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Eugenia Roussou holds a PhD in Social Anthropology (2010) from University College London (UCL), University of London, London, U.K. She is currently a senior researcher at the Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA), ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal. She was previously a post-doctoral researcher at CRIA, Universidade Nova Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal (2011-2017), with two projects funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia-FCT (ref.: SFRH / BPD / 72003/2010), and a visiting researcher (2014-5) at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece. She is the Principal Investigator and team leader of the 3-year project ReSpell, funded by the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology (2023-). She is the co-Reviews Editor of the journal Religion and Society, the Treasurer of ISARS (International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism) and one of the main coordinators of NAR (Network for the Anthropology of Religion, CRIA). Her research focuses on the social scientific - and anthropological, more specifically - study of religion and spirituality, transnational religiosity, vernacular religion, New Age and/or alternative spirituality, religious pluralism, ritual healing practices, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), and religious materiality, with particular comparative geographical reference to Portugal and Greece.
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Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo
Eugenia Roussou
Género
Feminino

Nomes de citação

  • Roussou, Eugenia

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID
111B-2634-5A2F
ORCID iD
0000-0001-9018-7128
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ta7ng1QAAAAJ&hl=el

Endereços de correio eletrónico

  • jennyroussou@gmail.com (Profissional)
  • Eugenia.Roussou@iscte-iul.pt (Profissional)

Moradas

  • CRIA - Centro em Rede de Investigacao de Antropologia, Av. Forças Armadas, Edifício ISCTE-IUL, sala 2W2, 1649-026, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Profissional)

Websites

Domínios de atuação

  • Ciências Sociais - Sociologia - Antropologia

Idiomas

Idioma Conversação Leitura Escrita Compreensão Peer-review
Grego (Idioma materno)
Inglês Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2)
Português Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1)
Espanhol; Castelhano Utilizador elementar (A1) Utilizador independente (B1) Utilizador elementar (A1) Utilizador elementar (A2) Utilizador elementar (A1)
Formação
Grau Classificação
2004/09/01 - 2010/03/28
Concluído
 PhD in Social Anthropology (Doctor)
Especialização em Antropologia Social
University College London, Department of Anthropology, Reino Unido
2003/09/01 - 2004/09/01
Concluído
 MA in Social Anthropology (Master)
Goldsmiths University of London Department of Anthropology, Reino Unido
1999/09/01 - 2003/07/24
Concluído
 BA in History and Social Anthropology (Bachelor)
University of Thessaly Department of History Archaeology and Social Anthropology, Grécia
Percurso profissional

Ciência

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento 		Empregador
2018/09/01 - Atual Investigador Contratado (Investigação) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2017/01/09 - 2018/08/31 Investigador (Investigação) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2011/09/01 - 2017/08/31 Pós-doutorado (Investigação) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2014/09 - 2015/03 Investigador visitante (Investigação) Panteion Panepistemio Koinonikon kai Politikon Epistemon, Grécia

Cargos e Funções

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento 		Empregador
2019 - Atual Coordinator of Núcleo de Antropologia da Religião (Network for the Anthropology of Religion), NAR-CRIA Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Projetos

Bolsa

Designação Financiadores
2014/09/01 - 2017/08/31 Religion in/of Crisis: Pluralism, Spiritual Creativity and Healing in Portugal and Greece
SFRH/BPD/72003/2010
Bolseiro de Pós-Doutoramento
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluído
2011/09/01 - 2014/08/31 Religious Boundaries in Transcendence: 'New Age', Pluralism and Spiritual Creativity in contemporary Lisbon
n/a
Bolseiro de Pós-Doutoramento
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Projeto

Designação Financiadores
2023/03/01 - Atual Religion, Spirituality and Wellbeing: a Comparative Approach of Transreligiosity and Crisis in Southern Europe
2022.01229.PTDC
Investigador responsável
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Em curso
2018/09/01 - 2024/08/31 'Transnational Religiosity in southern Europe: an Anthropological Exploration of Spiritual fluidity, Creativity and Transformation in a Changing World'
DL 57/2016/CP1349/CT0006
Investigador responsável
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Em curso
Produções

