Articles and Special Issues
Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios, Eugenia Roussou and Silvia Rivadossi 2024. 'Spiritual Elasticity and Crisis: an Introduction.'
In Special Issue: ‘Spiritual Elasticity and Crisis: From Non-religiosity to Transreligiosity’, edited by Eugenia Roussou, Silvia Rivadossi ans Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. Religions 2023, 14, ISSN 2077-1444
Martins, Joana. Forthcoming. 'Threads of Healing and Well-Being in a world in Crisis: Contemporary Pagans transreligious responses to healing in Portugal'
In Etnográfica
Book Chapters
Roussou, Eugenia. 2025. 'Religion, Spirituality, Episteme: Transreligious Epistemologies to Health, Wellbeing and COVID-19.'
In Karen O’brien-Kop and Suzanne Newcombe (eds.), Competing Epistemologies, Religion and Public Health. London and Liverpool: The British Academy and Liverpool University Press, pp. 41-58.
Conference Papers
Roussou, Eugenia; Joana Martins. 2023. 'Practices of Transreligiosity and Well-Being in Portugal: Two Ethnographic Examples.'
Paper at the 8th Conference of RELIMM - Religiões nas Múltiplas Religiosidades, 22-23 June 2023, Lisbon, Portugal.
Roussou, Eugenia. 2023. 'Epistemologies of Contemporary Spirituality and Healing after Covid: Pluralising Afflictions, Competing Beliefs.'
Paper at the International Conference ‘Beliefs, Religious Worldviews and Public Health after Covid: Plural/Competing Epistemologies’, organised by Suzanne Newcombe and Karen O’brien-Kop, British Academy/Wellcome Trust, 26-27 May 2023, London, UK.
Muñoz Villalon, Luis. 2024. a) 'Sociedad postsecular y espiritualidades católicas. Diálogos en las fronteras religoso- espirituales.' b) '"Como si presente me hallase". Participación radical y análisis en una autoetnografía mistagógica.'
Two papers at the International Conference 'II Simposio Internacional sobre Místicas y Heterodoxias Religiosas', 31 January – 2 February 2024, Barcelona, Spain.
Martins, Joana. 2024. 'Reconnecting and Regenerating for the Future: the engagement of Ecologically-oriented Contemporary Pagans with ecological myths, rituals and practices in Portugal and the United Kingdom.'
Paper at the 7th International Conference of The European Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment 'Myth, Ritual And Practice For The Age Of Ecological Catastrophe', 17-19 May 2024, Universität Potsdam, Germany, online.
Pierini, Emily. 2024. 'Tracing Dr Sousa Martins: Mapping Healing in Portugal.'
Paper at the International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism (ISARS) Conference 'Tracing Shamanism: Presence, Absence, Transformation, Possibilities', Rome, Italy, 5-8 June 2024.
Roussou, Eugenia. 2024. 'Transreligious Traces of (Neo)Shamanism: Elasticity, Affect, Creativity.'
Paper at the International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism (ISARS) Conference 'Tracing Shamanism: Presence, Absence, Transformation, Possibilities', Rome, Italy, 5-8 June 2024.
Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios. 2024. 'To be or not to be? Existential questions posed in contemporary religiosity.'
Paper at the EASA 2024 International Conference of The European Association of Social Anthropologists 'Doing and Undoing Anthropology', 18, 23-26 July 2024, Barcelona, Spain and online.
Muñoz Villalon, Luis. 2024. 'The Third Method of Prayer. Deep Breathing Prayer, dwelling silence and detachment in Ignatian spirituality.'
Paper at the EASA 2024 International Conference of The European Association of Social Anthropologists 'Doing and Undoing Anthropology', 18, 23-26 July 2024, Barcelona, Spain and online.
Martins, Joana. 2024. 'Being, belonging, and relating: methodological challenges while doing ethnography in the context of contemporary paganism in Portugal.'
Paper at the EASA 2024 International Conference of The European Association of Social Anthropologists 'Doing and Undoing Anthropology', 18, 23-26 July 2024, Barcelona, Spain and online.
Roussou, Eugenia. 2024. 'Elastic Identities, Religio-Spiritual Selves: Emptying, Filling, Transforming in Contemporary Religiosity.'
Paper at the EASA 2024 International Conference of The European Association of Social Anthropologists 'Doing and Undoing Anthropology', 18, 23-26 July 2024, Barcelona, Spain and online.
Riboli, Diana. 2024. 'The Cosmic Drama: Environmental Disasters, Human and Other-than-Human Beings among the Chepang (Nepal).'
Paper at the EASA 2024 International Conference of The European Association of Social Anthropologists 'Doing and Undoing Anthropology', 18, 23-26 July 2024, Barcelona, Spain and online.
Martins, Joana. 2024. 'Ser humano-planta-árvore-terra: Abordagens religioespirituais de cura, bem-estar e reconexão ao ambiente no contexto do Paganismo Contemporâneo em Portugal.'
