Staff profile

I am an anthropologist and specialise in the study of religion. My research to date has focused on the study of Christianity in postcolonial contexts. I have done long term fieldwork in the Republic of Benin, where focused on the study of Pentecostalism, and in the Huasteca region of Mexico where I studied an indigenous (Nahua) Catholic prophetic/millenarian movement.

My current research interests involve the study of religious colonial entanglements in secularised contexts. In particular, I am interested in exploring the incorporation of non-Western spiritual traditions into somatic therapeutic approaches that seek to address the inter-generational transmission of embodied memory and trauma, as well as other aspects of mental health and well-being. I teach modules on the study of religion in Latin America and Africa and ethnographic methods in the study of religion.

• Anthropology of Religion
• Africa
• Latin America
• Fieldwork: Benin Republic; Mexico
• Christianity
• Pentecostalism
• Gender
• Kinship
• Colonial religious entanglements
• Secularity

Authored book

• Quiroz Uria, S. (2008). Evangelizacion o fanatismo en la Huasteca?. El caso de Amalia Bautista Hernandez. CIESAS, COLSAN

Chapter in book

• Miles-Watson, J., & Quiroz, S. (2022). From the Gods' Mountains to the Messiah's Glade: Christian Landscapes of Africa and Asia. In J. Bielo, & A. Ron (Eds.), Landscapes of Christianity: Destination, Temporality, Transformation. Bloomsbury Academic
• Quiroz, S. (2019). Benin. In Brill's Encyclopedia of Global Pentecostalism Online. Brill Academic Publishers
• Quiroz, S. (2016). Seeking God's Blessings: Pentecostal Religious Discourses, Pyramidal Schemes and Money Scams in the Southeast of Benin Republic. In D. Whyte, & J. Wiegratz (Eds.), Neoliberalism and the moral economy of fraud (170-183). Routledge
• Quiroz Uria, S. (2013). El movimiento de Amalia Bautista en la Huasteca Meridional. Milenarismo y cambio social a fines del siglo XX. In A. B. Pérez Castro (Ed.), La Huaxteca. Concierto de saberes en homenaje a Lorenzo Ochoa. IIA, COLSAN

Journal Article

• Quiroz-Uria, S. (in press). Is Pentecostalism an American religion?. American Religion,
• Quiroz, S. (2016). The Dilemmas of Monogamy: Pleasure, Discipline and the Pentecostal Moral Self in the Republic of Benin. Religions, 7(8), Article 102. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel7080102