Publicações

Artigo em revista
  1. Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios; Roussou, Eugenia; Rivadossi, Silvia. "Spiritual Elasticity and Crisis: From Non-Religiosity to Transreligiosity—An Introduction". Religions 15 3 (2024): 373. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel15030373.
    Publicado • 10.3390/rel15030373
  2. Roussou, Eugenia; Roussou, Eugenia. "Creativity, Auto-Ethnography, and the Re-Invention of Sacred Space in New Age Spirituality and Healing during the COVID-19 Pandemic. In Yael Dansac and Nicolas Boissière (eds.), Special Issue ‘Contemporary Paganism and New Age during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Creativity, Adaptation, and Innovation.’ Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 27 (2): 13-28.". Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 27 2 (2023): 13-28.
    Publicado
  3. Roussou, Eugenia. Autor correspondente: Roussou, Eugenia. "'Living Religion between Orthodox Christianity and New Age Spirituality in Greece: Gender and Power. '". Insaniyat-Revue algérienne d'Anthropologie et de Sciences Sociales 95 (2022): 25-39.
    Publicado
  4. Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios; Roussou, Eugenia. "We have always been transreligious: an introduction to transreligiosity.". Social Compass (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00377686221103713.
    Publicado • 10.1177/00377686221103713
  5. Roussou, Eugenia. "Fado, Spirituality and Healing: Sensing, Performing and Embodying Emotion in Lisbon, Portugal.". Trabalhos de Antropologia e Etnologia 62 (2022): 69-90. https://revistataeonline.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/0/2/22023964/fado_eugeniaroussou_tae62.pdf.
    Publicado
  6. Roussou, Eugenia. "Transreligious Shamanism(s): An Introduction (with A. Panagiotopoulos). In special issue 'Transreligious Shamanism(s): Exploring Contemporary Spiritual Practices and Healing,'". Shaman 30 1-2 (2022): 5-20.
    Publicado
  7. Roussou, Eugenia. "Transnational spirituality and healing: an ethnographic exploration of alternative medicine in Lisbon and Athens". Anthropology & Medicine 28 4 (2021): 493-507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2021.1888870.
    Publicado • 10.1080/13648470.2021.1888870
  8. Roussou, Eugenia. "A transformação de religiosidade em Portugal e na Grécia: uma comparação etnográfica da Nova Espiritualidade e pluralismo religioso no sul da Europa". Revista de Estudos da Religião 16 3 (2016): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.21724/rever.v16i3.31182.
    Publicado • 10.21724/rever.v16i3.31182
  9. Roussou, Eugenia. "From socialization to individualization: a new challenge for Portuguese religiosity". Italian Journal of Sociology of Education 7 3 (2015): 89-112.
    Publicado
  10. Roussou, Eugenia. "Believing in the Supernatural through the ‘Evil Eye’: Perception and Science in the Modern Greek Cosmos". Journal of Contemporary Religion 29 3 (2014): 425-438. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2014.945726.
    Publicado • 10.1080/13537903.2014.945726
  11. Roussou, E.. "Orthodoxy at the crossroads: Popular religion and greek identity in the practice of the evil eye". Journal of Mediterranean Studies 20 1 (2011): 85-105. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80053097436&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Capítulo de livro
  1. Roussou, Eugenia. "Religion, Spirituality, Episteme: Transreligious Epistemologies to Health, Wellbeing and COVID-19. In Karen O’brien-Kop and Suzanne Newcombe (eds.), Competing Epistemologies, Religion and Public Health. London: Oxford University Press (forthcoming in 2025).". 2025.
    Aceite para publicação
  2. Roussou, Eugenia. "Kako Mati (Greece), Ch. 14 Informal Care and the End. In Alena Ledenevapp (ed.), The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Vol. 3: A hitchhiker’s guide to informal problem-solving in human life. London: UCL Press, pp. 574-577.". 2024.
    Publicado
  3. Roussou, Eugenia; Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios. "'"Crisis", Affect, Embodiment: Two Auto-Ethnographic Encounters with "Transreligiosity"', (with Anastasios Panagiotopoulos)". In Emily Pierini, Alberto Groisman and Diana Espírito Santo (eds.), Other Worlds, Other Bodies: Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing., 133-152. Berghahn, 2023.
    Publicado
  4. Roussou, Eugenia. Autor correspondente: Roussou, Eugenia. "'Religion and Spirituality in the Public, Private and Remote Space: a Portuguese-Greece Comparison' [in portuguese]". In In Pedro Pereira and José Carlos Loureiro (eds.), Ensaios sobre Comida e sobre Religião.Viana do Castelo, Portugal: Centro de Estudos Regionais., 125-136. Portugal, 2023.
    Publicado
  5. Roussou, Eugenia; Saraiva, Clara; Povedák, István. "Introduction: Expressions of Religion-Ethnography, Performance and the Senses". In Expressions of Religion-Ethnography, Performance and the Senses, editado por Roussou, Eugenia; Saraiva, Clara; Povedák, István. Lit Verlag, 2019.
