"The choice of a PhD in Religious Studies, far from my area of initial academic training and professional activity, was based on the suspicion that it would be an area of study that would teach us about the most intimate part of ourselves, since it has always been about Humanity and its beliefs.
Now, in the certainty of this, I feel myself growing through the eclectic wisdom of the ever-present teachers, who make us see that when you believe in Humanity, you need, first and foremost, to have someone to defend it, and that, to do this, we need to get rid of those ideological airs that assail us in a very intricate tangle of dubious causal connections, these wokisms that seem to noisily, and even worse when silently, plague our cultural meanders, setting themselves up as batons of new times, with fabricated contexts, euphemistic and politically correct vocabulary, with aseptic and mignon ideals. 
Here, we cultivate the deeply risky habit of thinking."

 

Sílvia Fernandes