Ruy Llera Blanes CV Website
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Ruy Llera Blanes CV Website
Updated: December 2013 Curriculum Vitae Ruy Llera Blanes ruy.blanes.com Name: Ruy Llera Blanes Born: April 22nd, 1976 Nationality: Spanish Email: [email protected] Phone: + 351 933 452 815 Address: Rua Pedro de Barcelos17, R/C Dto 2750-185 Cascais Portugal Current positions ________________________________ Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen (20132016). Associated Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (2013-2014). Academic contacts ________________________________ University of Bergen Department of Social Anthropology Fosswinckelsgate 6, 8th Floor 5020 Bergen, Norway [email protected] Previous positions ________________________________ Visiting Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics (2010-2013). Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (20072013). Invited Lecturer, University of Coimbra, Department of Life Sciences (2011-2012). Guest Researcher in the Department of Anthropology and Developmental Sociology, Leiden University, Netherlands (2007-2010). PhD Candidate at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (2002-2007). Degrees ________________________________ 2007, PhD, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. 2001, BA, Social Anthropology, Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE). Languages ________________________________ Fluent Spanish, English, French, Portuguese. Areas of expertise ________________________________ Religion, Christianity, Prophetism, Pentecostal/Charismatic movements, Pluralism, Secularism. Africa, Central Africa, Angola. Europe, Portugal, Spain. Transnationalism, Diasporas, Migration, Human mobility. Identity, Politics, Leadership, Charisma, Violence, Conflict. Gender, tradition and change. History, Memory, Heritage, Knowledge, Rationalism. 2 Fieldwork experience ________________________________ 1) Portugal: Gypsy Pentecostal movements in Lisbon (2002-2004); Angolan Christian (Prophetic) diasporas (2007-2011). 2) Europe: Gypsy Pentecostal movements in Madrid, Spain (2004-5). 3) Angola: Prophetic movements in Luanda, Zaire, Uíge (2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013). Research Projects ________________________________ As coordinator 2013-2016: Currents of Faith, Places of History: Religious Diasporas, Connections, Moral Circumscriptions and World-Making in the Atlantic. Funded by HERA in the framework of the “Cultural Encounters” programme. Joint Research Programme including the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, the University of Bergen, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the University of Oxford and the University of Utrecht. With David Berliner (ULB), Ramon Sarró (Oxford), Birgit Meyer (Utrecht), Diana Espírito Santo, Mattijs van de Port (UVA), Michel Doortmont (Groningen), Markus Balkenhol (Utrecht) and João Rickli (Utrecht). As team member: 2013-2015: Gender and Pentecostal Christianity. A Comparative Focus on Africa and Melanesia, with Annelin Eriksen (Principal Investigator), Michelle McCarthy (University of Bergen). 2011-2014: The Politics of Hope: Churches and the Weaving of Society in Post-War Angola, with Ramon Sarró (ICS, Principal Investigator), Camila Sampaio (UERJ), and with advisors Clara Mafra (UERJ) and Fátima Viegas (UAN, Angola). Funded by FCT (Portugal). 2011-2012: A Pragmática da Transmissão Religiosa: Disciplina, Estética e Imaginação / La Pragmatique de la Transission Religieuse: Discipline, Asthetique et Imagination, with Ramon Sarró, Diana Espírito Santo, Max Ruben Ramos (ICS-UL) and Arnaud Halloy, Nancy Midol, Gauthier Ferrero (LASMIC, Univ. Nice). Funded by FCT (Portugal) and ANR (France). 2011-2014: A Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus, a Teologia da Prosperidade e os Direitos Humanos em Angola, with Clara Mafra (UERJ, Principal Investigator), Ramon Sarró (ICS), Claudia Swatowiski (UERJ). Funded by CAPES (Brazil). 2007-2010: Recognizing Christianity: How African Immigrants Redefine the European Religious Heritage (funded by the NORFACE consortium), with Ramon Sarro (ICS, Principal Investigator), Simon Coleman (University of Sussex), Martha Frederiks (IIMO, Utrecht Universiteit, Holanda), Fátima Viegas (Universidade Agostinho Neto, Luanda), and with advisors Rijk van Dijk (Africa Studies Centre, Leiden) and Kristine Krause (Oxford University). Funded by NORFACE consortium. 2007-2010: O Atlântico Cristão: Etnografias de Encontros Religiosos entre Igrejas Africanas, Brasileiras e Portuguesas em Lisboa [The Christian Atlantic: Ethnographies of Religious Encounters between 3 African, Brazilian and Portuguese Churches in Lisbon] (funded by FCT), with Ramon Sarro (ICS, project coordinator), Elisabete Curtinhal (ISCTE, Câmara Municpal do Seixal), Susana Pereira (ISCTE, Steffen Dix (ICS), Isabel Tomás (ISCTE) and, as advisor, Clara Mafra (UERJ). Funded by FCT (Portugal). As individual researcher: 2010-2013: Religious Knowledge and Rationality in African Prophetic Churches, postdoctoral research project taking place at the ICS (supervisor Ramon Sarró) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (advisor Matthew Engelke). 2007-2010: Pluralismo Religioso: Movimentos Cristãos Africanos em Portugal [Religious Pluralism: African Christian Movements in Portugal], postdoctoral research project taking place at the ICS (supervisor Ramon Sarró) and the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of the University of Leiden (supervisor Peter Pels). 2003-2007: Aleluia. Música, Religião e Identidade entre os Ciganos Portugueses e Espanhóis [Hallelujah! Music and Identiy in a Gypsy Pentecostal Movement in the Iberian Peninsula], PhD project, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. Tutor: João de Pina Cabral. Lecturing ________________________________ Courses 2013, Invited Lecturer, module “Indivíduo, Representações Coletivas e Movimentos Sociais” [Individuals, Collective Representations and Social Movements], Universidade Agostinho Neto, Luanda, Angola. October 2013 (20 hours). 2011-2012, Lecturer, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, B.A. in Anthropology. Courses: Introduction to Social Anthropology (1st year); Anthropology of Performance (2nd year). 2010-2011, Assistant lecturer (with Diana Espírito Santo) in course “Symbolism and Ritual: the Anthropology of Religion” (MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon), course directed by Ramon Sarró. November 2010-January 2011 (20 hours). 