About
Research Context
Brazil | Italy | Portugal | UK
Research Interests
religion | spirituality and health | spirit mediumship | transnational religions
Institutional Subunit
ISCTE
Biographical Note
Marie Curie Fellow in Anthropology at Sapienza University of Rome. PhD in Social Anthropology (University of Bristol). Visiting Scholar at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina and University of Oxford. She has conducted research in the Vale do Amanhecer (Brazil, Europe), Afro-Brazilian religions (Brazil), and on Goddess Spirituality (UK, Italy). Her work focuses on spirit mediumship and healing, embodied knowledge, religious learning and sensory experience, body and self, and transnational religions. Author of the book 'Jaguars of the Dawn: Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer' (Berghahn, 2020). She is co-coordinator of ‘HEAL - Network for the Ethnography of Healing’.
Bonds
Visitor (2022-03-14 to 2022-04-05)
All projects
Data updated on 19-03-2025, from platform CIÊNCIAVITAE.
2020-2023
Marie Curie IF - THETRANCE - Transnational Healing: Therapeutic Trajectories in Spiritual Trance
grant agreement No 895395
Financiers: European Commission
2009/11-2010/06
Brazilian National Survey of Afro-Brazilian Religions in the Federal District INRC
Nº 01551.000479/2009-57
Supervisor
Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional
Financiers: Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional
All Publications
Data updated on 19-03-2025 , from platform CIÊNCIAVITAE .
Book review
Spirituality and Wellbeing: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Religion and Health
04-05-2021. Published
Book chapter
Categorie Evanescenti: Le Pratiche Medianiche nel Meshwork Religioso Brasiliano
Definire il Pluralismo Religioso . Alessandro Saggioro. Morcelliana. Brescia, Italy. 2020. Published
Book chapter
Incontri Incorporati: Pratiche Medianiche e Etnografia del Sentire
Corpi Sciamanici: La Nozione di Persona nello Studio dello Sciamanesimo. Sergio Botta; Marianna Ferrara. Nuova Cultura. Rome, Italy. 2017. Published
Book chapter
Fieldwork and Embodied Knowledge: Researching the Experiences of Spirit Mediums in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer
Pierini, Emily, The Study of Religious Experience: Approaches and Methodologies. Bettina Schmidt. Equinox. London, United Kingdom. 2016. Published
Journal article
Introduction. Fieldwork in Religion: Bodily Experience and Ethnographic Knowledge
Emily Pierini; Alberto Groisman , Journal for the Study of Religious Experience . 1 - 6. 2. 2016. https://rerc-journal.tsd.ac.uk/index.php/religiousexp/article/view/27 . Published
Journal article
Embodied Encounters: Ethnographic Knowledge, Emotion and Senses in the Vale do Amanhecer’s Spirit Mediumship
Journal for the Study of Religious Experience. 25 - 49. 2. 2016. https://rerc-journal.tsd.ac.uk/index.php/religiousexp/article/view/23 . Published
Journal issue
Fieldwork in Religion: Bodily Experience and Ethnographic Knowledge
Journal for the Study of Religious Experience. 2. 2016. https://rerc-journal.tsd.ac.uk/index.php/religiousexp/issue/view/4 . Published
