corps, et sur la personne du Christ
Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse: The Search for Freedom and Democracy
Asafa Jalata (ed.), Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse: the search for freedom and democracy. Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea Press1998, 313 pp., US24.95, ISBN 1 56902 066 3 (paperback). - Volume 71 Issue 2
Survival on Meagre Resources: Hadendowa Pastoralism in the Red Sea Hills
Eva Evers Rosander (ed.), Transforming Female Identities: women's organisational forms in West Africa. Seminar Proceedings 31. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1997, 243 pp., £18.95, ISBN 91 7106 403 6. - Volume 71 Issue 3
The Politics of Age and Gerontocracy in Africa: Ethnographies of the past and Memories of the Present
Mario I. Aguilar (ed.), The Politics of Age and Gerontocracy in Africa: ethnographies of the past and memories of the present. Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press, 1998, 306 pp., £14.99, ISBN 0 86543 598 7 paperback. - Volume 71 Issue 3
The Gabra: Camel Nomads of Northern Kenya
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Parables and Fables: Exegesis, Textuality and Politics in Central Africa
This book confronts the philosophical problems of otherness and identity through readings of the parables and fables of a colonized people, the Luba of Zaire. V.Y. Mudimbe poses two overarching questions: how can one think about and comment upon alterity without essentializing its features? Is it possible to speak and write about an African tradition or its contemporary practice without taking into account the authority of the colonial library th…
African conversion from a world religion: Religious diversification by the Waso Boorana in Kenya
The Boorana of the Waso area of north-eastern Kenya settled there in the 1930s. Upon the settling of colonial administrative boundaries in 1934 they became isolated from the rest of the Boorana in northern Kenya and Ethiopia. Thereafter a process of 'somalisation' took place through which they replaced their Oromo ritual moments with Islamic practices. By the 1950s most of the Waso Boorana had converted to Islam, and since then have been consider…
The Poetics and Politics of Tuareg Aging: Life Course and Personal Destiny in Niger
In this unique ethnographical study of the people of the Kel Ewey confederation of Tuareg, Rasmussen explores concepts of age and aging in an African culture. A seminomadic community in northern Niger, the Tuareg understand aging in a way that is distinctly nonlinear - a dimension of life they measure outside of a chronological time frame. Instead, rituals related to marriage, childbirth, and death mark the process of aging. In this way the life …
Pastoralists under Pressure? Fulbe Societies Confronting Change in West Africa
Victor Azarya, Anneke Breedveld, Mirjam de Bruijn, and Han Van Dijk (eds) Pastoralists Under Pressure? Fulbe societies confronting change in West Africa. Leiden, Boston, and Köln: Brill, 1999, 454pp., €57.20, ISBN 90 04 11364 9 (hard covers). - Volume 73 Issue 3
The Gabra: Camel Nomads of Northern Kenya
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Recreating a religious past in a Muslim setting: Sacrificing' coffee-beans among the Waso Boorana of Garba Tulla, Kenya
The Buna Qalla ceremony is a central ritual practice of the Oromo peoples of East Africa. In the case of the Muslim Waso Boorana the ritual has been transferred to a domestic sphere of local settlements. It is in that context that the ritual can be related to public statements of Boorana identity, and the social importance of women; the ritual being performed so as to create communal ties and to instruct younger generations on the Waso Boorana re…
Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse: The Search for Freedom and Democracy
Asafa Jalata (ed.), Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse: the search for freedom and democracy. Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea Press1998, 313 pp., US24.95, ISBN 1 56902 066 3 (paperback). - Volume 71 Issue 2
Survival on Meagre Resources: Hadendowa Pastoralism in the Red Sea Hills
Eva Evers Rosander (ed.), Transforming Female Identities: women's organisational forms in West Africa. Seminar Proceedings 31. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1997, 243 pp., £18.95, ISBN 91 7106 403 6. - Volume 71 Issue 3
The Politics of Age and Gerontocracy in Africa: Ethnographies of the past and Memories of the Present
Mario I. Aguilar (ed.), The Politics of Age and Gerontocracy in Africa: ethnographies of the past and memories of the present. Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press, 1998, 306 pp., £14.99, ISBN 0 86543 598 7 paperback. - Volume 71 Issue 3
A River of Blessings: Essays in Honor of Paul Baxter
David Brokensha (ed.), A River of Blessings: essays in honor of Paul Baxter. Foreign and Comparative Studies, African series, 44, Syracuse NY: Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 1994, 318 pp., $29.50, 318 pp., ISBN 0 915984 69 5. - Volume 70 Issue 2
Topologies of the Dead and the 2016 Peace Accord in Colombia: Mass Graves, Forensic Inhumations, and Illegal Burials
Writing Biographies of Boorana: Social Histories at The Time of Kenya's Independence
In June 1963 Daudi Dabaso Wawera, who at that time was District Commissioner of Isiolo, and Chief Hajji Galma Diida were killed in a Somali ambush near Mado Gashi, fifty kilometers from Garba Tulla, in the area surrounding the Waso Nyiro river in Eastern Kenya. While both of them were killed, their companions and escorts were not touched, in an ambush that was premeditated and calculated. It was a political assassination, insignificant for the pr…
