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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Emily Pierini

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6214-2359-8DC8
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0709-0427
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/01/07 - Current Researcher (Research) Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
2022/01/24 - 2022/07/24 Visiting Researcher (Research) University of Oxford, United Kingdom
University of Oxford School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, United Kingdom
2020/07/01 - 2022/06/30 Visiting Researcher (Research) Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Programa de Pós-graduação em Antropologia Social - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
2013/09 - 2020 Researcher (Research) University of Wales Trinity Saint David - Lampeter Campus, United Kingdom
University of Wales Trinity Saint David - Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre, United Kingdom
2009 - 2010 Visiting Researcher (Research) Universidade de São Paulo Faculdade de Medicina, Brazil

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/09/04 - 2020/06/30 Lecturer (University Teacher) The American University of Rome, Italy
The American University of Rome, Italy
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020 - 2023 Marie Curie IF - THETRANCE - Transnational Healing: Therapeutic Trajectories in Spiritual Trance
grant agreement No 895395
 European Commission

Contract

Designation Funders
2009/11 - 2010/06 Brazilian National Survey of Afro-Brazilian Religions in the Federal District INRC
Nº 01551.000479/2009-57
Supervisor
Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, Brazil
 Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Jaguars of the Dawn: Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer. United Kingdom. 2020.
Book chapter
  1. "Categorie Evanescenti: Le Pratiche Medianiche nel Meshwork Religioso Brasiliano". In Definire il Pluralismo Religioso, edited by Alessandro Saggioro, 143-152. Brescia, Italy: Morcelliana, 2020.
    Published
  2. "Incontri Incorporati: Pratiche Medianiche e Etnografia del Sentire". In Corpi Sciamanici: La Nozione di Persona nello Studio dello Sciamanesimo, edited by Sergio Botta; Marianna Ferrara, 137-156. Rome, Italy: Nuova Cultura, 2017.
    Published
  3. Emily Pierini. "Becoming a Jaguar: Spiritual Routes in the Vale do Amanhecer". In Handbook of Contemporary Religions in Brazil, edited by Bettina Schmidt; Steven Engler, 225-232. Leiden, Netherlands: BRILL, 2016.
    10.1163/9789004322134_014
  4. Pierini, Emily. "Fieldwork and Embodied Knowledge: Researching the Experiences of Spirit Mediums in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer". In The Study of Religious Experience: Approaches and Methodologies, edited by Bettina Schmidt, 50-70. London, United Kingdom: Equinox, 2016.
    Published
Book review
  1. "Spirituality and Wellbeing: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Religion and Health". Review of Spirituality and Wellbeing: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Religion and Health 36, 2 (2021): 385-387.
    Published • 10.1080/13537903.2021.1898163
Journal article
  1. Emily Pierini. "Transnational mediumship and the development of a transhistorical self in the Vale do Amanhecer". Social Compass 68 2 (2021): 218-230. https://doi.org/10.1177/00377686211010685.
    10.1177/00377686211010685
  2. Emily Pierini. "Spirituality and Wellbeing: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Religious Experience and Health". Journal of Contemporary Religion (2021): https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2021.1898163.
    10.1080/13537903.2021.1898163
  3. Emily Pierini. "Healing and Therapeutic Trajectories Among the Spirit Mediums of the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer". International Journal of Latin American Religions 2 2 (2018): 272-289. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41603-018-0054-5.
    10.1007/s41603-018-0054-5
  4. "Embodied Encounters: Ethnographic Knowledge, Emotion and Senses in the Vale do Amanhecer’s Spirit Mediumship". Journal for the Study of Religious Experience 2 (2016): 25-49. https://rerc-journal.tsd.ac.uk/index.php/religiousexp/article/view/23.
    Open access • Published
  5. Emily Pierini; Alberto Groisman. "Introduction. Fieldwork in Religion: Bodily Experience and Ethnographic Knowledge". Journal for the Study of Religious Experience 2 (2016): 1-6. https://rerc-journal.tsd.ac.uk/index.php/religiousexp/article/view/27.
    Open access • Published
  6. Emily Pierini. "Becoming a Spirit Medium: Initiatory Learning and the Self in the Vale do Amanhecer". Ethnos 81 2 (2014): 290-314. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F00141844.2014.929598.
    10.1080/00141844.2014.929598
Journal issue
  1. Emily Pierni; Alberto Groisman. "Fieldwork in Religion: Bodily Experience and Ethnographic Knowledge". Journal for the Study of Religious Experience 2 (2016): https://rerc-journal.tsd.ac.uk/index.php/religiousexp/issue/view/4.
    Published • Invited editor
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2021/11 Healing, Transnationalism and the Transhitorical Self of the Vale do Amanhecer Conference on Spiritual Historicities: Exploring Micro-Historical Practices and Alternative Temporal Directions in Contemporary Religiosities
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile)