    Publicado
  6. Roussou, Eugenia. "Spiritual movements in times of crisis: an anthropological account of alternative spirituality in Portugal and Greece". In Minority religions in Europe and the Middle East: mapping and monitoring, editado por George Chryssides, 52-64. Reino Unido: Routledge, 2018.
    Publicado
  7. Roussou, Eugenia. "The Syncretic Religious Landscape of Contemporary Greece and Portugal: A Comparative Approach on Creativity Through Spiritual Synthesis". In Invention of Tradition and Syncretism in Contemporary Religions, editado por Stefania Palmisano and Nicola Pannofino, 155-175. Palgrave McMillan, 2017.
    Publicado • 10.1007/978-3-319-61097-9_7
  8. Roussou, Eugenia. "Spirituality within Religion: Gendered Responses to a Greek 'spiritual revolution'". In Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality, editado por Anna Fedele and Kim Knibbe, 46-61. Routledge, 2013.
    Publicado
  9. Roussou, Eugenia. "The New Age of Greek Orthodoxy: Pluralizing Religiosity in Everyday Practice". In Sites and Politics of Religious Diversity in Southern Europe, 73-92. Brill, 2013.
    10.1163/9789004255241_006
  10. Roussou, Eugenia. "When Soma Encounters the Spiritual Bodily Praxes of Performed Religiosity in Contemporary Greece". In Encounters of Body and Soul in contemporary Religious Practices: Anthropological Reflections. Berghahn, 2011.
    Publicado
Edição de livro
  1. Roussou, Eugenia; Saraiva, Clara; Povedák, István. Expressions of Religion: Ethnography, Performance and the Senses. Lit Verlag. 2019.
    Publicado • Editor
Edição de número de revista
  1. Roussou, Eugenia. "Special Issue: Spiritual Elasticity and Crisis: From Non-religiosity to Transreligiosity (edited by E. Roussou, S. Rivadossi and A. Panagiotopoulos).". (2023): https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Spiritual_Elasticity_Crisis.
    Publicado • Editor
  2. Roussou, Eugenia; Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios. "Transreligious Shamanisms: Exploring Contemporary Spiritual Practices and Healing". Shaman 30 1-2 (2022):
    Publicado • Editor
Entrada de enciclopédia
  1. Roussou, Eugenia. "Kako Mati (Greece)". In Global Informality Project. Global Informality Project, UCL, London, UK., 2020. http://www.in-formality.com/wiki/index.php?title=Kako_mati_(Greece).
    Publicado
Livro
  1. Roussou, Eugenia. Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion: the Evil Eye in Greece. London: Bloomsbury. (paperback version). Bloomsbury. 2022.
    Publicado
  2. Roussou, Eugenia. Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion The Evil Eye in Greece. London: Bloomsbury. Bloomsbury. 2021.
    Publicado
Recurso online
  1. Roussou, Eugenia. Between Portugal and Greece: Boundaries, Exclusions and Everyday Life in times of a Pandemic (in greek). Pontos News - online news site.. 2020. http://www.pontos-news.gr/article/207840/metaxy-portogalias-kai-elladas-oria-apokleismoi-kai-kathimerinotita-se-kairoys.
  2. Roussou, Eugenia. 'Holistic Healing and Wellness in Southern Europe: Practicing virtual (auto)ethnography in pandemic times.' In Online Exhibition ‘COVID-19: Concepts of Sickness and Wellness’, curator responsible: Devorah Romanek, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.. 2020. https://emu-apple-tncb.squarespace.com/wellness-chapter-4.
  3. Roussou, Eugenia. 'The Material Culture of the Evil Eye: Merging Orthodoxy and New Age Spirituality in Greece.' Web blog post. Material Religions. 20 May 2015.. 2015.
Resumo em conferência
  1. SILVA, PAULO HENRIQUE VIEIRA; TORRES, MANOEL GERONIMO LINO; SANTOS, ANDRE; SILVA, JONHATAN MAGNO NORTE DA. "Religiosidade portuguesa em transformação: uma discussão antropológica da 'nova espiritualidade' contemporânea em Lisboa da crise". Trabalho apresentado em I Congresso Lusófono de Ciência das Religiões, 2015.
    Publicado
Revisão de livro
  1. Roussou, Eugenia. "Pierini, Emily. 2020. Jaguars of the Dawn: Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer. London: Berghahn". 11, 1 (2020): 220-221.
    Publicado
  2. Roussou, Eugenia. "Bull, Michael, and Jon P. Mitchell (eds.), 2015, Ritual, Performance and the Senses. London: Bloomsbury". 7, (2016): 147-149.
    Publicado
  3. Roussou, Eugenia. "Victor Roudometof, 2014, Globalization and Orthodox Christianity: The Transformations of a Religious Tradition. New York and London: Routledge". 30, 5 (2015): 490-493.
    Publicado
  4. Roussou, Eugenia. "Anna Fedele, 2013, Looking for Mary Magdalene: An Alternative Pilgrimage and Ritual Creativity at Catholic Shrines in France. Oxford: Oxford University Press". 43, (2014): 843-846.
    Publicado
  5. Roussou, Eugenia. "Maria Koumarianou, 2008, Grave Monuments and the Dead: the imaginary of death in modern Greece". 2, (2011): 1-4.
    Publicado
  6. Roussou, Eugenia. "Kathryn Rountree, 2010, Crafting Contemporary Pagan Identities in a Catholic Society, Surrey and Burlington: Ashgate". 12, 1 (2011): 105-107.
Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

