University of Bergen

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Books (author)

2014, A Prophetic Trajectory. Ideologies of Time and Space in an Angolan Religious 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] Link.

Books (editor)

2013, The Social Life of Spirits. Edited with Diana Espírito Santo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [ISBN: 978-0-226-08177-9 . Link.

2013, Sites and Politics of Religious Diversity in Southern Europe. Edited with José Mapril. Leiden: Brill [ISBN: 978-900425523-4]. Link.

2011, Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices: Anthropological Reflections. Edited with Anna Fedele. Oxford: Berghahn. [ISBN: 978-9728955-54-0]. Link.

2008, A Globalização no Divã [Globalisation on the Couch]. Edited with Renato do Carmo and Daniel Melo. Lisbon: Tinta da China. [ISBN:978-9728955-54-0] Link (Open Access).

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] Edited with Manuela Cantón Delgado and Mónica Cornejo Valle.  Donostia, Spain: FAAEE. [ISBN: 13-978-84-691-4962-1]. Link (Open Access).

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).Link (Open Access).

2008, “European Christianities at the turn of the Millennium: ethnographic approaches”, Dossier edited with Ramon Sarró for Etnográfica, volume 12, number 2 November 2008. Link (Open Access).

Articles in peer-reviewed 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. Link (Open Access).

2013, ”Time for Self-Sacrifice: Temporal Narratives, Politics and Ideals in African Prophetism“, Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (online). Link.

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. Link (Open Access).

2012, “Moral Circumscriptions: Involuntary Mobility, Diaspora and Ideological Configurations in the Angolan Tokoist Church“, Canadian Journal of African Studies 46 (3): 367-380. Link.

2012, “O Tempo dos Inimigos. Reflexões sobre uma Antropologia da Repressão no Século XXI” [The Time of the Enemies. Reflections on an Anthropology of Repression in the 21st Century], Horizontes Antropológicos 18 (37): 261-284. Link (Open Access).

2011, “Double Presence. Proselytism and Belonging in an Angolan Prophetic Church’s Diaspora”, Journal of Religion in Europe 4 (3): 409-428. Link.

2011, “Unstable Biographies: The Ethnography of Memory and Historicity in an Angolan Prophetic Movement”,History and Anthropology 22 (1): 93-119. Link.

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. Link (Open Access).

2009, “O Que se Passa Tabernáculo? Oração e Espacialização na Igreja Tokoista Angolana” [What is going on in the Tabernacle? Prayer and Spatialization in the Angolan Tokoist Church], Religião e Sociedade 29 (2): 116-133. Link (Open Access).

2009, “Remembering and Suffering: Memory and Shifting Allegiances in the Angolan Tokoist Church”. Exchange38 (2): 161-181. Link.

2009, “Prophetic Diasporas: Moving Religion across the Lusophone Atlantic”, co-author with Ramon Sarró. African Diaspora 2 (1): 52-72. Link (Open Access).

2008, “La Guerre en temps de Paix. Ethnicité et Angolanité dans l’Église Kimbanguiste de Luanda”, co-author with Ramon Sarró and Fátima Viegas. Politique Africaine 110: 84-101. [Special issue on “L’Angola dans la paix. Autoritarisme et reconversions”, coordinated by Didier Péclard]. Link.

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. Link.

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.

2007, “Why Africans do what they do. Arguments, discussions and religious transmission in Angolan Pentecostal churches in Lisbon”, Quaderns del ICA 23 (7): 123-137. [Special Issue on “Religion and Cognition”, coordinated by Carles Salazar]. Link (Open Access).

2007, “Contacto, Conhecimento e Conflito. Dinâmicas cultuais e sociais num movimento evangélico cigano na Península Ibérica”, [Contact, knowledge and conflict. Social and liturgical dynamics in an evangelical Gypsy movement in the Iberian Peninsula] Etnográfica 11 (2): 29-54. Link (Open Access).

2006, “The Atheist Anthropologist. Believers and Non-Believers in Anthropological Fieldwork”, Social Anthropology 14 (2): 223-234. Link (Open Access).

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. Link.

Chapters in 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. Link.

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” (republication), in STEWART, Michael and Patrick Williams (eds), Des Tsiganes en Europe. Paris: Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, pp. 219-248. Link.

2011, “Simão Gonçalves Toco (1918-1984), religious leader”, in AKYEAMPONG, Emmanuel and Henry L. Gates (eds). Dictionary of African Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

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, pp. 69-92. Link.

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.

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 & José Alberto Simões (orgs.), A Produção das Mobilidades: Redes, espacialidades e trajectos num mundo em globalização. Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, pp. 247-262. Link.

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. Link.

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. Link.

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-Afro-Brasileiras.  Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 382 pp. [ISBN: 978-9726711-30-8] Link.

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, 1-32.

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, 1-18.

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. Link.

2009, “Apresentação” [Presentation], co-author with Ramon Sarró. Análise Social 190 (XLIV), pp. 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. Link (Open Access).

2008, “European Christianities at the Turn of the Millennium: an Introduction”, co-author with Ramon Sarró.Etnográfica 12 (2), pp. 371-376. Link (Open Access).

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. Link (Open Access).

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. Link.

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. Link (Open Access).