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Publications.

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Monograph:

 

2021     Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion: The Evil Eye in Greece. London: Bloomsbury.

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Edited Books:

 

2019    Expressions of Religion: Ethnography, Performance and the Senses (edited by Eugenia Roussou, Clara Saraiva and István Povedák). Berlin: Lit-Verlag.

 

 

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Book Chapters:

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2019    Introduction: Expressions of Religion-Ethnography, Performance and the Senses (with Clara Saraiva and István Povedák), in Eugenia Roussou, Clara Saraiva and István Povedák (eds.), Expressions of Religion: Ethnography, Performance and the Senses, Berlin: Lit-Verlag, pp. 7-14. 

 

2018     Spiritual movements in times of crisis: an anthropological account of alternative spirituality in Portugal and Greece, in George Chryssides (ed.), Minority Religions in Europe and the Middle East: mapping and monitoring. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 52-64.

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2017     The Syncretic Religioscape of contemporary Greece and Portugal: a comparative approach on creativity through spiritual synthesis, in Stefania Palmisano and Nicola Pannofino (eds.), Invention of Tradition and Syncretism in Contemporary Religions: Sacred Creativity. New York: Palgrave McMillan, pp. 155-175.

 

2013     The New Age of Greek Orthodoxy: pluralizing religiosity in everyday practice, in Jose Mapril and Ruy Blanes (eds.), The Best of All Gods: Sites and Politics of Religious Diversity in Southern Europe, Leiden: Brill, pp. 73-92.

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2013     Spirituality within Religion: Gendered Responses to a Greek ‘spiritual revolution’, in Anna Fedele and Kim Knibbe (eds.), Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality: Ethnographic Approaches, London: Routledge, pp. 46-61.

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2011      When Soma Encounters the Spiritual: Bodily Praxes of Performed Religiosity in contemporary Greece, in Ruy Blanes and Anna Fedele (eds.), Beyond Body and Soul: Anthropological Approaches to Corporeality in Contemporary Religion, London: Berghahn, pp. 133-150.

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Peer Reviewed Articles:

 

Forthcoming    Living Religion between Orthodox Christianity and New Age Spirituality in Greece: Gender and Power. Insaniyat.

 

Forthcoming    Transnational Spirituality and Healing: an Ethnographic Exploration of Alternative Medicine in Lisbon and Athens. Anthropology and Medicine.

 

2016     The Transformation of Religiosity in Portugal and Greece: an ethnographic comparison of new spirituality and religious pluralism in southern Europe. Rever 16 (3): 66-80 (in portuguese).

 

2015     From Socialization to Individualization: A New Challenge for Portuguese Religiosity. Italian Journal of Sociology of Education 7 (3): 89-112.

 

2014    Believing in the Supernatural through the “evil eye”: Perception and Science in the modern Greek Cosmos. Journal of Contemporary Religion 29 (3): 425-438.

 

2011      Orthodoxy at the Crossroads: Popular Religion and Greek Identity in the evil eye practice. Journal of Mediterranean Studies 20 (1): 85-105.

 

 

Other Publications:

 

2020      Holistic Healing and Wellness in Southern Europe: Practicing virtual (auto)ethnography in pandemic times. In Online Exhibition ‘COVID-19: Concepts of Sickness and Wellness’, curator responsible: Devorah Romanek, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

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2020    ‘Kako Mati’ (Evil Eye), Encyclopedia Entry, Global Informality Project, UCL, University of London.

 

2015      The Material Culture of the Evil Eye: Merging Orthodoxy and New Age Spirituality in Greece. Web blog post in Material Religions website. 

 

2015       Portuguese religiosity in transformation: an anthropological discussion of contemporary “new spirituality” in Lisbon of crisis (in portuguese), in J. Antero, S. Marivoet (eds.), Anais do I Congresso Lusófono de Ciência das Religiões: Religiões e Espiritualidades, Culturas e Identidades, vol. XVI, Lisboa, Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, pp. 39-50.

 

 

Book Reviews

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2020      Pierini, Emily. 2020. Jaguars of the Dawn: Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer. London: Berghahn. in Religion and Society 11 (1): 220-1.

 

2016      Bull, Michael, and Jon P. Mitchell (eds.), 2015, Ritual, Performance and the Senses. London: Bloomsbury, in Religion and Society 7: 147-149.

 

2015     Victor Roudometof, 2014, Globalization and Orthodox Christianity: The Transformations of a Religious Tradition. New York and London: Routledge, in International Sociology 30 (5): 490-493.

 

2014      Anna Fedele, 2013, Looking for Mary Magdalene: An Alternative Pilgrimage and Ritual Creativity at Catholic Shrines in France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, in Women's Studies 43: 843-846.

 

2011    Kathryn Rountree, 2010, Crafting Contemporary Pagan Identities in a Catholic Society, Surrey and Burlington: Ashgate, in Culture and Religion 12 (1): 105-107.

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