Título da apresentação Nome do evento
Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2024/10 Sustainable Religion, Spirituality and Healing: Re-Inhabiting Sacred Landscapes in southern Europe. International Conference of ReSpell, Theme: ‘Transreligious Practices beyond the dogma: Wellbeing, Healing and Crisis in Southern Europe’, Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece, 3-4 October 2024.
2024/07 Elastic Identities, Religio-Spiritual Selves: Emptying, Filling, Transforming in Contemporary Religiosity. 18th EASA Biennial Conference, Theme: ‘Doing and Undoing with Anthropology’, University of Barcelona, Spain, 23-26 July 2024.
2024/06 Transreligious Traces of (Neo)Shamanism: Elasticity, Affect, Creativity. ISARS Conference 2024, Theme: ‘Tracing Shamanism: Presence, Absence, Transformations, Possibilities’, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, 5-8 June 2024.
2024/02/27 Sensing, Resisting, Transforming ‘Home’: Elasticity, (Auto-)biography, Performativity in Religio-Spiritual Healing. 1st Workshop of ReSpell ‘Sensing the Field of Contemporary Religiosity: Auto-Ethnography, Collaboration, Transformation’, online, 27 February 2024.
2023/06/23 Practices of Transreligiosity and Well-Being in Portugal: two ethnographic examples. (with Joana Martins, in portuguese). 8o Conference of RELIMM - Religiões nas Múltiplas Religiosidades, 22-23 June 2023, Lisbon, Portugal.
2023/05/27 Epistemologies of Contemporary Spirituality and Healing after Covid: Pluralising Afflictions, Competing Beliefs. Paper in conference ‘Beliefs, Religious Worldviews and Public Health after Covid: Plural/Competing Epistemologies’, organised by Suzanne Newcombe and Karen O’brien-Kop and funded by the British Academy/Wellcome Trust, London, UK, 26-27 May 2023.
2022/09/09 Transreligiosity as an analytic tool to study the elasticity of contemporary religiosity (with A. Panagiotopoulos). 8th APA Congress, Évora, Portugal, 6-9 September 2022.
2022 Consuming the Sacred in Holistic Spirituality and Healing: an ethnographic example from Greece and Portugal. Paper in workshop ‘The Substances that Feed Us – Food and the Sacred in Various Contexts’, organised by Joana Bahia and Giovanna Capponi, 6 October 2022, online.
2021/09/02 Practising and Researching New Age during the COVID-19 Pandemic: (Spi)Ritual Creativity, Auto-Ethnography, and the Re-Invention of Sacred Space. EASR2021, 8th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions, 30 August – 3 September 2021, Pisa, Italy and online.
2020 ROUSSOU, Eugenia, 2020, "An Ethnographic Encounter with 'Transreligiosity': Embodying Spirituality, Resisting Epistemology", 16th EASA Biennial Conference, Virtual Lisbon conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 20-24 July 2020.
2019 "Transnational' spirituality and the 'sacred self': an ethnographic account of 'alternative' healing in southern Europe." 14th SIEF Congress
(Santiago de Compostela, Espanha)
2019 'Anthropology of Religion "at home": ethnographic and epistemological challenges of studying contemporary spirituality in southern Europe.' 7th APA Congresso
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2019 'The Spirit of the Shaman: sensing shamanic cosmologies through ethnographic embodiment.' 3rd International Conference of the International Society for Academic Study on Shamanism (ISARS)
(Santiago, Chile)
2017 ‘From the “evil eye” to energetic therapies: an ethnographic approach of alternative medicine in Greece’. Invited Lecture, Seminar Series, Institute of Mediterranean Studies.
(Grécia)
2017 ‘The individualization of religious identity in southern Europe: pluralism, creativity and spiritual therapies in Portugal and Greece’. Invited Lecture, Departmental Seminar Series, Department of Anthropology, Panteion University of Athens.
(Grécia)
2016 ‘Contesting Religious Authority Through Alternative Healing in Portugal and Greece.’ EASR 2016 conference, Theme: Relocating Religion
(Finlândia)
2016 ‘Spirituality and Healing in Portugal and Greece: a comparative approach of alternative therapeutics.’ 12th International Conference of the SIEF Working Group Ethnology of Religion, Theme: Alternative and Religious Healing in the Modern World.
(Países Baixos)
2016 ‘Religious Syncretism and alternative therapies in Portugal and Greece: the “New Age” phenomenon under an ethnographic gaze’. Invited Lecture, Departmental Seminar Series, Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly.
(Grécia)
2015 ‘Reflecting upon religious heritage and spiritual utopia in Portugal and Greece.’ SIEF2015 12th Congress, Theme: Utopias, Realities, Heritages. Ethnographies for the 21st century.
(Croácia)
2015 ‘Shamanism as/in ‘New Age’: transforming religious tradition in southern Europe.’ 12th International Conference of the International Society for Academic Study on Shamanism (ISARS), Theme: Sacred Landscapes and Conflict Transformation. History, Space, Place and Power in Shamanism
(Grécia)
2015 'Religiosidade portuguesa em transformação: uma discussão antropológica da ''nova espiritualidade'' contemporânea em Lisboa da crise' I Congresso Lusófono de Ciência das Religiões
(Portugal)
2014 ‘Religious pluralism and new forms of spirituality in Southern Europe.' Invited Lecture, Departmental Lecture, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus
(Chipre)
2014 ‘Searching for the “supernatural” through the senses: a comparative ethnographic approach of alternative practices in Portugal and Greece.’ Seminar Series: ‘Anthropological and interdisciplinary approaches of the senses and emotions’
Greek Society of Ethnology. (Grécia)
2014 ‘Spiritual movements in times of crisis: an anthropological account of esotericism in Portugal and Greece.’ Inform Anniversary Conference, Theme: Minority Religions: Contemplating the Past and Anticipating the Future
(Reino Unido)
2014 ‘Making Sense of contemporary Portuguese religiosity: perception, ritual performance, and spiritual healing in Lisbon.’ 11th Conference of the SIEF Working Group on Ethnology of Religion, Theme: Making Sense of Religion Performance, Art and Experience.
(Portugal)
2013 ‘The transformation of ‘medical expertise’ in Lisbon, Portugal: reinventing the healer-patient relationship through complementary healing.’ Conference ‘Encounters and Engagements: Creating New Agendas for Medical Anthropology’. EASA-Medical Anthropology Network, AAA-Society for Medical Anthropology and URV.
(Espanha)
2013 ‘An ethnographer’ s dilemma: investigating religious creativity in Lisbon.’ V Conference of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology (APA), Theme: Anthropology in Counterpoint
(Portugal)
2012 ‘Creating certainty within European uncertainty: practising spirituality in present-day Lisbon'. 12th Biennial EASA conference, Theme: Uncertainty and disquiet.
2012 ‘Beyond secularism, past religion: a new beginning for Portuguese religiosity.’ EASR 2012 (European Association for the Study of Religions)

