Donizete Rodrigues (born in 1959) is Bachelor in Social Sciences (Geography), Master's degree in Social Anthropology (University of São Paulo, Brazil) – institution where was assistant professor (1986-1992) - and PhD in Social Anthropology (Coimbra University, Portugal). He is Associate Professor (with Habilitation) in Sociology at the University of Beira Interior – where was Dean of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences (1997-2000). He was Senior-researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology, Nova University of Lisbon (2007-2023) and Vice-president of Lusophone Studies Association (Canada, 2019-2022). He has been collaborating with many academic institutions: Visiting professor (1995-2011) in the PhD program in Sociology and Anthropology at University of Salamanca (Spain); Visiting scholar (2000-2001) and Erasmus fellow (2002-2005) in the Department of Sociology at Bristol University (England); Visiting professor (2009-2010) in the Department of Religion at Columbia University (ivy league, USA); and Associate researcher (2011-2013) at the Center for the Study of Latin American Pentecostalism, University of Southern California. And also taught in the Master and PhD seminars in Sociology and Anthropology in many European countries and also India, Brazil, USA, Japan, Canada, and Israel. He has done ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, USA, Europe, and Asia, in particular, on religion, immigration and identity. Presently, coordinates the project “Anthropological and sociological studies of religious expression and identities in the Amazonia, Brazil” (State University of Pará) and “Brazilian immigrants in New York City: religion and identity” (Columbia University). Published several scientific works in Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, and English: 20 articles in journals with elevated quality standards and high impact (Web of science, Scopus and JCR), 16 books (author and co-editor), 6 special issues-journal co-editor, and 45 book chapters (included Indiana University Press, Ashgate and Routledge). The books published in English are: The Religious Phenomenon: an inter-disciplinary approach (2000); The God of the New Millennium: An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion – preface by Bryan Wilson (2002); and Jesus in Sacred Gotham: Brazilian Immigrants and Pentecostalism in New York City (2014).