2009, Assistant lecturer in course “Ethnographies of the Atlantic: Religious Imagination in Africa and the Diaspora” (M.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon), taught by Ramon Sarró. September-October 2009 (20 hours). 2008, Main lecturer, course on “Anthropology and Theatre”, B.A. in Theatre, Escola Superior de Artes e Design (Instituto Politécnico de Leiria). March-July 2008 (45 hours). Summer Schools 2012, co-organizer (with Ramon Sarró, Kim Knibbe and Erin Wilson) of the II Summer School “Religion and the Public Domain”, in collaboration with the University of Groningen. Lisbon, August 20-24, 2012. 4 2011, co-organizer (with Ramon Sarró, Kim Knibbe and Arie Molendijk) of the I Summer School “Religion and the Public Domain”, in collaboration with the University of Groningen. Lisbon, August 2226, 2011. Invited lecturer 2013, “Leadership and Charisma”, in the III Summer School Religion and the Public Domain, University of Groningen / CRIA-ISCTE/IUL, Lisbon [2013/07/16]. 2012, “Religions and Migrations”, Doctorate Course in Migrations, IGOT/ Institute of Social Sciences Lisbon, [2012/05/23]. 2011, “The Biographical Method”, in course Research Methods in Social Anthropology (coordinated by João Pina Cabral), Doctorate Course in Anthropology, Institute of Social Sciences Lisbon, [2011/02/09]. 2010, “Prophetic Lives. Leadership and Charisma in the Angolan Tokoist church”, in the Doctorate Course seminars in Anthropology, UNED, Madrid [2010/06/21]. 2009, “Suffering and Memory in African Prophetic Churches” (with Ramon Sarró), in the Summer Course Fear, Suffering and Healing: Anthropology, Religion and Alternative Therapies in the Contemporary World, coordinated by Clara Saraiva. [2009/09/18]. 2008, “Religion and Globalisation”, in course “Globalisations” (M.A. Multiculturalism, ISCTE, Lisbon), taught by Paulo Raposo. [2008/11/24]. in Anthropology and 2008, “African prophetism in contemporary religiosity”, in course “Anthropology of Religion”, (B.A. in Anthropology, New University of Lisbon), taught by Clara Saraiva. [2008/06/04] 2006, “The audiovisual language and significance”, in course “Anthropological Methods”,(M.A. course in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Institute of Social Sciences), taught by João de Pina Cabral. [2006/11/07] 2005, “Ritual, Experience and transformation: from rites of passage to pentecostal masses” (course “Religious Dynamics in the Contemporary World”, Institute of Social Sciences), directed by Ramon Sarró. [2005/10/12] 2004, “Discourses on health and disease in a Gypsy Pentecostal Church”, (in B.A. on Dental Medicine, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Lisbon). [2005/10/12] 2004, “Discourses on health and disease in a Gypsy Pentecostal Church”, (in course Anthropology of Medicine, B.A. on Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Lisbon). [2004/09/21] Supervision ________________________________ PhD-level 2013-2016, “Transatlantic Jerusalems: grassroots prophetism, alternative politics and making the land 5 in contemporary Peru”, Carmen González Hacha, (Post-Graduate Program in Social Anthropology, Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon). MA-level 2010-2014, “A Mobilidade na Construção Identitária de Judeus Residentes em Lisboa” [Mobility in the Identitary Construction of Lisboan Jews] Teresa Santos (MA Program in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon). 2012-2014, “O Papel da Igreja Católica na Questão da Feitiçaria em Angola” [The Role of the Catholic Church in the Witchcraft Issue in Angola], Pedro Pestana Soares, MA Program in Anthropology, ISCTEIUL, Lisbon). Committees ________________________________ PhD Vivas 2012, Daria Trentini, dissertation “On the Threshold of a Healer’s Mosque: Spiritual Healing, Hazard and Power in Northern Mozambique”, SOAS, UK, November 2012. 2011, Lurdes Nicolau dissertation “Ciganos e Não Ciganos em Trás-os-Montes: Investigação de um Impasse Inter-Étnico”, School of Social and Human Sciences, Department of Economy, Sociology and Management, University of Trás-Os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), June 2011. 2010, Ana Evangelista Brinca, dissertation “Exibição e Manejos do Segredo como Estratégia de Representação entre Portugueses Ciganos”, Department of Anthropology, New University of Lisbon, April 20th, 2010. External Reports (‘European PhD’ recognition) 2013, Vítor Hugo Adami (Universidad Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona), dissertation “O Pensamento Coletivo Hare Krishna e seus Modos de Institucionalização: um estudo sobre comunidades globalizadas e identidades locais”. 2013, Álvaro Arconada (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), dissertation “Madjonjoni. Sociedad, Cultura y Migración en el Sur de Mozambique”. 2011, Rosalba Ponce (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain), dissertation “Estructuras Sociales, Religión y Poder. Estudio Comparativo entre México y España”. 2009 Ester Massó (Universidad de Granada, Spain), dissertation “La franja de Caprivi en el Estado de Namibia: ¿etnicidad, regionalismo o proyecto nacionalizante?”. 6 MA Examinations 2012, Cléria Ferreira, dissertation “O Tokoismo como Elemento da Identidade Angolana (1950-1965)”, MA in African History, University of Lisbon, September 20th, 2012. 2010, Joana Santos, dissertation “Religião no Feminino: Experiências da Mulher Kimbanguista em Portugal”, MA on Anthropology and Multiculturalism, ISCTE, July 25th, 2010. 2008, Elisabete Curtinhal, dissertation “Deus é Brasileiro: vivências religiosas e o quotidiano entre imigrantes brasileiros católicos e evangélicos” [God is Brazilian: religious and quotidian lives among Catholic and Pentecostal Brazilian migrants], MA on Anthropology and Multiculturalism, ISCTE. Other Committees 2011, Member of Selection Committee for a MA-level research grant for FCT project “A Profeta e o Agricultor”, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. 2009, Member of Selection Committee for an MA-level research grant for project “Recognizing Christianity” (NORFACE), Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, ISCTE. 2009, Member of Jury at the Postgraduate Studies Programme for PhD research project pre-evaluation of student Max Rúben Ramos, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. 