Valentina Pereira Arena
Biographic Data
| ID | 921556 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valentina Pereira Arena |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valentina Pereira |
| FAMILY NAME | Arena |
| SIGNATURE | ARENA V P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Católica del Uruguay |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1732-9975 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Conditional Privatization of Religion: How Host-Society Structures Condition Migrants’ Religious Lives in Latin America
Este artículo examina cómo las estructuras simbólico-culturales y material-relacionales de las sociedades receptoras configuran la vida religiosa de migrantes peruanos en Córdoba (Argentina) y Montevideo (Uruguay), y bajo qué condiciones la privatización religiosa depende del contexto más que de una elección individual. Mediante un diseño cualitativo comparativo, desde la perspectiva de la religión vivida, se analizaron 22 entrevistas biográfico-…
The Multicultural Ethnic and Religious Mosaic of Ottoman-origin Immigrants in Uruguay (1875–1932): A Quantitative and Qualitative Study
This paper analyzes Uruguay’s rich cultural mosaic of ethnic and religious minorities from the Ottoman Empire through the lens of migration. Between 1875 and 1932—during Uruguay’s modernization and before the implementation of restrictive immigration laws—waves of immigrants of Ottoman origin helped shape the country’s social and cultural fabric. By combining archival documents, passenger lists, census data, and life stories, the article contribu…
The Roman Democracy of Fergus Millar
In his The Roman Republic in Political Thought (his Jerusalem Lectures in History, delivered in memory of Menahem Stern), Millar refers to the reforms implemented in 1980s by Thatcher’s government as the historical context in which he first conceived his work on the Roman Republic. However, the political climate of that era, this paper shows, did not merely serve as the context in which Millar thought about the Republican political system. Rather…
Arbitrium and potestas in Ancient Rome: On Quentin Skinner's Liberty as Independence
Rights, Pragmatism, and Governance: Religion in Uruguay’s Prisons
Panorama Religioso Do Uruguai: Um Diálogo Com Valentina Pereira Arena
É motivo de grande alegria contar com sua presença nesta oportunidade de trocar pensamentos sobre o fenômeno religioso no contexto da América Latina. Possivelmente, compartilhamos muito mais do que normalmente supomos, já que as transformações na realidade social latino-americana - especialmente ao considerar as mudanças em termos eclesiais - apresentam sempre matizes específicos em cada país, mas também um forte entrelaçamento de relações e, em …
Desafíos y reflexiones sobre los sin religión en América Latina: Datos Y Perspectivas Futuras
The study of the "religionless" population in Latin America has gained academic momentum in recent years, driven by a significant increase in individuals who identify as unaffiliated. This category includes a diversity of positions ranging from militant atheism to religious indifference. This article analyzes the challenges of conceptualizing and categorizing the "religious-less" within a sociocultural context deeply marked by religiosity. It hig…
Panel sobre personas "sin religión" en América Latina: Reflexiones Finales
To conclude this asynchronous dialogue (which recreates the conversation held at the Conference on our panel: "Challenges and Reflections on the Non-Religious in Latin America: Data and Future Perspectives"), some key reflections will be presented in relation to the three proposed axes of work. The following questions will drive the discussions: 1) Is it possible to define a specific field of study for the "non-religious" in Latin America? And, i…
Weaving Borders, Resorting to Beliefs: The Role of Religion in the Migratory Trajectories of Intracontinental Migrants in Latin America
Religious Nones and Spirituality: A Comparison between Italian and Uruguayan Youth
Who are the religious Nones, given their representation as both a minority and a majority group within the religious landscape? This article presents findings from a comparative study of Italian and Uruguayan youth (n = 2047, with 844 Nones), focusing on sociodemographic profiles of "Nones", their spirituality, religious belief, practice, and atheist and agnostic identities. The findings suggest that regardless of cultural context-whether in pred…
A Latin American view of lived religion proposal
In Latin American social studies, the lived religion approach has emerged as a fresh perspective for examining individuals' tangible interactions with the sacred in their daily lives. Through a qualitative systematic review, this article sheds light on the academic production utilising the lived religion framework to unravel Latin American spirituality. By navigating thematic nuances and scholars' critical findings, this study reveals the contrib…