Orientação

Título / Tema
Papel desempenhado 		Curso (Tipo)
Instituição / Organização
2023/07 - 2026 BENZIMENTOS EM PORTUGAL: Uma análise contemporânea sobre a magia de cura (título provisório)
Orientador
2023/03 - 2024/02 Supervisor to Denise Araujo Pedron, Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, CRIA-ISCTE, June-November 2023, Lisbon, Portugal.
Orientador
2022/01/31 - 2023/01/31 Principal Supervisor for the 1st year of the doctoral program of Lisa Spinelli, PhD program ISCTE/NOVA, host institution: Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau (CCCM), PhD thesis provisionally entitled: Transnational Music Rituals: Creativity, Spirituality and Well-Being between Europe and Asia’.
Orientador
2020/11/01 - 2021/06/30 Supervisor to Lisa Spinelli (Utrecht University), visiting MA researcher at CRIA, with the MA thesis project entitled: 'Spirituality in Contemporary Europe: Popular Beliefs and Practices among Portuguese Fado Practitioners', November 2020 - June 2021.
Orientador
2019/02 - 2019/05 Supervisor to the visiting PhD candidate Borja Andino-Martin, do Department of Social Anthropology and Social Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, with the provisional thesis entitled: 'Health, Illness, and Care Process in Christianity in Madrid: A Multiple Case of Study.'
Orientador
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Organização de evento