2008, Member of Selection Committee for a BA-level research grant for FCT project “O Atlântico Cristão”, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. Project assessment 2012, International Research Project application assessment, Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva (ANEP), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain. 2011, International Research Project application assessment, Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva (ANEP), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain. 2010, Research Project final report assessment, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal. Networking and Membership ________________________________ Positions 2009-2013: Vice-President of the Portuguese Anthropological Association. 2006-2009: Treasurer of the Portuguese Anthropological Association. 7 Membership Member of the American Anthropological Association, Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (Portuguese Anthropological Association), European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). Networks 2009-today: Co-founder (with José Mapril and Ramon Sarró) and member of the Núcleo de Antropologia da Religião (Anthropology of Religion Group), research network based at CRIA-ISCTE. 2006-today: founding member of the EASA Anthropology of Religion Network. 2001-2006: Volunteer and collaborator at the Social Anthropology Research Centre (CEAS-ISCTE). Editorial activity ________________________________ Positions 2013-2016: Associate Editor of the journal HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 2013-today: Member of the Editorial Advisory Board in Journal of Religion in Africa (Brill). 2012-today: Co-Editor (with Simon Coleman and Ramon Sarró), Religion and Society: Advances in Research (Berghahn). 2012-today: Member of the Editorial Board in journal Debates do NER (UFRGS, Brazil). 2009-2012: Book and Film Review Editor in journal Religion and Society: Advances in Research (Berghahn). 2007-2010: Editor of the “e-bulletin” of the Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (Portuguese Association of Anthropology). 2005-2008: Editorial assistant in journal Etnográfica. Centro de Estudos de Antropologia Social (Social Anthrpology Research Centre) [Editor-in-chief: Miguel Vale de Almeida] Refereeing 2013, Referee reports for journals (Social Anthropology, Etnográfica, RUNA - Revista de Antropología, Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Social and 8 Cultural Geography) and books (Berghahn). 2012, Referee reports for journals (Hau, Interseções, Ciencias Sociales y Religión, Mana, JRAI, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Etnográfica, Sociologia – Problemas e Práticas, ) and publishers (Mundos Sociais). 2011, Referee reports for publishers (Berghahn) and Ciências Sociais, e-Cadernos CES). journals (Análise Social, Revista Crítica de 2010, Referee reports for publishers (Berghahn) and journals (Análise Social). 2009, Referee reports for publishers (Berghahn, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais) and journals (Etnográfica, Análise Social). 2007, Referee report for publishers (Imprensa de Ciências Sociais) and journals (Etnográfica). Funding, Prizes and Awards ________________________________ Funding 2011, Funding of the International Workshop “Atheism and Anthropology: Researching Atheism and Self-searching Belief and Experience”, University College London, September 21st, 2011 (co-organized with Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic). 1,000€. Prizes 2012, Award for the Internationalization of Social Sciences 2012 (Programa para a Internacionalização das Ciências Sociais 2012), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, € 5,000. 2011, Stimulus and Recognition of Social Science Internationalization Award (Prémio Estímulo e Reconhecimento da Internacionalização em Ciências Sociais), Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. 1,720€. Research Awards 2013-2016: Collaborative Research Project Currents of Faith, Places of History, 1M€. 2010-2013, Postdoctoral research scholarship, Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal. 2007-2010, Postdoctoral research scholarship, Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal. 2002-2007, PhD scholarship, Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal. Other Application History 2011, Application for an ERC Starting Grant. Final Panel Score B (Ranking Range 19%-28%). 9 Publications ________________________________ Books (author) 2014, A Prophetic Trajectory. Ideologies of Time, Space and Belonging in an Angolan Christian Movement. Oxford: Berghahn. 2008, Os Aleluias. Ciganos Evangélicos e Música [The ‘Aleluias’. Evangelical Gypsies and Music]. Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais [ISBN:978-972671225-1] Books (editor) 2013, The Social Life of Spirits, book edited with Diana Espírito Santo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [ISBN: 978-0-226-08177-9]. 2013, Sites and Politics of Religious Diversity in Southern Europe, book edited with José Mapril. Leiden: Brill [ISBN: 978-900425523-4]. 2011, Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices: Anthropological Reflections, book edited with Anna Fedele. Oxford: Berghahn [ISBN 978-0-85745-207-8]. 2008, A Globalização no Divã [Globalisation on the Couch], book edited with Renato do Carmo and Daniel Melo. Lisbon: Tinta da China (350 pp.) [ISBN:978-9728955-54-0] 2008, Teorías y Prácticas Emergentes en la Antropología de la Religión. Actas del Simposio [Emergent Theories and Practices in the Anthropology of Religion. Symposium Proceedings], book edited with Manuela Cantón Delgado and Mónica Cornejo Valle. Donostia, Spain: FAAEE. [ISBN: 13-978-84-6914962-1] Special Issues (editor) 2009, “Os Deuses Também Viajam: Religião e Mobilidade Humana no século XXI” [The Gods also travel: religion and human mobility in the twenty-first century], Special issue edited with Ramon Sarró for Análise Social 190 (XLIV). 2008, “European Christianities at the turn of the Millennium: ethnographic approaches”, Dossier edited with Ramon Sarró for Etnográfica, volume 12, number 2 November 2008. Articles (journals) 2013, “Don Quixote's Choice. Manifesto for a Romanticist Anthropology”, co-author with Maïté Maskens, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3 (3): 245–81. Forthcoming, ”Time for Self-Sacrifice: Temporal Narratives, Prophetism“,Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (online). 10 Politics and Ideals in African 2013, “Da Confusão à Ironia. Expectativas e Legados da PIDE em Angola” [From Confusion to Irony. PIDE's Expectations and Legacies in Angola], Análise Social.XLVIII (1): 30-55. 