On the paths of faith: history, religion and religiosity from Antiquity to the contemporary world

Abstract

This text is a review of the book História, Religões e Religiosidade: from Antiquity to contemporary clippings, new approaches and debates on religions. Plural work is organized by professors André Figueiredo Rodrigues from UNESP/Assis and José Otávio Aguiar from UFCG. It brings in its core debates and discussions that historiographic research has carried out in recent decades about religion and religiosity in different parts of the globe. From antiquity to the contemporary world, themes ranging from religiosity in the Greco-Roman world, colonial Africa, Portuguese America and Brazil Republic are addressed. In this work, its authors present an outline of what academia and history have researched in the universe of religion and its experience in society.