2021/09/23 L’Esperienza come Percorso verso la Consilienza? Guarigione e Trance Medianica nello Spiritismo Brasiliano, Congresso della Società Italiana di Antropologia Culturale (SIAC)
Sapienza Università di Roma (Roma, Italy)
2021/09 Trajetórias Terapêuticas Transnacionais: O Vale do Amanhecer III Congresso da Associação de Brasilianistas na Europa
Metropolitan University of Prague (Prague, Czech Republic)
2021/06 Transnational Spiritual Healing in the Vale do Amanhecer Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference
University of Trento (Trento, Italy)
2021/06 Embodied Knowing: Healing through Mediumistic Trance in Brazil European Network of Psychological Anthropology Conference
University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland)
2021/05 Substância e Evanescência: Transe e Incorporação na Cura Espiritual Inaugural Lecture of the Postgraduate Programme in Social Anthropology
Universidade Federal de Santa Catrina (Florianópolis, Brazil)
2021 Substances of Healing: Embodied Knowing between Addiction and Spiritual Trance IUAES2020 World Congress
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (Croatia)
2020/07 Materializing Spiritual Experiences: Mediumistic Ways of Knowing in Brazil EASA2020 Conference
European Association of Social Anthropologist (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/07 Beyond Belief: Therapeutic Trajectories and Mediumistic Experiences in the Vale do Amanhecer International Conference of the Religious Experience Research Centre
University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Lampeter, United Kingdom)
2018/10 Notions of the Body and the Self in the Vale do Amanhcer’s Spiritual Healing Workshop of the International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism-ISARS
Sapienza University of Rome (Rome, Italy)
2018/08 Transnational Ways of Knowing the Spirits: Mediumship in the Vale do Amanhecer EASA2018 Conference
Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden)
2018/07 Disobsessive Healing and Mediumistic Development in the Vale do Amanhecer 18th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Florianópolis, Brazil)
2017/09 The Mediumistic Body: Learning Spirit Mediumship in the Vale do Amanhecer Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship Conference
University of Cologne (Cologne)
2017 Religions in Brazil between Categories and Experience Defining Religious Pluralism: A Research Hub for the Study of Religions
Sapienza University of Rome (Rome, Italy)
2016/11 The Glastonbury Experience: Gender and Embodiment in the Goddess Temple 'Women, Religion and Gender Relations’ Conference
University of Turin (Turin, Italy)
2016/09 Discerning Spirits, Defining Selves: Learning Semi-Conscious Trance in the Vale do Amanhecer. Conference ‘Wild or Domesticated: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives to Mind’
University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland)
2016/06 Experiencing the Sacred through the Body: Emotion and Sensation in the Vale do Amanhecer’s Spirit Mediumship Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference
University of Bergamo (Bergamo, Italy)
2015/08 Embodied Forms of Encounter: Educating Perception in researching among Brazilian Spirit Mediums 33rd ISSR Conference ‘Sensing Religion’
Université Catolique de Louvain-la-Neuve (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
2013/12 Religiosidade, Corpo e Self: O Aprendizado Iniciático no Vale do Amanhecer Invited Lecture at the PPGAS, Department of Anthropology
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Florianópolis, Brazil)
2013/10 Percursos Espirituais e Trajetórias Terapêuticas: O Aprendizado Iniciático no Vale do Amanhecer Invited Lecture at the PPGAS – Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro
PPGAS – Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2013/08 Mediumistic Experience and Notions of Selfhood in the Spiritualist Christian Order 'Vale do Amanhecer 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
University of Manchester (MANCHESTER, United Kingdom)
2011/07 Master Sun, Master Moon: Complementary Forms of Mediumship among the Jaguares of the Vale do Amanhecer Afterlife Research Centre Workshop ‘Ethnographic Approaches to Mediumship’
Afterlife Research Centre - University of Bristol (Bristol, United Kingdom)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2021/12 - Current Workshop 'Trance and Healing in Visual Ethnography: Referentiality, Ethical Issues, Assemblage' (HEAL Network for the Ethnography of Healing - Marie Curie THETRACE), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2021/12)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Programa de Pós-graduação em Antropologia Social - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
2021/08 - Current Workshop ‘Religion at Home: Reconfiguring Healing Spaces During Pandemic Times’ (online), co-convened with Joana Bahia and Giovanna Capponi, Laboratório Interdisciplinar das Religiões e Movimentos Migratórios - Lärm (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) and Heal Network (2021/08)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2021/06 - Current Panel convenor with Stefania Palmisano, ‘Multiple Spiritualities through the Lens of Ethnography’, Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference (2021/06)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
2020/11 - Current Roundtable convenor with Alberto Groisman and Giovanna Capponi, Etnografias da Incorporação nas Curas Espirituais, III Colóquio do Núcleo Transes ‘Sujeitos, Estado e Políticas Públicas: A Imaginação Antropológica e os Futuros Possíveis’, Universidade de Santa Catarina, Brazil (2020/11)
