Where Democracy, Rights
and religions meet
The Institute for Religious Studies (ISER) works to produce qualified knowledge, influence public debate, and engage in social dialogue with an emphasis on religion, always in favor of a just, inclusive, and sustainable society.
Performance
Faith in the Climate
Initiative that mobilizes and engages religious leaders and youths of different beliefs to raise awareness in their faith communities about the climate crisis.
Faith in the power that comes from the grassroots
Intervention and advisory project offered to Christian leaders committed to defending rights and promoting citizenship in various territories in Brazil.
Warriors for Decarceration
Training that discusses criminalization processes that produce mass incarceration and the rights of people deprived of liberty and their families.
Religion and Power
Open data, research, articles and reports on the actions of political agents with religious identities in the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary branches. Interactive analyzes and graphics on the composition of the Brazilian religious field and, also, a glossary that explains terms essential to the debate on religion and public space. All of this content is found in Religion and Power Platform.
Latest publications
Religion & Society Magazine
A scientific journal dedicated to the theme of religion in all its possibilities of relations with society, Revista Religião e Sociedade is one of the main academic publications in the area of Social Sciences and, since its foundation in 1977, has contributed to the exchange of production from different research centers in Brazil and abroad on the subject of religion.
