THE STUDY OF RELIGION IN DEPARTAMENT OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM

The authcrs of this artic analy the trajectory and the conterrporary moment of a group of profsors and reseamhers in Anthiopolcgy of Religion at the Departmmt of Social Anthropology at Free University of Amsterdam. They elabcrate a brief histcry of the constitution of the group in secord half of the Century in the decades of 1960 and 1970, the field resrch were devebped in different loca in the world, with theomtical marks also different. Nowadays there is an artiwlation of the researches of the profsors and Ph.D. studmts in two big plDgrams.The first: "Between secularization and sacralization", includes researches on the Dutth religious field from a qualitatiw methodological grade The secord: "Careers of conversion and politics of culture", is dedicated on the study of the expansionof charismatic and pentecostal Christianity in Holland and over the globe