Entre el opio del pueblo y la búsqueda de la salvación. Aproximaciones a lareligiosidad vividadesde América Latina
In this special issue, we explore the concept of lived religion in order to construct categories for the study of religion that reflect the Latin American reality, where, despite modernization, studies do not observe secularization, but rather a transformation in the practices and social role of religion. Lived religion deals with understanding what ordinary people do when they practice religion in their daily lives. When we speak of lived religi…
Varro, the Name-Givers, and the Lawgivers: The Case of the Consuls
This essay aims at identifying a tradition of lawgivers in the political culture of the late Republic. It focuses on the antiquarian tradition of the second half of the first century BC, which, it argues, should be considered part of the wider quest for legal normativism that takes place towards the end of the Republic. By reconstructing the intellectual debates on the nature of the consulship, which at the time was carried out through the means …
Between Rhetoric, Social Norms, and Law: Liberty of Speech in Republican Rome
Although modern Republicanism, which highly values the right of freedom of speech, finds its inspiration in the historical reality of the Roman Republic, it seems that in the course of the Republican period citizens shared a recognised ability to speak freely in public, but did not enjoy equal status with one another in the domain of speech as protected by law. Of course, Republican Rome knew laws regulating free speech and perhaps even later pro…
Testimonios de salvación: Historias de conversión y cambio de vida entre creyentes evangélicos de Montevideo
En este trabajo se pretende mostrar e intentar categorizar los distintos testimonios de vida brindados por creyentes evangélicos conversos. En la ciudad de Montevideo se entrevistaron, a través del enfoque teórico-metodológico de la religiosidad vivida (lived religion), a 11 personas que en algún punto de su vida se convirtieron al evangelismo y que - en algún momento de la entrevista - compartieron estas historias de conversión y de-conversión, …
Ancient history and contemporary political theory: The case of liberty
Providing an introduction to this special issue on the ancient notions of liberty and its modern perspectives, this essay contains, first, some reflections about the relation between the fields of ancient history and contemporary political theory. Building on the comments of the final roundtable with Kinch Hoekstra and Quentin Skinner, it then makes an attempt at extrapolating some theoretical understandings of liberty from a wide range of geogra…
Fighting Corruption
Corruption was seen as a major factor in the collapse of Republican Rome, as Valentina Arena’s subsequent essay “Fighting Corruption: Political Thought and Practice in the Late Roman Republic” argues. It was in reaction to this perception of the Republic’s political fortunes that an array of legislative and institutional measures were established and continually reformed to become more effective. What this chapter shows is that, as in Greece, the…
Popular sovereignty in the late Roman Republic: Cicero and the will of the people
This chapter is concerned with the development of Cicero's conception of the relationship between popular sovereignty and aristocratic government from the De re publica to the De legibus. When placed in its political and intellectual contexts, this development represents a significant strengthening of its aristocratic bias – specifically when considering Cicero's proposed reforms to the institutions of the senate and censorship as well as to the …
Libertas and the Practice of Politics in the Late Roman Republic
The Orator and His Audience: The Rhetorical Perspective in the Art of Deliberation
This chapter explores how oratorical audiences were portrayed in works that were specifically meant to function as a means of practical guidance to the study of rhetoric. According to Cicero, the ultimate power lay with the audience who would proclaim the orator’s success or failure by agreeing or rejecting his description of affairs. In these rhetorical texts, the audience is portrayed as holding this power by virtue of its prudentia, the attrib…
The consulship of 78 bc. Catulus versus Lepidus: An optimates versus populares affair
Introduction It has long been known, if not always plainly stated, that the Roman elite commonly described in our sources as optimates acted in support and defense of the Sullan constitution, interpreted as the traditional republican settlements centered on the senate. However, what scholars have failed to see is that such support for the Sullan arrangements could be justified in the political conflicts of the first century bc by recourse to Stoi…
