The work of the enlightened hispano-American Jews, residing in Italy, reveals a wide and diverse cultural panorama, beyond the great signatures such as Viscardo or Clavigero. Since the 18th century italic peninsula, melancolic but also committed literature has become, in the long term, the extension...

In this paper, we heed the recent call by migration and urban studies scholars to bring questions of space, locality and culture squarely into discussions of immigrant incorporation. While many urban studies scholars focus on how specific “global cities” influence and are influenced by worldwide eco...

Since the 1980s, they have been receiving immigrants who are gradually entering and stabilising in Spanish society. Latin Americans, which are now the most important foreign group in Spain, have developed multiple forms of integration, one of which involves joining different pentecostal churches. Ba...

President Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) claims in 1946 that the U.S. should advance a "faith-based" diplomacy to encourage the spiritual reconstruction of a “dechristianized” Europe .To stand in the way of a Marxist and Godless Soviet Union, it has to begin with France, seen as the spiritual stone arc...

Néphi leads his disciples in the oil desert on Minerva Te-plywood, 1959 Brigham Young University Museum of Art The Foi articles of the Church of Jésus-Christ of the saints of the last days, written in 1842 by founder Joseph Smith in 1844, state: “We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and the...

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Commanded by prophetical decree in its beginnings and today admitted as an endemically unavoidable phenomenon (although officially not recommended by its hierarchy), migrations are a key element in the understanding of Mormonism and more widely, of transnational religious organizations. Mormonism, w...

Despite the current Brazilian Constitution defends religious freedom, Catholicism is the religion of the majority of the population, according to the IBGE survey.  This study aims to show the religious diversity, especially religious expression from the Far East, in particular those that have arisen...