Curriculum Vitae
Eugenia Roussou
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Eugenia Roussou
- Gender
- Female
Citation names
- Roussou, Eugenia
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 111B-2634-5A2F
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-9018-7128
- Google Scholar ID
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ta7ng1QAAAAJ&hl=el
Email addresses
- jennyroussou@gmail.com (Professional)
- Eugenia.Roussou@iscte-iul.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- CRIA - Centro em Rede de Investigacao de Antropologia, Av. Forças Armadas, Edifício ISCTE-IUL, sala 2W2, 1649-026, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/authors/eugenia-roussou/cv (Professional)
- https://www.cria.org.pt/pt/people/eugenia-roussou (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Greek (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| Portuguese | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Elementary (A2) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2004/09/01 - 2010/03/28
Concluded
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PhD in Social Anthropology (Doctor)
Major in Antropologia Social
University College London, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
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2003/09/01 - 2004/09/01
Concluded
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MA in Social Anthropology (Master)
Goldsmiths University of London Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
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1999/09/01 - 2003/07/24
Concluded
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BA in History and Social Anthropology (Bachelor)
University of Thessaly Department of History Archaeology and Social Anthropology, Greece
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2018/09/01 - Current | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal |
| 2017/01/09 - 2018/08/31 | Researcher (Research) | Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal |
| 2011/09/01 - 2017/08/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal |
| 2014/09 - 2015/03 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Panteion Panepistemio Koinonikon kai Politikon Epistemon, Greece |
Positions / Appointments
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2019 - Current | Coordinator of Núcleo de Antropologia da Religião (Network for the Anthropology of Religion), NAR-CRIA | Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2014/09/01 - 2017/08/31 | Religion in/of Crisis: Pluralism, Spiritual Creativity and Healing in Portugal and Greece
SFRH/BPD/72003/2010
Post-doc Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2011/09/01 - 2014/08/31 | Religious Boundaries in Transcendence: 'New Age', Pluralism and Spiritual Creativity in contemporary Lisbon
n/a
Post-doc Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2023/03/01 - Current | Religion, Spirituality and Wellbeing: a Comparative Approach of Transreligiosity and Crisis in Southern Europe
Principal investigator
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 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
Principal investigator
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
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Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 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, Spain)
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| 2019 | 'Anthropology of Religion "at home": ethnographic and epistemological challenges of studying contemporary spirituality in southern Europe.' | 7th APA Congresso
(Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 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)
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| 2017 | ‘From the “evil eye” to energetic therapies: an ethnographic approach of alternative medicine in Greece’. | Invited Lecture, Seminar Series, Institute of Mediterranean Studies.
(Greece)
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| 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.
(Greece)
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| 2016 | ‘Contesting Religious Authority Through Alternative Healing in Portugal and Greece.’ | EASR 2016 conference, Theme: Relocating Religion
(Finland)
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| 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.
(Netherlands)
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| 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.
(Greece)
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| 2015 | ‘Reflecting upon religious heritage and spiritual utopia in Portugal and Greece.’ | SIEF2015 12th Congress, Theme: Utopias, Realities, Heritages. Ethnographies for the 21st century.
(Croatia)
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| 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
(Greece)
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| 2015 | 'Religiosidade portuguesa em transformação: uma discussão antropológica da ''nova espiritualidade'' contemporânea em Lisboa da crise' | I Congresso Lusófono de Ciência das Religiões
(Portugal)
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| 2014 | ‘Religious pluralism and new forms of spirituality in Southern Europe.' | Invited Lecture, Departmental Lecture, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus
(Cyprus)
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| 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. (Greece)
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| 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
(United Kingdom)
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| 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)
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| 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.
(Spain)
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| 2013 | ‘An ethnographer’ s dilemma: investigating religious creativity in Lisbon.’ | V Conference of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology (APA), Theme: Anthropology in Counterpoint
(Portugal)
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| 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) |
Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2023/07 - 2026 | BENZIMENTOS EM PORTUGAL: Uma análise contemporânea sobre a magia de cura (título provisório)
Supervisor
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| 2023/03 - 2024/02 | Supervisor to Denise Araujo Pedron, Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, CRIA-ISCTE, June-November 2023, Lisbon, Portugal.
Supervisor
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| 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’.
Supervisor
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| 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.
Supervisor
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| 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.'
Supervisor
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Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 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)
Congress (President of the Organising Committee)
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| 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)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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| 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)
Congress (Member of the Scientific Committee)
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| 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)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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| 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)
Seminar
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| 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)
Congress (Co-organisor)
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| 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)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
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| 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)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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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)
Round table
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| 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)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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| 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)
Congress (Member of the Scientific Committee)
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| 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)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
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| 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)
Congress (Co-organisor)
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| 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)
Other (Co-organisor)
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| 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)
Other
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| 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)
Other (Co-organisor)
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Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 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.
Workshop
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| 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.
Round table
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| 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.
Round table
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Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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| 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.
Thesis Member
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Joana Martins (PhD) |
| 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.
Thesis Member
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Luiz Muñoz Villalón (PhD)
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
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| 2022 | Jury Member, Yearly Evaluation Report, for the doctoral project of Joana Martins, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal. | Joana Martins (PhD) |
| 2021 | Jury Member, Yearly Evaluation Report, for the doctoral project of Joana Martins, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal. | Joana Martins (PhD) |
| 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.
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Ana Rita Martins (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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| 2020 | Jury Member, Yearly Evaluation Report, for the doctoral project of Joana Martins, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal. | Joana Martins (PhD) |
| 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 (PhD) |
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2021 - Current | Member of HEAL-Network for the Ethnography of Healing. | |
| 2015 - Current | ISARS-International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism | |
| 2014 - Current | SIEF- International Society for Ethnology and Folklore | |
| 2013 - Current | APA-Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia | |
| 2010 - Current | Greek Society of Ethnology | |
| 2006 - Current | EASA-European Association of Social Anthropologists |
Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2023/08 - Current | Member of Editorial Committee Board, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Springer Nature. | |
| 2020 - Current | Reviews Editor, Journal Religion and Society: Advances in Research. | |
| 2018 - Current | Member of the Editorial Board of the academic journal 'Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change'.
Member
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| 2017 - Current | 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 - Current | Member of the Scientific Committee of ISARS (International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism).
Member
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| 2015 - Current | Member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journal 'Shaman' - Journal of the International Society for Academic Research
on Shamanism.
Member
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| 2015 - 2017 | Member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journal 'European Journal of Sociology and Anthropology'.
Member
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Conference scientific committee
| Conference name | Conference host | |
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| 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 |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 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, Cyprus |
| 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. |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
| Activity description | Newspaper / 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 |
Interview (tv / radio show)
| Program | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 - Current | 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. |
Other jury / evaluation
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
Distinctions
Award
| 2024 | Award for best published peer-reviewed article, Scientific Awards of ISCTE-IUL (Prémio ID ISCTE), Lisbon, Portugal.
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
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| 2023 | 2023 ISCTE-IUL Award (Prémio ID ISCTE) for best article
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
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Other distinction
| 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' |