A SAHA Conversation with Professor Mario I. Aguilar - a special episode on the Conclave

Welcome to a new episode of SAHA Conversations, a podcast by the Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA).

In this episode, we will be in conversation with Professor Mario I. Aguilar, Chair of Religion and Politics and  the current director and a founding director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics at the University of St Andrews, to talk about the Conclave

Professor Aguilar completed a biography of Pope Francis (Pope Francis: His Life and Thought, 2014) that connects with many of his works on the history of the Church in Latin America and Latin American theologies previously published, including: A Social History of the Catholic Church in Chile (9 volumes, 2004–), The History and Politics of Latin American Theology (3 volumes, 2007-2008),  Cardenal Raúl Silva Henríquez: presencia en la vida de Chile 1907-1999 (2004), and Current Issues on Theology and Religion in Latin America and Africa (2002).

His research also includes what is considered to be the largest study of its kind, a ten-year research project conducted between 2007 and 2017 on religion and politics in Tibet.

Professor Aguilar is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS, 2013), Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (FRAS, 2012), Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA, 2011), Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute (FRAI, 1996) and a member of the UNESCO commission of Scotland.

This episode was recorded on May 7th.