Clodomir Barros de Andrade

Associate Professor, Postgraduate Program in Religious Studies (PPCIR) and Department of Religious Studies (DECRE), Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Clodomir Barros de Andrade holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1990), an M.A. in Philosophy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1995), a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2013) and a post-doctorate at Boston University (2017/2018). 

Prof. Barros de Andrade has experience in the fields of philosophy and religious studies, with a focus on ancient Greek religions and the history of philosophy, working mainly on the following themes : traditions of immanence and non-dualism in the East (Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism) and the West (earlier thought - Socratic, Stoic, Spinoza, Hölderlin and Thoreau). He is currently focusing on Greek spirituality, the philosophy of nature, the possible relationship between the experience of the sacred and nature, and the study of Hellenic neopaganism. He coordinates the RENATURA study group (PPCIR/UFJF/CNPq), dedicated to exploring the overlap between nature, spirituality and philosophy.

The project

Title: "The divine trace in the world: towards a semiotics of theophany"

As we know, the ancient Greeks believed that the divine manifests itself immediately to humanity as a sensitive phenomenon (aisthesis). Therefore, the present project is part of a triple effort aimed at: (i) contributing to the study of ancient Greek spiritualities through the specific methodologies of the field of Religious Studies; (ii) contribute with an aesthetic-semiotic methodological perspective which, ideally, would allow us to explore the natural, material and synesthetic reverberations of such a phenomenon; (iii) in what is conventionally called "ecotheology", reflect, in the context of the current serious environmental crisis, on the possibility offered to us by the Greek polytheistic spirituality of immanence to rethink our relationship to the natural world, in this case , conceived as vascularized by the divine presence.

Host institution : Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques - Anhima, Paris

Selective Bibliography

Books

• BARROS DE ANDRADE, C. (org.) Natureza e sagrado: olhares. 1. ed. Juiz de Fora: Editora UFJF, 2023, 203p. (« Nature et sacré: perspectives »).

• BARROS DE ANDRADE, C. Thoreau's pedagogy of awakening. 1. ed. Lanham, Maryland: Hamilton/Rowan & Littlefield, 2022, 165p. (« La pédagogie de l'éveil de Thoreau »).

• BARROS DE ANDRADE, C. Budismo em sete lições. 1. ed. Petrópolis: Vozes, 2021, 239 p. (« Le bouddhisme en sept leçons »).

Peer-reviewed articles

• BARROS DE ANDRADE, C. “O rastro divino no mundo: por uma semiótica da teofania”. Reflexão, v. 48, e238520, 2023. https://doi. org/10.24220/2447-6803v48e2023a8520. (« La trace divine dans le monde : vers une sémiotique de la théophanie »).

• BARROS DE ANDRADE, C. “Intimacy with nature: Thoreau’s pedagogy of awakening”. Atualidade Teológica, v. XXIV, p. 47838-103, 2020. (« Intimité avec la nature : la pédagogie de l’éveil de Thoreau »).

Publication of peer-reviewed book chapters

• BARROS DE ANDRADE, C. “Teologia, imanência e estética nas espiritualidades gregas antigas: por uma semiótica do rastro divino no mundo”. In: MARTINS FILHO, J. R.; CARVALHO DA SILVA, D. (Org.). Religião, arte e cultura. 1ed., Porto Alegre: Editora Fi, 2023, pp. 377-394. (« Théologie, immanence et esthétique dans les spiritualités grecques antiques »).