Donizete Aparecido Rodrigues

Donizete Rodrigues (born in 1959), Bachelor in Social Sciences (Geography), Master's degree in Social Anthropology (University of São Paulo, Brazil) ? institution where he was assistant professor (1986-1992) - and PhD in Social Anthropology (Coimbra University, Portugal). Today is Associate Professor (with Habilitation) in Sociology at the University of Beira Interior ? where he was Dean of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences (1997-2000) - and Senior-researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal. He was 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 the 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 countries: Spain, Sweden, France, England, Romania, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Croatia, Kosovo, Ukraine, Moldova, Albania, 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 Amazon, Brazil?. Published hundreds of scientific articles (many of them Scopus, Web of science and JCR), sixteen books, four special issues-journal co-editor, and 45 books chapters. The most important works in English are: The Religious Phenomenon: an inter-disciplinary approach (Spain, 2000); The God of the New Millennium: An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion ? preface by Bryan Wilson (Portugal, 2002); four entries in the Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements (Routledge, 2006); chapters in Ecologies of Faith in New York City (Indiana University Press, 2012) and in The Changing Soul of Europe: Religions and Migrations in Northern and Southern Europe (Ashgate, 2014); e-book Jesus in Sacred Gotham: Brazilian Immigrants and Pentecostalism in New York City (USA, Amazon Publishing, 2014); Portuguese Studies Review (Canada, special issue, co-editor, 2019); ?How to Study Religion? (2023).

Doutorado em Antropologia Social pela Universidade de Coimbra, é Professor Associado com Agregação/Livre-Docência do Departamento de Sociologia da Universidade da Beira Interior, onde foi diretor da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas. É ainda Investigador-sénior do Center for Research in Anthropology (Nova University of Lisbon). Foi Professor Titular convidado (1995-2011) do programa de Doutoramento em Sociologia e Antropologia da Universidade de Salamanca (Espanha) e Professor-visitante em várias universidades estrangeiras (Inglaterra, França, Suécia, Itália, Roménia, Índia, Brasil, Canadá, Japão, Letónia, Lituânia, Israel, Kosovo, Albânia, Ucrânia e Moldávia). Foi Visiting-Fellow (2009-2010) no Departamento de Religião da Columbia University (New York, EUA); investigador-associado do Center for the Study of Latin American Pentecostalism (University of Southern California) e professor colaborador do programa de doutoramento em ciências humanas e sociais da Universidade Federal do ABC (São Paulo). Atualmente, é professor colaborador do PPG-Ciências da Religião da Universidade do Estado do Pará. Fez parte do grupo de trabalho da Oxford University que editou a Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements (New York, Routledge, 2006), onde colaborou com vários artigos. Para além de capítulos de livros em editoras de grande prestígio (Indiana University Press, Ashgate) e artigos publicados em várias revistas estrangeiras, do conjunto das suas obras destacam-se vários livros (em português e inglês) na área da Antropologia/Sociologia da religião.