2012, “Moral Circumscriptions: Involuntary Mobility, Diaspora and Ideological Configurations in the Angolan Tokoist Church“, Canadian Journal of African Studies 46 (3): 367-380. 2012, “O Tempo dos Inimigos. Notas para uma Antropologia da Repressão no Século XXI” [The Time st of the Enemies. Notes for an Anthropology of Repression in the 21 Century], Horizontes Antropológicos 37: 261-284. (Brazil). 2011, “Double Presence. Proselytism and Belonging in an Angolan Prophetic Church’s Diaspora in Europe”, Journal of Religion in Europe 4 (3): 409-428 (Netherlands). 2011, “Unstable Biographies: The Ethnography of Memory and Historicity in an Angolan Prophetic Movement”, History and Anthropology 22 (1): 93-119 (UK). 2009, “O Messias Entretanto Já Chegou. Relendo Balandier e o Profetismo Africano na Pós-Colônia” [And the Messiah Arrived: Reading Balandier and African Prophetism in the Post-Colony], Campos – Revista de Antropologia Social 10 (2): 9-23 (Brazil). 2009, “O Que se Passa Tabernáculo? Oração e Espacialização na Igreja Tokoista Angolana” [What is going in the Tabernacle? Prayer and Spatialization in the Angolan Tokoist Church], Religião e Sociedade 29 (2): 116-133 (Brazil). 2009, “Remembering and Suffering: Memory and Shifting Allegiances in the Angolan Tokoist Church”. Exchange 38 (2): 161-181 (Netherlands). 2009, “Prophetic Diasporas: Moving Religion across the Lusophone Atlantic”, co-author with Ramon Sarró. African Diaspora 2 (1): 52-72 (Netherlands). 2009, “A Religião na Diáspora Angolana. Apontamentos para uma agenda de estudo” [Religion in the Angolan Diaspora. Notes for a Research Agenda] (with Ramon Sarró), Religiões e Estudos 2 (Angola). 2008, “La Guerre en temps de Paix. Ethnicité et Angolanité dans l’Église Kimbanguiste de Luanda”, coauthor with Ramon Sarró and Fátima Viegas. Politique Africaine 110: 84-101 (France). [Special issue on “L’Angola dans la paix. Autoritarisme et reconversions”, coordinated by Didier Péclard] 2008, “Why Africans do what they do. Arguments, discussions and religious transmission in Angolan Pentecostal churches in Lisbon”, Quaderns del ICA 23 (7): 123-137 (Spain). [Special Issue on “Religion and Cognition”, coordinated by Carles Salazar]. 2008, “Satan, Agent Musical. Le Diable et le pouvoir ambivalent de la musique parmi les tsiganes évangéliques de la Péninsule Ibérique”, Terrain 50: 82-99 (France). 2008, “A Música e Identidade Religiosa. O movimento evangélico cigano em Portugal”, [Music and religious identity. The Gypsy evangelical movement in Portugal], Travessias 6/7: 349-364 (Portugal). 2007, “Contacto, Conhecimento e Conflito. Dinâmicas cultuais e sociais num movimento evangélico cigano na Península Ibérica”, [Contact, knowledge and conflict. Social and cultual dynamics in an evangelical Gypsy movement in the Iberian Peninsula] Etnográfica 11 (2): 29-54 (Portugal). 2006, “The Atheist Anthropologist. Believers and Non-Believers in Anthropological Fieldwork”, Social 11 Anthropology 14 (2): 223-234 (UK). 2003, “Nascer no Culto. Modalidades de Acesso ao Movimento Evangélico Cigano em Portugal”, [Born in the Cult. Access modes in the evangelical gypsy movement in Portugal] Religião e Sociedade 23 (1): 107-131 (Brazil). Chapters (books) 2013, “Extraordinary Times. Charismatic Repertoires in Contemporary African Prophetism“, in LINDHOLM, Charles (ed.), Ecstasies and Institutions. The Anthropology of Religious Charisma. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 147-168. 2013, “Prophetic Visions of Europe: Rethinking Place and Belonging Among Angolan Christians in Lisbon”, in BLANES, Ruy and José MAPRIL (Eds), Sites and Politics of Religious Diversity in Southern Europe. Leiden: Brill. 2012, “Missão, mobilidade e fronteira: a Igreja de Filadélffia e os ciganos na Península Ibérica” [Mission, Mobility and Frontier: the Gypsy Filadelfia Church in the Iberian Peninsula], in BASTOS José Gabriel (org), Portugueses Ciganos e Ciganofobia em Portugal. Lisbon: Colibri / CEMME – FCSHUNL, pp. 129-139. 2011, “Satan, Agent Musical. Le Diable et le pouvoir ambivalent de la musique parmi les tsiganes évangéliques de la Péninsule Ibérique”, in STEWART, Michael and Patrick Williams (eds), Des Tsiganes en Europe. Paris: Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 219-248 (France). 2011, “Simão Gonçalves Toco (1918-1984), religious leader”, in AKYEAMPONG, Emmanuel and Henry L. Gates (eds), Dictionary of African Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 41-42 (UK & USA). 2010, “The Personification of a Prophet: Leadership, Charisma and the Globalization of the Angolan Tokoist Church”, in FANCELLO, Sandra and André Mary (eds), Chrétiens Africains en Europe. Paris: Karthala, 69-92 (France). 2010, “Profetas e Missionários: Reflexões sobre as Igrejas Angolanas em Lisboa” [Prophets and Missionaries: Reflections on Angolan Churches in Lisbon], co-author with Ramon Sarró in VILAÇA, Helena and Enzo Pace (eds), Religião em Movimento. Imigrantes e Diversidade Religiosa em Portugal e Itália. Porto: Estratégias Criativas (Portugal). 2009, “Circunscrição Moral: Mobilidade, diáspora e configurações doutrinais na Igreja Tokoista” [Moral Circumscription: mobility, diaspora and doctrinal configurations in the Tokoist church], in CARMO, Renato do and José Alberto Simões (orgs.), A Produção das Mobilidades: Redes, espacialidades e trajectos num mundo em globalização. Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 247-262 (Portugal). 2008, “O Atlântico Cristão: apontamentos encontros religiosos em Lisboa”, [The Christian Atlantic: Religious Encounters in Lisbon] (with Ramon Sarró) in CABRAL, Manuel Villaverde, Karin Wall, Sofia Aboim and Filipe Carreira da Silva (orgs.), Itinerários. A Investigação nos 25 Anos do ICS. [Itineraries. Research in the 25 Years of ICS] Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais (Portugal). 2008, “Um Cemitério chamado Europa: cristianismo, consciência global e identidades migratórias”, [A Cemetery called Europe: Christianity, Global Conscience and Migratory Identities] in CARMO, Renato do, Daniel Melo & Ruy Llera Blanes (orgs.) A Globalização no Divã. Lisbon: Tinta da China (Portugal). 12 2004, “Em Nome da Interdenominacionalidade: ligações transnacionais e “novas” práticas musicais entre os ciganos evangélicos portugueses”, [In the Name of Interdenominationalism: trasnational connections and “new” musical practices among Portuguese Pentecostal Gypsies] in PAIS, José Machado, Joaquim Pais de Brito & Mário Vieira de Carvalho (coords.), Sonoridades Luso-AfroBrasileiras. Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais (Portugal). Introductory texts 2013, “Introduction: On the Agency of Intangibles”, co-author with Diana Espírito Santo, in BLANES, Ruy and Diana Espírito Santo (eds), The Social Life of Spirits. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2013, "Introduction: Sites and Politics of Religious Diversity in Southern Europe”, co-author with José Mapril, in MAPRIL, José and Ruy Llera Blanes (eds), Sites and Politics of Religious Diversity in Southern Europe. Leiden: Brill. 2012, "Introduction. One Hundred Years of Anthropology of Religion", co-author with Simon Coleman and Ramon Sarró, Advances in Research: Religion and Society 3: 1-3. 2011, “Introduction”, co-author with Anna Fedele, in FEDELE, Anna and Ruy Llera Blanes (eds), Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices: Anthropological Reflections. Oxford: Berghahn 2009, “Apresentação” [Presentation], co-author with Ramon Sarró. Análise Social 190 (XLIV): 5-13. Special Issue “Os Deuses Também Viajam: Religião e Mobilidade Humana no Século XXI” [The Gods also travel: religion and human mobility in the twenty first century], edited by Ramon Sarró and Ruy Blanes. 2008, “European Christianities at the Turn of the Millennium: an Introduction”, co-author with Ramon Sarró. Etnográfica 12 (2): 371-376. 2008, “Introducción: La Religión en Movimiento” [Introduction: Religion in Movement] (with Manuela Cantón Delgado and Mónica Cornejo Valle) in VALLE, Mónica Cornejo, Manuela Cantón Delgado and Ruy Llera Blanes (eds.), Teorías y Prácticas Emergentes en la Antropología de la Religión. Actas del Simposio. [Emergent Theories and Practices in the Anthropology of Religion. Symposium Proceedings] Edited with Manuela Cantón Delgado and Mónica Cornejo Valle. Donostia, Spain: FAAEE. 2008, “Prefácio: a globalização vista pelo seu redor” [Preface: Globalisation seen from its surroundings] (with Renato do Carmo and Daniel Melo), in CARMO, Renato do, Daniel Melo & Ruy Llera Blanes (orgs.), A Globalização no Divã. Lisbon: Tinta da China. Comments 2013, "What Kind of God?", with Annelin Eriksen. Comment on Tanya Luhrmann, When God Talks Back. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3 (3): 375-380. Reviews 2013, Pentecostalism and Development: Churches, NGOs and Social Change in Africa, edited by Dena Freeman (2012, Palgrave Macmillan), Social Analysis 57 (2): 129-131. 13 2013, Holy Hustlers, Schism and Prophecy. Apostolic Reformation in Botswana, Richard Werbner (2011, Berkeley: University of California Press), Social Anthropology 21 (1): 121-122. 2012, Nouvelle Terre Promise, dir. Hervê Colombani (2008, CNRS Images), Advances in Research: Religion and Society 3: 240-241. 2012, Dreams that Matter. Landscapes of the Egyptian Imagination, Amira Mittermaier (2011, Berkeley: University of California Press), American Ethnologist 39 (1): 225-226. 2011, Les Conceptions du Corps et de la Personne dans un contexte amérindien. Indiens toba du Gran Chaco sud-américain, Florencia Tola (2009, Paris: L’Harmattan), Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 17: 421-422. 2009, Learning Religion: Anthropological Approaches, eds David Berliner and Ramon Sarró (2008, Oxford: Berghahn) and On the Margins of Religion, eds. Frances Pine and João Pina Cabral (2008, Oxford: Berghahn), Análise Social XLIV (4): 869-873. 2007, Sociologia dos Novos Movimentos Eclesiais. Focolares, Carismáticos e Neocatecumenais em Braga, Joaquim Costa (2006, Porto: Afrontamento), Análise Social 184: 948-951. 2007, Nós, os Ciganos e os Outros. Etnicidade e Exclusão Social, Maria Manuela Ferreira Mendes (2005, Porto: Afrontamento), Análise Social 182: 360-363. 2005, Tribos Urbanas. Produção Artística e Identidades, José Machado Pais and Leila Maria Blass (coords.) (2004, Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais), Etnográfica IX (2): 419-421. 2005, Em Nome de Deus. A Religião na Sociedade Contemporânea, Donizete Rodrigues (org.) (2004, Porto: Afrontamento), Análise Social 175: 438-440. 2005, Holy Brotherhood. Romani Music in a Hungarian Pentecostal Church, Barbara Rose Lange (2003, Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press), Análise Social 173: 893-896. 2003, Fixar o Movimento. Representações da música rap em Portugal, Teresa Fradique (2003, Lisbon: D. Quixote, Colecção “Portugal de Perto”), Etnográfica Vol. VII (2): 469-470. 2003, Fixar o Movimento. Representações da música rap em Portugal, Teresa Fradique (2003, Lisboa: D. Quixote, Colecção “Portugal de Perto”), Mana – Revista de Antropologia Social Vol 9 (2): 206-209. Non-Academic media 2011, review of Caminhos Cruzados em História e Antropologia. Ensaios de Homenagem a Jill Dias. (eds P. K. Havik, J.A. Tavim & C. Saraiva, 2010, Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais), Le Monde Diplomatique, April 2011 issue, p. 20. 2010, review of Kupilikula. O Poder e o Invisível em Mueda. (Harry West, 2009, Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais), Le Monde Diplomatique, March 2010 issue, p. 20. 14 Internet 2011, “Political and Religious Lines Redrawn in Post-War Angola”, post @ Africa at LSE Blog. 2005, “Music as Discourse. On Gypsy Pentecostal Music and its Configurations” @ Instituto Camões. Websites 2008, Website for research project “Recognizing Christianity: How African Immigrants Shape the European Religious Heritage”. @ Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. [Building, updating and blog] Theses 2007, “Aleluia! Música e Identidade num Movimento Evangélico Cigano na Península Ibérica”, [Hallellujah! Music and Identiy in a Gypsy Pentecostal Movement in the Iberian Peninsula] PhD Thesis, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. 15 Events ________________________________ General meetings 2013, Member of the Steering Committee of the V Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association, Lisbon, September 8-11, 2013. 2009, Member of the Steering Committee of the IV Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association, Lisbon, September 9-11, 2009. Workshops, panels, etc. 2013, co-convenor (with Annelin Eriksen) of the session “The Gender of Christian Charisma: Debating Ethnographies of Agency, Power and Engendered Leadership in Contemporary Christianity”, American th Anthropological Association 113 Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 20-25, 2013. 2013, co-convenor (with Melvina Araújo and Christina da Cunha) of the Working Group (GT) Práticas Religiosas em Interface com Violência, Pobreza e Etnia, in the XVII Jornadas sobre Alternativas Religiosas na América Latina, Porto Alegre, November 10-14, 2013. 