Nome do evento
Tipo de evento (Tipo de participação) 		Instituição / Organização
2024/10 - 2024/10 International Conference of ReSpell: ‘Transreligious Practices beyond the dogma: Wellbeing, Healing and Crisis in Southern Europe’. Member of organizing and scientific committee, Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece, 3-4 October 2024. (2024/10 - 2024/10)
Congresso (Presidente da Comissão Organizadora)
2024/07 - 2024/07 The Metaphysics of non-identity: religio-spiritual techniques of emptying. Panel organization (with Anastasios Panagiotopoulos), 18th EASA Biennial Conference: ‘Doing and Undoing with Anthropology’, University of Barcelona, 23-26 July 2024. (2024/07 - 2024/07)
2024/06/18 - 2024/06/18 2nd Workshop of ReSpell: Experienciar Práticas Quotidianas de Espiritualidade e Bem-Estar em Portugal: Um Workshop Interativo (Experiencing Everyday Practices of Spirituality and Well-Being in Portugal: An Interactive Workshop). Lisbon, Portugal, 18 June 2024. (2024/06/18 - 2024/06/18)
Oficina (workshop) (Presidente da Comissão Organizadora)
2024/06 - 2024/06 International Conference of the International Society for Academic Study on Shamanism (ISARS). Member of organizing and scientific committee, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, 5-8 June 2024. (2024/06 - 2024/06)
Congresso (Membro da Comissão Científica)
2024/02/27 - 2024/02/27 1st Workshop of ReSpell ‘Sensing the Field of Contemporary Religiosity: Auto-Ethnography, Collaboration, Transformation’. Member of organizing and scientific committee, online, 27 February 2024. (2024/02/27 - 2024/02/27)
Oficina (workshop) (Presidente da Comissão Organizadora)
2024/02/02 - 2024/02/02 WebiNAR: ‘Contested heritage: UNESCO, franciscan convents, druids and shamanism in Sintra’. Organization of webinar with Prof. Clara Saraiva, NAR-CRIA, online, 2 February 2024. (2024/02/02 - 2024/02/02)
Seminário
2022/10/28 - 2022/10/28 Roundtable ‘Ayahuasca and its legal challenges: a debate’, ISCTE, Lisbon, 28 October 2022. (2022/10/28 - 2022/10/28)
2022/09/09 - 2022/09/09 Challenges, Uncertainties and Resistances in Contemporary Religion and Spirituality (with A. Panagiotopoulos). 8th APA Congress, Évora, Portugal, 9 September 2022. (2022/09/09 - 2022/09/09)
Congresso (Coorganizador)
2022 - 2022 Ongoing Webinar Series of NAR-Núcleo de Antropologia da Religião (Network for the Anthropology of Religion), Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA), organized monthly, January 2022 to date, Lisbon, Portugal (2022 - 2022)
2021/12/09 - 2021/12/09 'Encounters Between Academics and Religious Practitioners.' Seminar organized in collaboration with NAR, Dr. Ana Stela Cunha and the Kazumba Association, ISCTE, Lisbon and online, 9 December 2021. (2021/12/09 - 2021/12/09)
Encontro (Coorganizador)
2021/03 - 2021/12 Ongoing Webinar Series of NAR-Núcleo de Antropologia da Religião (Network for the Anthropology of Religion), Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA), organized monthly, March 2021 to date, Lisbon, Portugal (2021/03)
Seminário (Coorganizador)
 Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2021/11/30 - 2021/11/30 Organiser of the Roundtable 'What is New about Neo-Shamanism?', co-organization of NAR-CRIA and ISARS, 30 November 2021, online. (2021/11/30 - 2021/11/30)
Mesa-redonda
2021/06/29 - 2021/06/29 'Exploring Sacred Landscapes: Religio-Spiritual Challenges, Environmental Challenges'. One-day Conference, organized by NAR-Núcleo de Antropologia da Religião (Network for the Anthropology of Religion), Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA). Member of the Organizing and Scientific Committee (with Joana Martins, Anastasios Panagiotopoulos, Anna Fedele). Lisbon, Portugal, 29 June 2021. (2021/06/29)
Conferência (Coorganizador)
2019/11/27 - 2019/11/30 3rd International Congress of ISARS (International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism): 'Relations, connections, cosmologies: shamanism and spirit possession under the ethnographic lens', Santiago de Chile (cancelled, due to political unsettlement and riots) (2019/11/27 - 2019/11/30)
Congresso (Membro da Comissão Científica)
2019/06/04 - 2019/06/07 Panel Organized (with Anastasios Panagiotopoulos), 'Anthropology of Religion in the contemporary world: contemplating upon the new challenges in the study of religiosity, spirituality and the sacred.' 7th APA Congress, 4-7 June 2019, Universidade Nova Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. (2019 - 2019)
2019/04/14 - 2019/04/17 Panel organized 'Fluidity and transformation in contemporary religiosity: re-tracking the sacred in a changing world',(with Denise Lombardi) at the 14th SIEF Congress, 4-17 April 2019, Theme: Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World. Santiago de Compostela, Spain. (2019/04/14 - 2019/04/17)
2015/10/09 - 2015/10/13 Member of the organizing commitee of the 12th Congress of ISARS- International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism: 'Sacred Landscapes and Conflict Transformation: History, Space, Place and Power in Shamanism', Delphi, Greece. (2015/10/09)
Congresso (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)
2015/06/21 - 2015/06/25 Panel organized: “From religious heritages to spiritual utopias: reflecting upon religiosity of the 21st century”, organizado (with Ana Clot Garrell) at the SIEF2015 12th Congress, Theme: Utopias, Realities, Heritages. Ethnographies for the 21st century’, Zagreb, Croatia. (2015)
2014/05/22 - 2014/05/23 Co-organizer of the 11ª International Congress of the group SIEF Ethnology of Religion: 'Making Sense of Religion: Performance, Art and Experience', Lisbon, Portugal (2014/05/22)
Congresso (Coorganizador)
2013/09/08 - 2013/09/11 Panel organized ‘Creativity and Improvisation in contemporary Religious Experience’, (with Clara Saraiva) at the V Conference of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology, Vila Real, Portugal. (2013)
Outro (Coorganizador)
2012/08/23 - 2012/08/26 Panel organized ‘Beyond Secularism: emerging religiosities in Europe’, 2012 EASR (European Association for the Study of Religion) conference, Stockholm, Sweden. (2012)
Outro
2012/07/10 - 2012/07/13 Panel organized ‘Challenging religiosity in an uncertain Europe: the role of “New Spirituality” (with Katerina Ferkov) at the 12th EASA biennial conference, 10-13 July 2012, Paris, France. (2012/07/10)
Outro (Coorganizador)

Participação em evento

Descrição da atividade
Tipo de evento 		Nome do evento
Instituição / Organização
2022/06/17 - 2022/06/18 Participation in the workshop ‘Moving and Being Moved: Healing, Conversion, Trance and Transnationalism’, organised by the HEAL Network for the Ethnography of Healing and the Marie Sklodowska-Curie project THETRANCE. University of Oxford and online, 17-18 June 2022.
Oficina (workshop)
2021/12/02 - 2021/12/02 'Religion and Spirituality in the Public, Private and Remote Space: a Portuguese-Greece Comparison'. Participation in the Roundtable 'Space in religion and religion in space', organized by the Centro de Estudos Regionais, the Núcleo Antropologia da Religião/CRIA and the Bachelor’s Course Design de Ambientes at IPVC, 2 December 2021, Portugal.
Mesa-redonda
2019/10/30 - 2019/10/30 Coordination of the round table ‘Olhares que Ouvem: uma conversa musical’, Festival ‘Olhares do Mediterrâneo’, org. Associação Cultural Luso-Grega Parafonia, 30 October 2019.
Mesa-redonda

