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  • Almost every adult in Argentina does something religious or spiritual. Most of it happens at home, alone, and outside any institution.

    Almost every adult in Argentina does something religious or spiritual. Most of it happens at home, alone, and outside any institution.

    If you ask Argentines what they believe or which church they belong to, you get one picture. If you ask what they actually do, you get a very different one. That is the premise of the National Survey on Lived Religion (ENReVi 2026), whose first report was released in September 2026 by sociologists Hugo H. Rabbia (Universidad Católica…

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  • The Oldest Tattoo Shop in the World Is in Jerusalem.

    The Oldest Tattoo Shop in the World Is in Jerusalem.

    Long before photographs, souvenirs or stamps in a passport, a pilgrim who reached the Holy Land faced a practical problem: how do you prove you were really there? In Jerusalem, one family has been answering that question for more than seven hundred years, in ink. The Jerusalem episode of Blood, Ink & Soul, our documentary…

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  • Blood, Ink & Soul: Faith Written in Skin

    Blood, Ink & Soul: Faith Written in Skin

    Long before passport stamps and photographs, pilgrims needed a way to prove they had reached a place that mattered. Many of them chose the most permanent option available: they had the proof cut into their skin. Blood, Ink & Soul is a four-part documentary series from the Lived Religion Initiative that follows that practice into…

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