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Doctorate

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Full members

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Circulation and Place-Making

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Portugal

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Religion | Spirituality | Contemporary Paganism | Ecology | Gender | Power | Care

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NOVA FCSH

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Joana Martins (She/Her) has a PhD (2023) in Anthropology from Iscte - Lisbon University Institute. She has been researching Contemporary Paganism in Portugal since 2016 and approached British contemporary paganism to an extent during her PhD research. Her research interests focus on the lived religion and spirituality of contemporary pagans, gender, care, environmental and ecological questions, power, politics, and ritual creativity. Her approaches are inspired by feminist anthropological theory and methodology. She is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the project ReSpell: Religião, Espiritualidade e Bem-Estar. Uma Abordagem Comparativa de Transreligiosidade e Crise no Sul da Europa (ref.: 2022.01229.PTDC), funded by national funds through FCT I.P.

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Integrated (2023-12-01)

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public.data_updated_at 19-10-2025, public.from_platform public.cv_cienciapublic.cv_vitae.

2023/12-2026

Religion, Spirituality and Wellbeing: a Comparative Approach of Transreligiosity and Crisis in Southern Europe

2022.01229.PTDC

Post-doc Fellow

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

public.financiers: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

2018/10/01-2023

Teias de plenitude e transformação: o impacto social e político dos discursos neopagãos em Portugal e no Reino Unido

SFRH/BD/138893/2018

PhD Student Fellow

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

public.financiers: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

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public.data_updated_at 05-05-2024 , public.from_platform public.cv_cienciapublic.cv_vitae .

Thesis / Dissertation

Connecting with the Great Mother, Regenerating Us: Environmental Activism, Gender Relations and Power Dynamics in Contemporary Paganism in Portugal

phd. ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa . 06-2023. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/30284 .

Journal article

Connect and Celebrate the Great Mother Online: The Ritual Creativity of Contemporary Pagans in Portugal and the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 Restrictions

Martins, Joana, Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. 48 - 66. 2. 27. 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2023.27.2.48 . 10.1525/nr.2023.27.2.48 . publishedNova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions

Book chapter

'Um Todo Sagrado chamado Natureza': Paganismo Contemporâneo e os usos e negociações do espaço sagrado Português

Martins, Joana, Ensaios sobre Comida e sobre Religião. Centro de Estudos Regionais. Viana do Castelo, Portugal. 2023. published


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public.data_updated_at 19-10-2025 , public.from_platform public.cv_cienciapublic.cv_vitae .

Journal article

The Power of the Bruxa: Resistance, Empowerment and Transreligiosity in the Everyday of Contemporary Pagan Women in Portugal

Martins, Joana, Religions. 9. 16. 2025. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16091119 . 10.3390/rel16091119 . published

Online resource

Caring for the future: Contemporary Pagans & engagement with environmentalismin Portugal and the United Kingdom", Blog Entrance for The Religion Factor, University of Groningen

Martins, Joana, 04-2024. https://www.rug.nl/research/centre-for-religious-studies/research-centres/centre-religion-conflict-globalization/blog/caring-for-the-future-contemporary-pagans-engagement-with-environmentalismin-portugal-and-the-uni .

Thesis / Dissertation

Connecting with the Great Mother, Regenerating Us: Environmental Activism, Gender Relations and Power Dynamics in Contemporary Paganism in Portugal

phd. ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa . 06-2023. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/30284 .

Journal article

Connect and Celebrate the Great Mother Online: The Ritual Creativity of Contemporary Pagans in Portugal and the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 Restrictions

Martins, Joana, Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. 48 - 66. 2. 27. 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2023.27.2.48 . 10.1525/nr.2023.27.2.48 . published

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public.data_updated_at 11-12-2022, public.from_platform public.cv_cienciapublic.cv_vitae.

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(PARA) LÁ DO/NO ECRÃ ESPOLETA A PRIMAVERA

Martins, Joana, 2020