Roman sumptuary legislation: Three concepts of liberty
This article argues that, next to a certain intellectual tradition of Roman liberty, often labelled ‘neo-Roman’ or ‘Republican’, we should also take into account the existence of, at least, two other conceptions of liberty, which have so far remained occluded under the prominence of Cicero’s ideas and the appropriation of them by later thinkers. By analysing the debate in opposition and in favour of sumptuary laws enacted from the 3rd century bc …
Roman Oratorical Invective
Invocation to Liberty and Invective of Dominatus at the End of the Roman Republic
Journal Article INVOCATION TO LIBERTY AND INVECTIVE OF DOMINATUS AT THE END OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC Get access VALENTINA ARENA VALENTINA ARENA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 50, Issue 1, December 2007, Pages 49–73, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2007.tb00264.x Published: 12 March 2010
Entre el opio del pueblo y la búsqueda de la salvación. Aproximaciones a lareligiosidad vividadesde América Latina
In this special issue, we explore the concept of lived religion in order to construct categories for the study of religion that reflect the Latin American reality, where, despite modernization, studies do not observe secularization, but rather a transformation in the practices and social role of religion. Lived religion deals with understanding what ordinary people do when they practice religion in their daily lives. When we speak of lived religi…
Religious Nones and Spirituality: A Comparison between Italian and Uruguayan Youth
Who are the religious Nones, given their representation as both a minority and a majority group within the religious landscape? This article presents findings from a comparative study of Italian and Uruguayan youth (n = 2047, with 844 Nones), focusing on sociodemographic profiles of "Nones", their spirituality, religious belief, practice, and atheist and agnostic identities. The findings suggest that regardless of cultural context-whether in pred…
Weaving Borders, Resorting to Beliefs: The Role of Religion in the Migratory Trajectories of Intracontinental Migrants in Latin America
Invocation to Liberty and Invective of Dominatus at the End of the Roman Republic
Journal Article INVOCATION TO LIBERTY AND INVECTIVE OF DOMINATUS AT THE END OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC Get access VALENTINA ARENA VALENTINA ARENA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 50, Issue 1, December 2007, Pages 49–73, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2007.tb00264.x Published: 12 March 2010
Roman sumptuary legislation: Three concepts of liberty
This article argues that, next to a certain intellectual tradition of Roman liberty, often labelled ‘neo-Roman’ or ‘Republican’, we should also take into account the existence of, at least, two other conceptions of liberty, which have so far remained occluded under the prominence of Cicero’s ideas and the appropriation of them by later thinkers. By analysing the debate in opposition and in favour of sumptuary laws enacted from the 3rd century bc …
A Latin American view of lived religion proposal
In Latin American social studies, the lived religion approach has emerged as a fresh perspective for examining individuals' tangible interactions with the sacred in their daily lives. Through a qualitative systematic review, this article sheds light on the academic production utilising the lived religion framework to unravel Latin American spirituality. By navigating thematic nuances and scholars' critical findings, this study reveals the contrib…
Testimonios de salvación: Historias de conversión y cambio de vida entre creyentes evangélicos de Montevideo
En este trabajo se pretende mostrar e intentar categorizar los distintos testimonios de vida brindados por creyentes evangélicos conversos. En la ciudad de Montevideo se entrevistaron, a través del enfoque teórico-metodológico de la religiosidad vivida (lived religion), a 11 personas que en algún punto de su vida se convirtieron al evangelismo y que - en algún momento de la entrevista - compartieron estas historias de conversión y de-conversión, …
Roman Oratorical Invective
Invocation to Liberty and Invective of Dominatus at the End of the Roman Republic
Journal Article INVOCATION TO LIBERTY AND INVECTIVE OF DOMINATUS AT THE END OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC Get access VALENTINA ARENA VALENTINA ARENA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 50, Issue 1, December 2007, Pages 49–73, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2007.tb00264.x Published: 12 March 2010
The consulship of 78 bc. Catulus versus Lepidus: An optimates versus populares affair