Unexpected Topologies and Burials in Chile: The Consumption of the Dead, the Animitas, and Illegal Burials in the Andes
The Disappeared and the Mesa de Diálogo in Chile 1999-2001: Searching for Those Who Never Grew Old
This paper describes steps taken in order to deal with information regarding human rights abuses in Chile during the Pinochet regime, focusing on the most recent initiative, the Mesa de Diálogo (1999-2001) whose final report was given to president Lagos in January 2001. Two national initiatives, i.e. the establishment and reports of the Comisión de Verdad y Reconciliación (1991) and the following-up of this inquiry by the Corporación Nacional de …
Religion as culture or culture as religion? The status quaestionis of ritual and performance
This paper examines some of the current ideas and methods that have problematised the study of religion within a globalised community. Religion and culture cannot be considered bounded entities, to be described as unchangeable. However, their constant process of change is not something new. It becomes new due to writing patterns and contemporary ideas on the relevance of religion or the creativity of culture. By analysing some discussions on poss…
The Eagle as Messenger, Pilgrim and Voice: Divinatory Processes among the Waso Boorana of Kenya
La figure de l'aigle est importante pour comprendre les pratiques religieuses des Waso Boorana du Kenya. D'autre part, l'aigle a permis la construction d'un systeme religieux et theologique. Le culte de l'ayyaana, c'est-a-dire de l'arrivee de l'aigle, associe a des pratiques islamiques, temoigne d'un interet pour la valeur de paix. Dans le systeme religieux actuel des Waso Boorana, le Dieu de l'islam, le Dieu chretien et le Dieu Oromo sont equiva…
Waso Boorana Women's Theology: A Silent Journey
Divination, Theology and Healing in an African Context
The attachment to the ancestral worship among Africans combines the respect for the dead who are now near the Great One, and the power they have after death over earthly problems. They have control over a lot of earthly elements, and at the same time they are now able to fight the evil spirits which send evil spells on the living. I have heard of a Lenje prayer to the ancestors, which runs as follows: 'You our ancestors who were so good while you…
Parables and Fables: Exegesis, Textuality and Politics in Central Africa
This book confronts the philosophical problems of otherness and identity through readings of the parables and fables of a colonized people, the Luba of Zaire. V.Y. Mudimbe poses two overarching questions: how can one think about and comment upon alterity without essentializing its features? Is it possible to speak and write about an African tradition or its contemporary practice without taking into account the authority of the colonial library th…
African conversion from a world religion: Religious diversification by the Waso Boorana in Kenya
The Boorana of the Waso area of north-eastern Kenya settled there in the 1930s. Upon the settling of colonial administrative boundaries in 1934 they became isolated from the rest of the Boorana in northern Kenya and Ethiopia. Thereafter a process of 'somalisation' took place through which they replaced their Oromo ritual moments with Islamic practices. By the 1950s most of the Waso Boorana had converted to Islam, and since then have been consider…
Recreating a religious past in a Muslim setting: Sacrificing' coffee-beans among the Waso Boorana of Garba Tulla, Kenya
The Buna Qalla ceremony is a central ritual practice of the Oromo peoples of East Africa. In the case of the Muslim Waso Boorana the ritual has been transferred to a domestic sphere of local settlements. It is in that context that the ritual can be related to public statements of Boorana identity, and the social importance of women; the ritual being performed so as to create communal ties and to instruct younger generations on the Waso Boorana re…
Writing Biographies of Boorana: Social Histories at The Time of Kenya's Independence
In June 1963 Daudi Dabaso Wawera, who at that time was District Commissioner of Isiolo, and Chief Hajji Galma Diida were killed in a Somali ambush near Mado Gashi, fifty kilometers from Garba Tulla, in the area surrounding the Waso Nyiro river in Eastern Kenya. While both of them were killed, their companions and escorts were not touched, in an ambush that was premeditated and calculated. It was a political assassination, insignificant for the pr…
The Eagle as Messenger, Pilgrim and Voice: Divinatory Processes among the Waso Boorana of Kenya
La figure de l'aigle est importante pour comprendre les pratiques religieuses des Waso Boorana du Kenya. D'autre part, l'aigle a permis la construction d'un systeme religieux et theologique. Le culte de l'ayyaana, c'est-a-dire de l'arrivee de l'aigle, associe a des pratiques islamiques, temoigne d'un interet pour la valeur de paix. Dans le systeme religieux actuel des Waso Boorana, le Dieu de l'islam, le Dieu chretien et le Dieu Oromo sont equiva…
Burundi: Ethnocide as discourse and practice
Burundi: Ethnocide as discourse and practice Get access Burundi: Ethnocide as discourse and practice, by Rene Lemarchand. Woodrow Wilson Center Press Series and Cambridge University Press, 1994. xxiii+206 pp. £32.50 hardback; ISBN 0-521-45176-0. MARIO I. AGUILAR MARIO I. AGUILAR University of St. Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 96, Issue 382, January 1997, Pages 128–129, htt…