2013, co-convenor (with Emerson Giumbelli) of the panel “Religions, Jurisdictions, Sovereignties: ethnographies of religious and political contestations”, Portuguese Association of Anthropology, Vila Real, Portugal, September 8-11, 2013. 2013, co-organizer of the workshop “I Know What I Saw: Debating Ethnographies of Sight and Visibility in the Anthropology of Religion” (with Ramon Sarró and Diana Espírito Santo)”, London School of th Economics, May 28 , 2013. 2012, host and co-organizer of the workshop “Imagination in Religious Transmission”, under the framework of the PESSOA project The Pragmatics of Religious Transmission (ICS, Univ. Nice). Lisbon, th December 12 , 2012. 2011, host and co-organizer (with Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic) of the international workshop “Atheism and Anthropology: Researching Atheism and Self-searching Belief and Experience”, University College London, September 21st, 2011. Funded by the EASA Network Fund. 2011, co-convenor (with Arnaud Halloy and Vlad Naumescu) of the workshop “The Pragmatics of Religious Transmission”, at the Congress of the SIEF (Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et Folklore), Lisbon, April 18-21, 2011. 2010, co-convenor (with Diana Espírito Santo) of the session “Researching Spirit Biographies: Locating the Selves and Histories of Immaterial Entities in Religious Experience and Knowledge”, American Anthropological Association 2010 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 16-21, 2010. 2010, co-convenor (with Clara Saraiva and Ramon Sarró) of the workshop “Religion and Power In and Out of Africa: Devotions and Migrations (O Poder Religioso em África: Devoções e Migrações)”, at the 7º International Conference of African Studies (CIEA7), Lisbon, September 9-11, 2010. 16 2010, co-convenor (with Keith Egan) of the workshop “Wounding, Meaning, Being: Managing Experience, Knowledge and Time in Contemporary Religiosity”, at the 11th EASA Biennial Conference, Maynooth, Ireland, August 24-28, 2010. 2009, host and co-organizer (with Arnaud Halloy and Vlad Naumescu) of the workshop “Religious Pragmatics”, Lisbon, October 23rd, 2009. 2009, co-organizer (with Marcio Goldman and Roger Sansi Roca) of the panel “A Experiência Religiosa e suas Delimitações” [Religious Experience and its Delimitations], at the IV Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association, September 9th, 2009. 2008, coordinator (with Manuela Cantón Delgado and Mónica Cornejo Valle) of the symposium “Teorias y prácticas emergentes en la antropologia de la religión” [Emerging Theories and Practices in the Anthropology of Religion], in the XI Congreso de la Federación de Asociaciones de Antropología del Estado Español, Donostia, Spain, 10-13 September 2008. 2008, Coordination (with Anna Fedele) of the workshop “Body and Soul: on corporeality in th contemporary religiosity”, in the 10 EASA Biennial Conference: Experiencing Diversity and Mutuality, 26-30 July 2008, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Other events 2008, Coordination (with Renato do Carmo and Daniel Melo) of the “Conferências do Divã” [Conferences of the couch], May-June 2008, Lisbon. 2006, Coordination of the Documentary exhibit, 3rd Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association, Lisbon, 6-8 April 2006. 2005, Coordination (with Ramon Sarró, José Mapril and Paulo Raposo) of the exhibit on Cinema, Documentary and Anthropology: “Regards on Religion and Ritual”, organized by CEAS and ICS. Lisbon, October-November 2005. 2004, Assistance in the organization of the 1st Seminar on Visual Anthropology (organized by CEAS and coordinated by Paulo Raposo), Lisbon, January-December 2004. Papers 2013, “Gender, Leadership and Charismatic Circulations in the Angolan Bakongo World”, in session The Gender of Christian Charisma: Debating Ethnographies of Agency, Power and Engendered th Leadership in Contemporary Christianity, in the 113 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association 2013 Annual Meeting, Chicago [20/11/2013]. 2013, “Géneros y morfologías carismáticas: Reflexiones a partir de la cosmología Bakongo”, Conference, FLACSO-UBA, Buenos Aires [15-11-2013] 2013, “Carisma e Transformação Social: apontamentos sobre liderança, tradição e iconoclasmo em movimentos religiosos Kongo na Angola contemporânea”, in Working Group (GT) Práticas Religiosas em Interface com Violência, Pobreza e Etnia, in the XVII Jornadas sobre Alternativas Religiosas na América Latina, Porto Alegre [13/11/2013]. 17 2013, “O Estudo Antropológico da Religião: O Estudo de Caso do Tocoismo em Angola”, ISCED, Lubango, Angola. 2013, “Carisma e Lideranças Político-Religiosas, Universidade Agostinho Neto, Luanda, Angola [26/09/2013]. 2013, “Congolense Spirits. The Urban Implantation of Bakongo Religiosity in Luanda”, in panel Writing the World from another African Metropolis: Luanda and the Urban Question, European Conference of African Studies 2013, Lisbon [28/06/2013]. 2013, “Silent Prophets. On Discernment and Manifestation in Angolan Prophetism”, in workshop I Know What I Saw: Debating Ethnographies of Sight and Visibility in the Anthropology of Religion, London, London School of Economics, [28/05/2013]. 2013, “Revealing Prophets, Revealing Concepts. Notes on Tropes, Regions and Negative Comparison in the Anthropology of Religion”, in workshop The Genesis of Value. Comparison inAnthropological Studies of Religion. Paris, EPHS [17/05/2013]. 2013, “Dispositivos Coloniais: o efeito patrimonializador e historiográfico da PIDE em Angola” [Colonial Dispositions: the heritagizing and historiographic effect of the PIDE in Angola], Seminar Marcas do Império, Colonialismo e Pós-Colonialismo na Época Contemporânea, Instituto de História Contemporânea, FCSH-UNL, Lisbon [06/03/2013]. 2012, “Imagination and Religious Transmission in Angolan Prophetism”, paper presented at the International Workshop “Imagination in Religious Transmission”, ICS, Lisbon [12/12/2012]. 2012, “O Apocalipse Angolano. Profecias, Imaginários e Contestações Políticas na Angola Pós-Guerra” [The Angolan Apocalypse. Prophecies, Imaginaries and Political Contestations in Post-War Angola], paper presented at the International Workshop O Imaginário na Textura do Presente, UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [19-22/11/2012]. 2012, “Musical Transmission as Religious Aesthetics in the Angolan Tokoist Church’’, paper presented at the Journée d’Études L’Esthétique de la Transmission Religieuse, Nice, France [28/09/2012]. 