Introduction It has long been known, if not always plainly stated, that the Roman elite commonly described in our sources as optimates acted in support and defense of the Sullan constitution, interpreted as the traditional republican settlements centered on the senate. However, what scholars have failed to see is that such support for the Sullan arrangements could be justified in the political conflicts of the first century bc by recourse to Stoi…
Roman sumptuary legislation: Three concepts of liberty
This article argues that, next to a certain intellectual tradition of Roman liberty, often labelled ‘neo-Roman’ or ‘Republican’, we should also take into account the existence of, at least, two other conceptions of liberty, which have so far remained occluded under the prominence of Cicero’s ideas and the appropriation of them by later thinkers. By analysing the debate in opposition and in favour of sumptuary laws enacted from the 3rd century bc …
Libertas and the Practice of Politics in the Late Roman Republic
The Orator and His Audience: The Rhetorical Perspective in the Art of Deliberation
This chapter explores how oratorical audiences were portrayed in works that were specifically meant to function as a means of practical guidance to the study of rhetoric. According to Cicero, the ultimate power lay with the audience who would proclaim the orator’s success or failure by agreeing or rejecting his description of affairs. In these rhetorical texts, the audience is portrayed as holding this power by virtue of its prudentia, the attrib…
Popular sovereignty in the late Roman Republic: Cicero and the will of the people
This chapter is concerned with the development of Cicero's conception of the relationship between popular sovereignty and aristocratic government from the De re publica to the De legibus. When placed in its political and intellectual contexts, this development represents a significant strengthening of its aristocratic bias – specifically when considering Cicero's proposed reforms to the institutions of the senate and censorship as well as to the …
Fighting Corruption
Corruption was seen as a major factor in the collapse of Republican Rome, as Valentina Arena’s subsequent essay “Fighting Corruption: Political Thought and Practice in the Late Roman Republic” argues. It was in reaction to this perception of the Republic’s political fortunes that an array of legislative and institutional measures were established and continually reformed to become more effective. What this chapter shows is that, as in Greece, the…
Ancient history and contemporary political theory: The case of liberty
Providing an introduction to this special issue on the ancient notions of liberty and its modern perspectives, this essay contains, first, some reflections about the relation between the fields of ancient history and contemporary political theory. Building on the comments of the final roundtable with Kinch Hoekstra and Quentin Skinner, it then makes an attempt at extrapolating some theoretical understandings of liberty from a wide range of geogra…
Between Rhetoric, Social Norms, and Law: Liberty of Speech in Republican Rome
Although modern Republicanism, which highly values the right of freedom of speech, finds its inspiration in the historical reality of the Roman Republic, it seems that in the course of the Republican period citizens shared a recognised ability to speak freely in public, but did not enjoy equal status with one another in the domain of speech as protected by law. Of course, Republican Rome knew laws regulating free speech and perhaps even later pro…
Testimonios de salvación: Historias de conversión y cambio de vida entre creyentes evangélicos de Montevideo
En este trabajo se pretende mostrar e intentar categorizar los distintos testimonios de vida brindados por creyentes evangélicos conversos. En la ciudad de Montevideo se entrevistaron, a través del enfoque teórico-metodológico de la religiosidad vivida (lived religion), a 11 personas que en algún punto de su vida se convirtieron al evangelismo y que - en algún momento de la entrevista - compartieron estas historias de conversión y de-conversión, …
Varro, the Name-Givers, and the Lawgivers: The Case of the Consuls
This essay aims at identifying a tradition of lawgivers in the political culture of the late Republic. It focuses on the antiquarian tradition of the second half of the first century BC, which, it argues, should be considered part of the wider quest for legal normativism that takes place towards the end of the Republic. By reconstructing the intellectual debates on the nature of the consulship, which at the time was carried out through the means …
Entre el opio del pueblo y la búsqueda de la salvación. Aproximaciones a lareligiosidad vividadesde América Latina