Round table (Co-organisor)
 Programa de Pós-graduação em Antropologia Social - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
2020/07 - Current Panel convenor with Alberto Groisman, ‘Other Worlds, Other Bodies? Ethnography, Experience and Epistemological Embodiment’ EASA2020 Conference (2020/07)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2019 - Current Panel convenor with Alessandro Gusman, ‘Healing Practices: Spiritual Approaches to Wellbeing’, International Conference of the Centre for Studies on New Religion (2019)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
2018/07 - Current Convenor with Alberto Groisman and Diana Espírito Santo of the Workshop of the Instituto Brasil Plural ‘Encontro Espiritualidade e Saúde’ (2018/07)
Round table (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
2018/07 - Current Panel convenor with Alberto Groisman, ‘Spirituality and Health: Epistemologies of Healing and the Ethnographic Encounter’, 18th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil (2018/07)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
2018/06 - Current Panel convenor with Stefania Palmisano and Nicola Pannofino, ‘Experiencing the Sacred between Religion and Spirituality’, Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference, University of Bergamo, Italy. (2018/06)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy
2016 - Current Panel convenor with Stefania Palmisano and Veronica Roldan, ‘Qualitative Methodologies in the Social Sciences Conference’, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Italy (2016)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Italy
2015 - Current Panel convenor with Alberto Groisman: ‘Bodily Dimension, Experience, and Ethnographic Research’ at the 33rd ISSR Conference ‘Sensing Religion’, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (2015)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
2013 - Current Panel convenor with Fiona Bowie: ‘The Extended Self: Relationships between Material and Immaterial Worlds’ at the 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, University of Manchester (2013)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
2012 - Current Convenor of the Afterlife Research Centre Research Seminar and Network Meeting, University of Bristol (2012)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
 University of Bristol, United Kingdom
2011 - Current Convenor of the Workshop ‘Ethnographic Approaches to Mediumship’, University of Bristol. (2011)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 University of Bristol, United Kingdom
2009 - Current Member of the Organizing Committee of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth ASA09 Conference, University of Bristol (2009)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 University of Bristol, United Kingdom
2009 - Current Convenor of the Postgraduate Research Forum. ASA09 Conference, University of Bristol (2009)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 University of Bristol, United Kingdom
2021/12/13 - 2021/12/14 Workshop Mediumship(s) and Health(s): Dialogues and Tensions / Mediunidade(s) e Saúde(s): Interlocução, Comunicabilidade e Partilhas entre Saberes, roundtables with anthropologists, psychologists and spiritual healers and religious practitioners in Brazil, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2021/12)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Programa de Pós-graduação em Antropologia Social - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2021 - Current EASA Contemporary Spiritual Practices Network Board Member
2021 - Current Member of the Associação de Brasilianistas na Europa
2020 - Current EASA Network of Psychological Anthropology
2018 - Current HEAL Network for the Ethnography of Healing Network Founder and Coordinator
2017 - Current Member of the Contemporary Religions and Faiths in Transition Research Centre (CRAFT), University of Turin, Italy
2017 - Current Network coordinator and co-founder with Alberto Groisman ‘Spirituality, Health, Embodiment and Ethnography’. Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia Brasil Plural, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. Renamed ‘HEAL – Network for the Ethnography of Healing’ Network co-coordinator and co-founder
2016 - Current European Association of Social Anthropologists
2015 - Current Member of the SISR/ISSR
2013 - Current IUAES - International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2013 - Current Member of the Research Committee of the Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK.
Member
 University of Wales Trinity Saint David - Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre, United Kingdom
2008 - Current Research Committee Member/ Founding Member of Afterlife Research Centre – Cross-Cultural Ethnographic Research
Member

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2017 - Current Journal for the Study of Religious Experience (2057-2301)
Distinctions

Award

2019 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Global Fellowship
European Union, Belgium
2012 Sutasoma Award
Royal Anthropological Institute, United Kingdom

Title

2013 Honorary Research Fellow
University of Wales Trinity Saint David - Lampeter Campus, United Kingdom

Other distinction

2018 Faculty development fund
The American University of Rome, Italy
2012 The Spalding Trust Grant
2011 Read-Tuckwell Postgraduate Scholarship
2010 Postgraduate Research Grant
University of Bristol, United Kingdom