2012, “Territorial Imaginations: Notes on Religious Imagination and Map-making in Angolan Prophetism”, paper presented at the panel “Grappling Uncertainties: Ethnographies of the Imagination”, 2012 European Association of Social Anthropologists Meeting, Paris, France, [2012/07/13]. 2012, “The Angolan Conflict from a Tokoist point of View”, paper presented at the CIEA8, 8 International Congress of African Studies, Madrid, Spain [2012/06/16]. th 2012, “Da Confusão à Ironia. Expectativas e Legados da PIDE em Angola” [From Confusion to Irony. Expectations and Legacies of the PIDE police in Angola], paper presented at the international colloquium Legados do Autorismo em Portugal em Perspectiva Comparada, New University Lisbon [23/04/2012]. 2012, “Tokoists have never been modern: organizing time, memory and expectations in an Angolan prophetic movement”, Friday Seminar, London School of Economics [2012/03/16]. 2012, “A religião e a formação de consciências políticas em Angola”, Makas às Quartas Conferences, União de Escritores Angolanos, Luanda, Angola [2012/02/16]. 18 2012, “Pesquisando antropologicamente a religião: a Igreja Tokoista como terreno etnográfico”, Anthropology Seminar, Universidade Agostinho Neto, Luanda, Angola [2012/02/15]. 2011, “Patrimonialización Personal: trayectorias proféticas, biografías y conflictos de memoria en África“, paper presented at the INCIPIT (Institute of Heritage Sciences), Santiago de Compostela [2011/10/11]. 2011, “The future, from a prophetic experience. Charismas and temporalities in Angolan Tokoism”, presented at the “Christianities Workshop”, London School of Economics [2011/05/04]. 2011, “Memória, política e a luta pela coerência: a temporalidade disputada entre os tocoistas de Angola” [Memory, Politics and the Struggle for Coherence: disputed temporalities among the Tocoists of Angola], presented at the 3rd Person, Religion and Mobility Workshop, Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon [2011/03/26]. 2011, “Sobre a Racionalidade do Conhecimento Religioso: Exemplos do Profetismo Africano” [On the Rationality of Religious Knowledge: Examples from African Prophetism], presented at the Tuesday Seminar, Centro de Estudos Sociais, Coimbra [2011/01/18]. 2011, “The Time of Sacrifice: Martyrdom as Knowledge and Temporal Experience in African Prophetism”, presented at the international workshop “The Other Side of Sacrifice: new anthropological perspectives”, Edinburgh [2011/01/13]. 2010, “Double Presences: Proselytism and Belonging in an Angolan Prophetic Church’s Diaspora in Europe”, presented at the International Conference “African Churches in Europe – Mediating Imaginations”, Université Libre de Bruxelles [2010/12/10]. 2010, “Extending Biography: Presence, Charisma and Contact in African Prophetic Movements”, presented at the panel “Researching Spirit Biographies: Locating the Selves and Histories of Immaterial Entities in Religious Experience and Knowledge”, American Anthropological Association 2010 Annual Meeting, New Orleans [2011/11/21]. 2010, “Balandier and the Postcolonial Messiahs”, presented at the Social Anthropology Seminar, School of Oriental and African Studies, London [2010/10/27]. 2010, “Os Profetas e as Deslocações Humanas” [Prophets and Human Mobility], presented at the workshop “Mobilidade e Migrações”, Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon [2010/10/20]. 2010, “Prophets and Missionaries. notes on African Churches in Lisbon”, presented at the International Conference “Religions and Migrations in Southern Europe. Local Diversity and Global Challenges”, Porto, Portugal [2010/09/30]. 2010, “Vidas Proféticas. Liderança e Carisma na Igreja Tocoista (Angola)” [Prophetic Lives. Leadership and Charisma in the Angolan Tokoist church], presented at the international colloquim A circulação de objectos, corpos e espíritos: processos de objectivação e subjectivação nos movimentos religiosos entre África e as Américas. New University, Lisbon [2010/06/25]. 2010 (with Ramon Sarró), “This is the End. On Prophecy and Return”, presented at the Final Conference of the “Relemerge: The Re-Emergence of Religion as a Social Force in Europe” Programme, Cambridge, UK [2010/06/02-04]. 19 2009, “A church in a suitcase. Mobility, proselytism and belonging in the Tokoist church and its diaspora”, presented at the international conference Religion and Mobility in Africa and the African Diaspora, organised by the Belgian Association of Africanists and held in Tervuren, Brussels [2009/12/11-12]. 2009, “Mobility/Morality. Diaspora, imagination and territorial ascription in the Angolan Tokoist church”, presented at the international conference Migrations, Traditions and Modernities. Comparing Ethnographies, held at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon [2009/10/26-27] 2009, “Desfazendo a Etnicidade: Diáspora e universalização de um movimento profético africano” [Unmaking Ethnicity: diaspora and universalisation in an African prophetic movement”, presented at the panel “Experiências Religiosas na Contemporaneidade: identidades, fronteiras e movimentos étnicoreligiosos”, held at the VIII Reunión de Antropología del MERCOSUR, Buenos Aires, Argentina [2009/09]. 2009, “O Messias entretanto já chegou. Relendo Balandier e o profetismo africano na pós-colonia” [And the Messiah Arrived. Re-reading Balandier and African Prophetism in the Postcolony], presented at the panel “História da antropologia: diálogos com a antropologia contemporânea”, held at the IV Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association, Lisbon [2009/09/10]. 2009 (with Ramon Sarró), “Prophetic Presences: the transnational dynamics of the Kimbanguist and Tokoist churches”, presented at the panel “Christianismes Indigènes et Nations Missionaires en Europe”, held at the 30ème Conférence de la Société Internationale de Sociologie de la Réligion, Santiago de Compostela, Spain [2009/07/28]. 2009, “Mobility, diaspora and shifting territorialities in the Tokoist church”, presented at the Summer School “Lived Religion on the Move” (NORFACE Capacity Building Programme), Nijmegen, Netherlands [2009/06/02]. 