Mario I. Aguilar

Professor of Religion & Politics

Director of the Centre for the Study of Religion & Politics

Mario I. Aguilar has a particular interest in the Churches, theology, religion, ritual, and politics of Latin America and Africa, and the relation between anthropology and biblical studies.

He is currently writing a nine volume work on the social history of the Catholic Church in Chile.

• Chair of Ritual Studies of the American Academy of Religion
• Associate Member of the Anthropos Institut (Germany)
• Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute
• Member of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Britain and the Commonwealth (ASA)
• Member of the International African Institute
• Member of the American Anthropological Association and elected Member of the Steering Committee for the Ritual Studies Interest Group
• Representative of the Royal Africa Society Scotland to the University of St Andrews

Professor Mario Aguilar is the co-ordinator of the LINK Scotland-Colombia, at this University. The project was the recipient in the year 2000 of 175,000 grant from the Darwin Initiative for the survival of species at the Government's Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions.

Education

BA (Chile)

STB, MA (Katholieke Universiteit Louvain)

Dipl.Comm. (Maynooth)

MA, PhD (London)

FRAI

Appointed to a personal Chair in Divinity (Religion and Politics) in 2006.

Main Publications

Research Interests Include:

The Study of Religion; Religion in the Contemporary World; Theology in Latin America and Africa; Contextual Theology; Biblical Studies and Anthropology.

Publications

(see also Further Publications)

Women's Organizing Abilities: Two Case Studies in Kenya and Malawi, with Laurel Birch de Aguilar. Washington, DC: ODIII, 85 pp., 1993.

Ministry to Social and Religious Outcasts in Africa. Eldoret, Kenya: AMECEA Gaba Publications, 91 pp., 1995.

Dios en Africa: Elementos para una Antropología de la Religión. Estella, Navarra (Spain): Editorial Verbo Divino, pp. 143 pp., 1997.

Being Oromo in Kenya. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 273 pp., 1998.

The Rwanda Genocide and the Call to Deepen Christianity in Africa. Eldoret, Kenya: AMECEA Gaba Publications, 101 pp., 1998.

The Politics of Age and Gerontocracy in Africa: Ethnographies of the Past and Memories of the Present, ed. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 302 pp., 1998.

Current Issues on Theology and Religion in Latin America and Africa. Lewiston, N.Y. and Lampeter, U.K.: Edwin Mellen Press, 280 + xv pp., 2002.

A Social History of the Catholic Church in Chile Vol. I: The First Period of the Pinochet Government 1973-1980. Lewinston, New York, Queenston, Ontario and Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004, 302 pp. Winner of the Adele Mellen Prize 2004

Cardenal Raúl Silva Henríquez: presencia en la vida de Chile (1907-1999). Santiago: Copygraph, 216 pp., 2004.

Anthropology and Biblical Studies: Avenues of Approach, edited with L.J. Lawrence. Leiden: Deo Publishing, 324 pp., 2004.

A Social History of the Catholic Church in Chile Vol. II: The Archbishop Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez. Lewinston, New York, Queenston, Ontario and Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 364 pp. 2006.

A Social History of the Catholic Church in Chile Vol. III: The Second Period of the Pinochet Government 1980-1990. Lewinston, New York, Queenston, Ontario and Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.

Rethinking Age in Africa: Colonial, Postcolonial and Contemporary Interpretations of Cultural Representations, ed. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2007.

A Social History of the Catholic Church in Chile Vol. IV: Torture and Forced Disappearance 1973-1974. Lewinston, New York, Queenston, Ontario and Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007.

The History and Politics of Latin American Theology, vol. I: The Problem of Theological Generations. London: SCM Press, 2007.

The History and Politics of Latin American Theology, vol. II: Theology and Civil Society. London: SCM Press, 2007.

Oromo Ritual and Religion: The Politics of God in East Africa. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2007.

Contemplation and Politics: Essays on the Relation of Religion and Politics. London: SPCK, 2008.

A Social History of the Catholic Church in Chile Vol. V: Torture and Forced Disappearance 1974-1976. Lewinston, New York, Queenston, Ontario and Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.

A Social History of the Catholic Church in Chile Vol. VI: The Allende Government 1970-1973. Lewinston, New York, Queenston, Ontario and Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

A Social History of the Catholic Church in Chile Vol. VII: Christians for Socialism and the MIR. Lewinston, New York, Queenston, Ontario and Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.

A Social History of the Catholic Church in Chile Vol. VIII: The Visit of John Paul II (1987). Lewinston, New York, Queenston, Ontario and Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.

A Social History of the Catholic Church in Chile Vol. IX: St. Alberto Hurtado and St. Teresa de Los Andes. Lewinston, New York, Queenston, Ontario and Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 2013.