The Politics of Cultural Performance
The line between what is regarded by people as traditional and modern is constantly being altered by new configurations of power. These essays examine the ways in which such changes are both communicated and created through cultural performances in diverse ethnographic settings. Examples are drawn from a wide range of forms and expressions: divinatory sequences, spirit possession rites, state ceremonials, village feasts, pilgrimages, language-use…
Dios en Africa. Elementos para una antropologia de la religion
The Pastoral Continuum: The Marginalization of Tradition in East Africa
The Poetics and Politics of Tuareg Aging: Life Course and Personal Destiny in Niger
In this unique ethnographical study of the people of the Kel Ewey confederation of Tuareg, Rasmussen explores concepts of age and aging in an African culture. A seminomadic community in northern Niger, the Tuareg understand aging in a way that is distinctly nonlinear - a dimension of life they measure outside of a chronological time frame. Instead, rituals related to marriage, childbirth, and death mark the process of aging. In this way the life …
Religion as culture or culture as religion? The status quaestionis of ritual and performance
This paper examines some of the current ideas and methods that have problematised the study of religion within a globalised community. Religion and culture cannot be considered bounded entities, to be described as unchangeable. However, their constant process of change is not something new. It becomes new due to writing patterns and contemporary ideas on the relevance of religion or the creativity of culture. By analysing some discussions on poss…
A River of Blessings: Essays in Honor of Paul Baxter
David Brokensha (ed.), A River of Blessings: essays in honor of Paul Baxter. Foreign and Comparative Studies, African series, 44, Syracuse NY: Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 1994, 318 pp., $29.50, 318 pp., ISBN 0 915984 69 5. - Volume 70 Issue 2
The Vicaría de la Solidaridad and the Pinochet Regime, 1976-1980: Religion and Politics in 20 th Century Chile
Iberoamericana – Revista Nórdica de Estudios de Latinoamérica y el Caribe, es una revista académica arbitrada, interdisciplinaria y bilingüe. Es administrada por el Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad de Estocolmo en colaboración con otras universidades nórdicas con el objetivo de presentar investigación de alta calidad sobre América Latina.La revista publica artículos originales enfocados en temas relacionados con las cienci…
The Theology of Inculturation and the Liturgical Writings of F. Kabasele Lumbula
Cet article expose la problematique de la theologie de l'inculturation, representee ici avant-tout par la theologie africaine de F. Kabasale Lumbala. Se detournant de la tentation d'une revendication politique, Kabasale Lumbala, dan sa theologie africaine, met l'accent sur la liturgie et les sacrements, sur la place accordee au corps, et sur la personne du Christ
Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse: The Search for Freedom and Democracy
Asafa Jalata (ed.), Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse: the search for freedom and democracy. Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea Press1998, 313 pp., US24.95, ISBN 1 56902 066 3 (paperback). - Volume 71 Issue 2
Survival on Meagre Resources: Hadendowa Pastoralism in the Red Sea Hills
Eva Evers Rosander (ed.), Transforming Female Identities: women's organisational forms in West Africa. Seminar Proceedings 31. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1997, 243 pp., £18.95, ISBN 91 7106 403 6. - Volume 71 Issue 3
The Politics of Age and Gerontocracy in Africa: Ethnographies of the past and Memories of the Present
Mario I. Aguilar (ed.), The Politics of Age and Gerontocracy in Africa: ethnographies of the past and memories of the present. Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press, 1998, 306 pp., £14.99, ISBN 0 86543 598 7 paperback. - Volume 71 Issue 3
The Gabra: Camel Nomads of Northern Kenya
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Disappeared and the Mesa de Diálogo in Chile 1999-2001: Searching for Those Who Never Grew Old
This paper describes steps taken in order to deal with information regarding human rights abuses in Chile during the Pinochet regime, focusing on the most recent initiative, the Mesa de Diálogo (1999-2001) whose final report was given to president Lagos in January 2001. Two national initiatives, i.e. the establishment and reports of the Comisión de Verdad y Reconciliación (1991) and the following-up of this inquiry by the Corporación Nacional de …
Pastoralists under Pressure? Fulbe Societies Confronting Change in West Africa
Victor Azarya, Anneke Breedveld, Mirjam de Bruijn, and Han Van Dijk (eds) Pastoralists Under Pressure? Fulbe societies confronting change in West Africa. Leiden, Boston, and Köln: Brill, 1999, 454pp., €57.20, ISBN 90 04 11364 9 (hard covers). - Volume 73 Issue 3
Anthropology and Biblical Studies: Avenues of Approach
State Crises, Globalisation and National Movements in North-East Africa: The Horn's Dilemma
This book demonstrates that the crises of the Horn states stem from their political behaviour and structural forces.
Methodological Reflections
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