2009, "Viver, morrer e voltar a viver. Métodos de memória na igreja Tokoista" ["To Live, Die and Live Again. Methods of Memory in the Tokoist Church"], presented at the 1st SID-CRIA Symposium, ISCTE, Lisbon [2009/03/20] 2008, “Discussing ‘Africa-ness’: Pentecostal churches in the Lisbon-Luanda continuum”, presented at the workshop “The Anthropology of Pentecostalism”, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, U.S.A. [2008/11/22] 2008, “Place and Recognition in the Angolan Tokoist church’s diaspora”, presented at the workshop “African Christianities in Europe: the politics of religious recognition”, 2008 European Association of Social Anthropologists Meeting, Ljubljana, Slovenia [2008/08/28] 2008, “Diásporas tokoistas: primeiras notas” [Tokoist diasporas: preliminary approaches], presented at the “Christian Atlantic” workshop, Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon. [2008/06/16] 2008, “Luso-Angolan encounters in the making of the Tokoist church”, presented at the panel ‘Christian Atlantic: Ethnographies of encounters within African, Brazilian and Portuguese Churches in Lisbon’, Inaugural Meeting of the Associação Portuguesa para o Estudo das Religiões (APER, Portuguese Association for the Study of Religion), Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon. [2008/04/04] 2008, “Succession and ‘surviving prophecy’: preliminary notes on the Tokoist movement in Angola”, presented at the Anthropology Seminar of Leiden Universiteit. [2008/03/17] 20 2007, “Portuguese anthropology in the contemporary global scene”, presented at the meeting Anthropology in Europe. Facing the Challenges of European Convergences in Higher Education and in Research. A Review of the Fields of Socio-Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology. Université Paris X, Nanterre. [2007/10/27] 2007, “Cristianismo Africano em Portugal: dados preliminares” [African Christianity in Portugal: preliminary notes], presented ‘Lunch Seminar’ of the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. [2007/10/23] 2007, “Recursos Multimédia no Trabalho de Campo Etnográfico: um experiência” [Multimedia resources in ethnographic fieldwork: an experience], seminar presented at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Coimbra Seminar. [2007/05/02] 2006, “From Caravans to Boats: The Religious Mediation of Gypsy Identities in Portugal and Spain”, presented at the IUAES congress Transcending Postcolonial Conditions: Towards Alternative Modernities, Cape Town University, South Africa. [2006/12/03] 2006, “Igrejas Evangélicas como Mediadores Culturais: o caso da Igreja Filadélfia Cigana em Portugal e Espanha” [Evangelical churches as cultural mediators: the case of the Filadelfia Church in Portugal and Spain], paper presented at the IX Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro de Ciências Sociais, realizado em Luanda, Angola. [2006/11/03] 2006, “‘We Believed in God, We Just Didn’t Know Who he Was’: Defining Faith Among Portuguese and Spanish Pentecostal Gypsies”, paper presented at the workshop “New Perspectives on European th Christianity” in the 9 EASA Biennial Conference, Bristol, UK. [2006/09/19] 2006, “Mimese, Disfarce ou Agência: os Ciganos entre o Catolicismo e o Pentecostalismo” [Mimesis, disguise or agency: the Gypsies between Catholicism and Pentecostalism], paper presented at the panel “Pluralismo Religioso: Novas Abordagens Etnográficas”, no âmbito do III Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon. [2006/04/07] 2006, “As Vantagens da Marginalidade: A Igreja Evangélica Filadélfia em Portugal e Espanha” [The advantages of marginality: the Filadelfia Church in Portugal and Spain], paper presented at the meeting Os Caminhos da Alteridade: Os Ciganos na Península Ibérica (Etnografia, Práticas e Políticas), New University, Lisbon. [2006/02/22] 2005, “Musical Markets for God? Reflections from the Gypsy Filadelfia churches in Portugal and Spain”, th paper presented at the 50 Meeting of the Society of Ethnomusicology, Atlanta, GA. [2005/11/17] 2005, “Un Mercado Musical Cristiano y Gitano. Reflexiones desde la Iglesia Evangélica de Filadelfia en Portugal y España” [A Christian Gypsy musical market. Reflections from the Filadelfia Evangelical Church in Portugal and Spain], paper presented at the X Congreso de las Federaciones de Antropología de España, Seville, Spain. [2005/09/19] 2005, “«Musical Traditions» and the Construction of Discrepancies. Reflections on Musical Practice and Transmission in a Gypsy Pentecostal Movement”, paper presented at the summit Learning Religion, Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon. [2005/09/08] 2005, “Música, Ritual y Experiencia. Reflexiones desde la Iglesia Evangélica de Filadelfia” [Music, ritual 21 and experience. Reflections from the Filadelfia Evangelical Church], paper presented at the GRIPO (Grupo sobre Ritual y Poder – Institut Catalá d’Antropologia), realizado em Barcelona, Espanha. [2005/06/12] 2005, “Music as Discourse. On Gypsy Pentecostal Music and its Configurations”, paper presented at the XIX World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Tokyo, Japan. [2005/03/29] 2004, “O Culto como Ritual. Música, Praxis Religiosa e Objectos Teóricos” [The Pentecostal service as ritual. Music, religious praxis and theoretical objects], paper presented at the Anthropology Seminar of the Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon. [2004/11/10] 2004, “A Música na Construção de uma Identidade Religiosa: o caso dos ciganos evangélicos em Portugal” [Music in the construction of a religious identity], paper presented at the VIII Congresso LusoAfro-Brasileiro de Ciências Sociais, Coimbra, Portugal. [2004/09/16] 2004, “Atheist Anthropologists. Believers and Non-Believers in Anthropological Fieldwork”, paper th presented at the “Young Scholars’ Fórum” plenary of the 8 Biennial EASA Conference, Vienna, Austria. [2004/09/12] 2004, “Les Tsiganes Pentecôtistes Portugais et leur Musique” [The Portuguese pentecostal Gypsies and their music], paper presented at the Seminaire de Recherche du Centre de Recherches Tsiganes (CRT) e do Groupe pour l’Étude de la Culture et de la Solidarité (GEPECS) da Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales – Sorbonne (Université Renée Descartes – Paris V), Paris. [2004/04/07] 2004, “Antropólogos Ateus. O lugar da crença na ciência social” [Atheist anthropologist. The role of faith in social science], paper presented at the Postgraduate Seminar of the Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon. [2004/01/30] 2003, “Em Nome da Interdenominacionalidade – ligações transnacionais e “novas” práticas musicais entre os ciganos evangélicos portugueses” [In the Name of Interdenominationalism: trasnational connections and “new” musical practices among Portuguese Pentecostal Gypsies], paper presented at the summit Sonoridades no Espaço Luso-Afro-Brasileiro, Institute of Social Sciences and Museum of Ethnology, Lisbon. [2003/11/23] 22