Géraldine Mossière
Born in 1975 in France, Géraldine Mossière is a full professor at the Institute of Religious Studies and the Department of Anthropology of the University of Montreal (UdeM).
An anthropologist, she was a visiting professor at the Institute of Mediterranean, European and Comparative Ethnology (IDEMEC, Aix-en-Provence) in 2018-2019, then held the EHESS/IMéRA chair in transregional studies at the Marseille Institute for Advanced Study in 2019-2020. In 2022 she received the Medal of Excellence in Research of the UdeM Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and in 2025 the Luc-Lacourcière Medal for her book Portraits de la modernité (non) religieuse.
Her work focuses on contemporary religious subjectivities and behaviours approached through ethnography: religious conversions, spirituality, care and healing, African Pentecostal churches, the trajectories of women converted to Islam, and religion and migration. She is the author of Converties à l’islam: parcours de femmes au Québec et en France (Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2013) and Portraits de la modernité (non) religieuse (Presses de l’Université Laval).
She is a member of the “Religions and Societies” research group of the Master’s programme of the Al Mowafaqa Ecumenical Institute of Theology (IOTAM, Rabat).
Resources related to
Anthropology of Religions
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Experiencing a Mosque Through Photography: Islam As an Ordinary Religion
- Guillaume Chatagny
Abstract Published in 2021 in Visual Ethnography (vol. 10, no. 2) under the title "Experiencing a Mosque Through Photography: Islam As an Ordinary Religion", this article by Guillaume Chatagny, ...
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Les Affranchis. Des dérives religieuses dans le judaïsme, le christianisme et l’islam
- Roberta Collu Moran
Les Affranchis. Des dérives religieuses dans le judaïsme, le christianisme et l’islam (Le Passeur, 2020) offers an anthropological reading of religious excesses and radicalisation within the ...
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A Fragrant Spiritual Heritage. Some Considerations on Perfumes in Islam
- Ida Zilio-Grandi
Abstract Published in volume 20 (2025) of Quaderni di Studi Arabi, this article by Ida Zilio-Grandi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) revisits a constant of Islamic history that has attracted r...
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Photographing Ordinary Islam
- Guillaume Chatagny
What does Islam concretely look like within a Muslim association? This is the question addressed by sociologist Guillaume Chatagny in this book, based on fieldwork conducted between 2017 and 2021 w...
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Religious Tourism and Sustainability in the MENA Region
- Antonio Angelucci
Edited by Antonio Angelucci, Flavia Cortelezzi and Alessandro Cupri (Ledizioni, 2025), this volume offers a theoretical and methodological framework for religious tourism, a continuously expanding ...
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“An Anthropology of Imamite Love among Iranian Believers”, by Sepideh Parsapajouh
- Sepideh Parsapajouh
In the volume honouring the Islamic-studies scholar Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, De la lettre à l'esprit (eds. Orkhan Mir-Kasimov and Mathieu Terrier, Brepols, 2025), Sepideh Parsapajouh, an anthropol...
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Women, Agency and Religion: Social and Legal Issues in the Mediterranean Public Space
- Leïla Tauil
On the two Mediterranean shores, women’s agency is articulated by new social and legal actors who face the religious factor both as an asset and as a hindrance. This book explores how female ...
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What does the reformation of religion mean?
Lecture given by Mohamed El Haddad as part of the Anawati Chair at the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies in Cairo. Summary Plural Mohamed El Haddad presents his conception of religious re...