Paper at the International Conference 'IV Encontro Internacional da Rede de Antropologia Ambiental - Desafios Ambientais Mais do que Humanos em Tempos Acelerados: Existências, Incertezas e Futuros', 12-14 September 2024, Lisbon, Portugal.
Riboli, Diana. 2024. '"Humans without a Forest are Humans on the Verge of Death". Indigenous Philosophies, Climate Change, and Environmental Disasters.'
Paper at the International Conference 'Environmental changes, global challenges, and livelihoods: discourses and practices', 24-25 October, University of Macerata, Italy.
Martins, Joana. 2024. 'Echoes of the Ancestors, blessed by the Gods: Contemporary Pagans responses to environmental challenges in Portugal.'
Paper at the MYNA International Conference 'Pastoralism in transition: Exploring intersections of religious and environmental changes', 6-8 November 2024, Lisbon, Portugal.
Muñoz Villalón, Luis. 2025. 'La clave es estar abierto al espíritu'.
Paper presented at the XV Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Ciencias de las Religiones «Religión, salud, curación», 28-30 May 2025, Universidad de León in Spain.
Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios. 2025. 'La sociedad en tiempos de la soledad: una mirada antropológica a la conspiritualidad.'
Paper at the international conference of the association: Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red (AIBR), 1-4 June 2025, Santander, Spain.
Martins, Joana. 2025. 'The Power of root, leaf and flower: the therapeutic uses of plants to promote health and well-being among Pagan women in Portugal.'
Paper presented at the 17th International SIEF Congress, 3-6 June 2025 University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Muñoz, Vilallon, Luis. 2025. 'The key is to be open to the spirit. Autoethnography with catholic mystical experiences from the ontological drift.'
Paper presented at the 17th International SIEF Congress, 3-6 June 2025, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Koutsougera, Natalia. 2025. Presentation of Film 'Element of Hope'.
"Hip and the Street" Conference, 8th Meeting of the European Hiphop Studies Network, 5-7 June 2025, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece.
Pierini, Emily. 2025. 'Doctors, Saints, and Spirits: Therapeutic Itineraries between Spirituality and Biomedicine.'
Paper at the International Conference ‘Spiritualities and Healing in Global and Transhistorical Perspectives’, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, co-organized with Harvard University, Università Ca’ Foscari, HEAL Network for the Ethnography of Healing, Venice, Italy, 10-12 June 2025.
Pierini, Emily. 2025. 'The Worship of Dr Sousa Martins: Therapeutic Ititneraries in Portugal.'
Paper at the Conference of the Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (APA2025), 14-18 June 2025, Viana do Castelo, Portugal.
Martins, Natasha. 2025. 'A TRANSRELIGIOSIDADE NO BENZIMENTO PORTUGUÊS : A Antropologia na encruzilhada.'
Paper at the Conference of the Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (APA2025), 14-18 June 2025, Viana do Castelo, Portugal.
Martins, Joana. 2025. 'Bruxas em Resistência: a intersecção do (eco)feminismo e da espiritualidade na vivência de pessoas bruxas e pagãs em Portugal.'
Paper at the Conference of the Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (APA2025), 14-18 June 2025, Viana do Castelo, Portugal.
Martins, Natasha. 2025. 'Benzimentos, Itinerâncias e Resistências: Portugal e América Latina em Diálogo.'
Paper at the IX Congresso Latino-Americano de Gênero e Religião, 28 August 2025, São Leopoldo, Brasil.
Martins, Natasha. 2025. 'Between herbs and prayers: Portuguese benzimentos, rituals of healing and well-being.'
Paper at the World Anthropological Union (WAU) confererence, 3–8 November 2025, Antigua, Guatemala.
Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios. 2025. 'Religion as an obstacle: the hauntings of the Afro-Cuban polytheistic cosmos.'
Paper at the international conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), 19-23 November 2025, New Orleans, U.S.A.
Muñoz Villalon, Luis. 2026. 'El catolicismo ante las espiritualidades holísticas: entre las disputas de legitimidad, estrategias de desacreditación, hibridaciones, y/o apropiaciones.'
Paper at REDIR (Red de Estudios sobre la Diversidad Religiosa), 19 and 20 March 2026, National Museum of Anthropology, Madrid.
Martins, Joana. 2026. 'The Sight that Weave us Together: the magical practice of tarot towards personal and collective wellbeing within contemporary paganism in Portugal.'
Paper at the Tarot Cultures Conference, 12-13 June 2026, Goldsmith University, London. – In collaboration with Lykaia, ReSpell interlocutor
Roussou, Eugenia. 2026. 'Syncretism, Transreligiosity, Continuity: Reflections on An Anthropology of Religion.'
Paper at the International Conference 'Greek Ethnography and Imagination: Society, Religion, History -- Inspired by Charles Stewart.' 24 June 2026, Princeton Athens Center, Athens, Greece.
Roussou, Eugenia. 2026. 'Belief in Flux: Conspiracy Narratives and Contemporary Spirituality in Greece.'
Paper at the EASA2026 International Conference 'Anthropology: Possibilities in a Polarised World', 21-24 July 2026, Poznán, Poland.
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