Júri de grau académico

Tema
Tipo de participação 		Nome do candidato (Tipo de grau)
Instituição / Organização
2023/09 Member of PhD Thesis Committee. Thesis title: Connecting With the Great Mother, Regenerating Us: Environmental Activism, Gender Relations and Power Dynamics in Contemporary Paganism in Portugal, PhD Candidate: Joana Rita Rosa Martins, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal.
Vogal
 Joana Martins (Doutoramento)
2023/09 Member of PhD Thesis Committee. Thesis title: ‘The narrow gate’: Radical participation, conversion and analysis in a mystagogic autoethnography, PhD candidate: Luiz Muñoz Villalón, University of Seville, Spain.
Vogal
 Luiz Muñoz Villalón (Doutoramento)
Universidad de Sevilla, Espanha
2022 Jury Member, Yearly Evaluation Report, for the doctoral project of Joana Martins, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal. Joana Martins (Doutoramento)
2021 Jury Member, Yearly Evaluation Report, for the doctoral project of Joana Martins, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal. Joana Martins (Doutoramento)
2020/07/09 Eugenia Roussou (arguente), prova de mestrado em ANTROPOLOGIA - Temas Contemporâneos, da candidata Ana Rita Correia Martins de Barros Duarte, "Teias que se tecem no tempo: do uso mágico das plantas às relações coma natureza, modos de saber, modos de fazer na comunidade pagã", orientadoras: Amélia Frazão Moreira e Clara Saraiva, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, 9 de julho de 2020.
Arguente principal
 Ana Rita Martins (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2020 Jury Member, Yearly Evaluation Report, for the doctoral project of Joana Martins, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal. Joana Martins (Doutoramento)
2019/06/24 Jury Member, Evaluation Panel of the public defense of the doctoral project (1st to 2nd year) of PhD candidate Joana Rita Rosa Martins, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal Joana Martins (Doutoramento)

Arbitragem científica em conferência

Nome da conferência Local da conferência
2023/08 - 2024/06 International Conference of the International Society for Academic Study on Shamanism (ISARS). Member of organizing and scientific committee, Rome, Italy, 5-8 June 2024.
2023/01 - 2023/05 Workshop ‘Heritage and Religion in South Asia and its Diasporas: Frictions, Entanglements and Reconfigurations.’ Member of organizing and scientific committee, online, 29-30 June 2023. CEAS and NAR, CRIA
2022/08/25 - 2022/08/28 International Conference of the International Society for Academic Study on Shamanism (ISARS). Member of organizing and scientific committee, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia, 25-28 August 2022. ISARS and Sarawak Museum
2021 - 2022/08 4rth International Conference of the International Society for Academic Study on Shamanism (ISARS). Museum of Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Arbitragem científica em revista

Nome da revista (ISSN) Editora
2024 - Atual Member of Scientific and Editorial Committee, Quotidiana: Journal for the Study of Lived Religion, Center for the Study of Lived Religion at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

Curso / Disciplina lecionado

Disciplina Curso (Tipo) Instituição / Organização
2024/03/21 - 2034/03/21 Invited class lecture: ‘From traditional religious cure to globalized spiritual cure: an ethnographic approach to the epistemologies of the evil eye in the Greek context’, PhD course ‘Regional Approaches’, Prof. Nélia Dias, ISCTE-IUL PhD programme, 21 March 2024, Lisbon, Portugal. (Doutoramento)
2024/05/08 - 2024/05/08 Invited lecturer in the context of the course ‘Anthropological Researches’, ISCTE-IUL PhD programme, Prof. Miguel Vale de Almeida and Prof. Catarina Frois, 8 May 2024, Lisbon, Portugal. (Doutoramento)
2024/01/29 - 2024/01/29 Invited class lecture: ‘An Introduction to contemporary religion, spirituality and wellbeing: thinking anthropologically through transreligious practices’, course ‘Anthropology of Religions’, Dr. Caio Novaes, Open University, 29 January 2024, Lisbon, Portugal.
2022/07/20 - 2022/07/27 Lecturer at the Summer School ‘Religion in the Public Domain’, 20-27 July 2022, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
2022/01/21 - 2022/01/21 Invited Lecturer, 'The Evil Eye: from Greek folk culture to globalized culture', course lecturer: Maria Margaroni, School of Modern Greek Language of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 21 January 2022 (online).
2021/11/23 - 2021/11/23 'Contemporary Debates about transnational religion, spirituality and healing: "lived religion" in southern Europe.' Course 'Debates in Anthropology', part of the ISCTE-NOVA PhD Program, 23 November 2021, Lisbon, Portugal. (Doutoramento) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Antropologia Social, Portugal
2021/10/30 - 2021/10/30 'Contemporary Spirituality, New Age and "spiritual revolution" in southern Europe.' Course 'Sociology of Religion', Dr Victor Roudometof, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus, 30 October 2021, virtual class. (Bachelor) Panepistemio Kyprou Tmema Koinonikon kai Politikon Epistemon, Chipre
2020/08/03 - 2020/08/04 Lecturer at the Summer School ‘Public Anthropology and the ethnographic challenges in context of social intervention.’ 3 and 4 August 2020, CRIA, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal.
2019/12/16 - 2019/12/16 Invited Lecturer, course 'Collaborative Methodologies in Anthropology', doctoral course, Professor Brian O'Neill, 16 December 2019, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal.
2019/07/13 - 2019/07/17 Lecturer at the Summer School ‘Religion in Public Spaces’, 13-17 July 2019, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
2018/03/13 - 2018/03/13 Invited Lecturer. “Contemporary Religiosity in the Mediterranean: an anthropological approach of religion and spirituality in Greece and Portugal.” Course ‘Anthropological approaches in Greece and the Mediterranean’, Dr Rania Astrinaki, Erasmus programme, Department of Anthropology, Panteion University, 13 March 2018, Athens, Greece.
2017/11/09 - 2017/11/09 Invited Lecturer. ‘Contemporary issues on religion, spirituality and healing Part II: Holistic Spirituality and Alternative Therapies.’ Course ‘Contemporary Issues in Social Anthropology’, Dr Diana Riboli, Erasmus programme, Department of Anthropology, Panteion University, 9 November 2017, Athens, Greece.
2017/10/19 - 2017/10/19 Invited Lecturer. ‘Contemporary issues on religion, spirituality and healing Part I: Exploring Religious Pluralism.’ Course ‘Contemporary Issues in Social Anthropology’, Dr Diana Riboli, Erasmus programme, Department of Anthropology, Panteion University, 19 October 2017, Athens, Greece.
2016/05/09 - 2016/05/09 Guest Lecturer. Class Theme taught: ‘Anthropology at Home: Reflexivity, Bi-Subjectivity and the use of the Senses as Methodological Tools’. Course: Methodology of Social Anthropology, Dr. Diana Riboli, Department of Anthropology, Panteion University, 9 May 2016, Athens, Greece.
2016/04/21 - 2016/04/21 Guest Lecturer. Class Theme taught: ‘The “western” globalization of “indigenous” spiritual traditions: looking for spiritual “authenticity” through neo/shamanism, New Age, and spiritism.’ Course: Indigenous Cultures, Sustainability and Globalization, Dr. Diana Riboli, Department of Anthropology, Panteion University, 21 April 2016, Athens, Greece.
2014 - 2015 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University, Athens, Greece. Course: Medical Anthropology, Erasmus Program, co-taught with Professor Athena Athanasiou. 2014-2015
2014/12/11 - 2014/12/11 Guest Lecturer. Class Theme taught: ‘Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the “western” world: from the “evil eye” to “New Age” energetic therapies.’ Course: Ethnomedicine, Dr. Diana Riboli, Department of Anthropology, Panteion University, 11 December 2014, Athens, Greece.
2013/07/11 - 2013/07/17 Lecturer at the Summer School ‘Religion in the Public Domain’, 11-17 July 2013, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.