In this special issue, we explore the concept of lived religion in order to construct categories for the study of religion that reflect the Latin American reality, where, despite modernization, studies do not observe secularization, but rather a transformation in the practices and social role of religion. Lived religion deals with understanding what ordinary people do when they practice religion in their daily lives. When we speak of lived religi…
Weaving Borders, Resorting to Beliefs: The Role of Religion in the Migratory Trajectories of Intracontinental Migrants in Latin America
Religious Nones and Spirituality: A Comparison between Italian and Uruguayan Youth
Who are the religious Nones, given their representation as both a minority and a majority group within the religious landscape? This article presents findings from a comparative study of Italian and Uruguayan youth (n = 2047, with 844 Nones), focusing on sociodemographic profiles of "Nones", their spirituality, religious belief, practice, and atheist and agnostic identities. The findings suggest that regardless of cultural context-whether in pred…
A Latin American view of lived religion proposal
In Latin American social studies, the lived religion approach has emerged as a fresh perspective for examining individuals' tangible interactions with the sacred in their daily lives. Through a qualitative systematic review, this article sheds light on the academic production utilising the lived religion framework to unravel Latin American spirituality. By navigating thematic nuances and scholars' critical findings, this study reveals the contrib…
The Multicultural Ethnic and Religious Mosaic of Ottoman-origin Immigrants in Uruguay (1875–1932): A Quantitative and Qualitative Study
This paper analyzes Uruguay’s rich cultural mosaic of ethnic and religious minorities from the Ottoman Empire through the lens of migration. Between 1875 and 1932—during Uruguay’s modernization and before the implementation of restrictive immigration laws—waves of immigrants of Ottoman origin helped shape the country’s social and cultural fabric. By combining archival documents, passenger lists, census data, and life stories, the article contribu…
The Roman Democracy of Fergus Millar
In his The Roman Republic in Political Thought (his Jerusalem Lectures in History, delivered in memory of Menahem Stern), Millar refers to the reforms implemented in 1980s by Thatcher’s government as the historical context in which he first conceived his work on the Roman Republic. However, the political climate of that era, this paper shows, did not merely serve as the context in which Millar thought about the Republican political system. Rather…
Arbitrium and potestas in Ancient Rome: On Quentin Skinner's Liberty as Independence
Rights, Pragmatism, and Governance: Religion in Uruguay’s Prisons
Panorama Religioso Do Uruguai: Um Diálogo Com Valentina Pereira Arena
É motivo de grande alegria contar com sua presença nesta oportunidade de trocar pensamentos sobre o fenômeno religioso no contexto da América Latina. Possivelmente, compartilhamos muito mais do que normalmente supomos, já que as transformações na realidade social latino-americana - especialmente ao considerar as mudanças em termos eclesiais - apresentam sempre matizes específicos em cada país, mas também um forte entrelaçamento de relações e, em …
Desafíos y reflexiones sobre los sin religión en América Latina: Datos Y Perspectivas Futuras
The study of the "religionless" population in Latin America has gained academic momentum in recent years, driven by a significant increase in individuals who identify as unaffiliated. This category includes a diversity of positions ranging from militant atheism to religious indifference. This article analyzes the challenges of conceptualizing and categorizing the "religious-less" within a sociocultural context deeply marked by religiosity. It hig…
Panel sobre personas "sin religión" en América Latina: Reflexiones Finales
To conclude this asynchronous dialogue (which recreates the conversation held at the Conference on our panel: "Challenges and Reflections on the Non-Religious in Latin America: Data and Future Perspectives"), some key reflections will be presented in relation to the three proposed axes of work. The following questions will drive the discussions: 1) Is it possible to define a specific field of study for the "non-religious" in Latin America? And, i…
Conditional Privatization of Religion: How Host-Society Structures Condition Migrants’ Religious Lives in Latin America
Este artículo examina cómo las estructuras simbólico-culturales y material-relacionales de las sociedades receptoras configuran la vida religiosa de migrantes peruanos en Córdoba (Argentina) y Montevideo (Uruguay), y bajo qué condiciones la privatización religiosa depende del contexto más que de una elección individual. Mediante un diseño cualitativo comparativo, desde la perspectiva de la religión vivida, se analizaron 22 entrevistas biográfico-…
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