Entrevista (jornal / revista)

Descrição da atividade Jornal / Forum
2023/11/12 Podcast Interview for the Series 'Greek Chic', Constantina Voulgaris, LIFO magazine, 12/11/2023. LIFO, Athens, Greece
2020/12/23 Eugenia Roussou, Interview for the article: "Quando voltaremos a abraçar-nos?", Weekend, Jornal de Negócios, 23 December 2020. Jornal de Negócios

Entrevista / Programa (rádio / tv)

Programa Tema
2023/02/05 - 2023/02/05 Interview and Open Discussion, ‘How to Heal Through Spirituality?’ Olissipo #9, 5 February 2023.
2022/11/29 - 2022/11/29 Podcast Interview, New Books Network, Series: New Books in Religion, 29 November 2022
2021/05/27 - 2021/05/27 Interview for the research reportage ‘Eco da Alma’ [‘The Echo of the Soul’] on the theme of popularity of contemporary spirituality, programme ‘Linha da Frente’, channel RTP1 (national Portuguese television), 27 May 2021.

Membro de associação

Nome da associação Tipo de participação
2021 - Atual Member of HEAL-Network for the Ethnography of Healing.
2015 - Atual ISARS-International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism
2014 - Atual SIEF- International Society for Ethnology and Folklore
2013 - Atual APA-Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia
2010 - Atual Greek Society of Ethnology
2006 - Atual EASA-European Association of Social Anthropologists

Membro de comissão

Descrição da atividade
Tipo de participação 		Instituição / Organização
2023/08 - Atual Member of Editorial Committee Board, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Springer Nature.
2020 - Atual Reviews Editor, Journal Religion and Society: Advances in Research.
2018 - Atual Member of the Editorial Board of the academic journal 'Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change'.
Membro
2017 - Atual Associate Research Fellow, CRAFT (Contemporary Religions and Faiths in Transition), Centre for the study of contemporary religions and spiritualities, Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin.
2015 - Atual Member of the Scientific Committee of ISARS (International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism).
Membro
2015 - Atual Member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journal 'Shaman' - Journal of the International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism.
Membro
2015 - 2017 Member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journal 'European Journal of Sociology and Anthropology'.
Membro

Outro júri / avaliação

Descrição da atividade Instituição / Organização
2022 - 2022 Jury Member, Evaluation Committee for the selection of a PhD candidate, Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2019/04 - 2019/04 Juri Member, Comittee for the Evaluation of a selection of a post-doctoral researcher for the project HERA: 'HERILIGION: The heritagization of religion and the sacralization of heritage in contemporary Europe', abril de 2019, Lisboa, Portugal.
Distinções

Prémio

2024 Award for best published peer-reviewed article, Scientific Awards of ISCTE-IUL (Prémio ID ISCTE), Lisbon, Portugal.
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023 2023 ISCTE-IUL Award (Prémio ID ISCTE) for best article
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Outra distinção

2017 Fieldwork Grant
2015 Fieldwork Grant
2015 Wenner-Gren Foundation EASA conference fee waiver
2014 Academic Training Grant
2005 Fieldwork Research Bursary
2004 'Damianakos Prize'