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Master's

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Circulation and Place-Making

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Portugal | Mozambique | Angola | United Kingdom

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Anthropology of Islam | Religion and Migrations | Religious Diversity in Portugal | Transnationalism and Charisma

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NOVA FCSH

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Pedro Pestana Soares is a doctoral student in Anthropology at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where he researches Sufi-inspired Islamic movements in the outskirts of Lisbon, their transnational articulations, and the suburban setllement of Muslim communities in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. In 2016, he completed his Masters in Anthropology at ISCTE-IUL, with an ethnography of Angolan Catholic missions that host children accused of witchcraft. Previously, as a member of Númena - Research Centre in Social Sciences and Humanities, he worked on minority religions and religious discrimination in Portugal and integrated the multidisciplinary team of "The Pilgrimage Project: A Study of Motivations and Experiences in Sacred Spaces", undertaking fieldwork in several Christian and Neopagan pilgrimage sites around Europe. He was the recipient of the first edition of the Religious Liberty Prize, awarded by the Commission for Religion Freedom for the research project "Religious Discrimination through the Eyes of Minority Confessions".

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Collaborator (2025-01-01)

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

2024/02/01-2024/07/31

NaMoura - Na Mouraria: Património, (in)seguranças e imaginários urbanos no centro histórico de Lisboa

PExCRIA/2023.2/NaMoura

Research Fellow

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia; ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

public.financiers: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

2023/02/27-2023/12/31

Estudo Sobre a Integração Social das Pessoas e Comunidade Muçulmana no Concelho de Sintra

CT-22/01273

Researcher

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

public.financiers: Câmara Municipal de Sintra

2017/09-2021/09

As Viagens da Barakah: Legados Indo-moçambicanos e Carisma no Espaço Transnacional Islâmico

SFRH/BD/131935/2017

PhD Student Fellow

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas; Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

public.financiers: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

2012/07-2013/04

Um estudo etnográfico sobre o acolhimento e reintegração social de crianças acusadas de feitiçaria em Angola

BI n.º10/2012

public.financiers: Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa

2007/03-2010/02

The pilgrimage project: A study of motivations and experiences in sacred spaces

PT/FB/BL-2006-062

public.financiers: Fundação Bial

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Online resource

CRIAções - Projeto Na Mouraria: Património, (in)seguranças e imaginários urbanos no centro histórico de Lisboa

Lazzaretti, Vera; Soares, Pedro Pestana; Marçano, Isabel, 2025. https://heyzine.com/flip-book/033d00e48b.html .

Book chapter

Portugal in the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe 15

José Mapril; Soares, Pedro Pestana, Yearbook of Muslims in Europe . Brill Publisher. Leiden, Netherlands. 2024. published

Book chapter

Portugal

Pedro Pestana Soares; José Mapril, Yearbook of Muslims in Europe. Samim Akg{\. Brill. 2022. published

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Portugal in Yearbook of Muslims 14

Soares, Pedro Pestana; Mapril, José, Yearbook of Muslims in Europe. Brill . Leiden, Netherlands. 2022. published

Book chapter

Portugal in Yearbook of Muslims 14

Soares, Pedro Pestana; Mapril, José, Yearbook of Muslims in Europe. Brill . Leiden, Netherlands. 2022. published

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Portugal

Soares, Pedro Pestana; Mapril, José, Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Volume 13. Brill. Leiden, Netherlands. 2021. published

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Portugal in Yearbook of Muslims 13

Mapril, José; Soares, Pedro Pestana, Yearbook of Muslims 13. Brill. Leiden, Netherlands. 2021. published

Journal article

"És feiticeiro, então já estudas": Crianças em risco, agencialidade e mobilidade social em Angola

Pedro Pestana Soares, Mana. 3. 27. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-49442021v27n3a202 . 10.1590/1678-49442021v27n3a202 . published

Journal article

Islamic Landscapes in Lisbon Metropolitan Area: (Post)colonialism and Politics of Recognition | Paisagens islâmicas na Área Metropolitana de Lisboa: (pós)colonialismo e políticas de reconhecimento

Carvalheira, Raquel; Mapril, José; Soares, Pedro Pestana, Lusotopie. 157 - 180. 2. 19. 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17683084-12341759 . 10.1163/17683084-12341759 . published

Book chapter

Portugal in Yearbook of Muslims 13

Mapril, José; Soares, Pedro Pestana, Yearbook of Muslims 13. Brill. Leiden, Netherlands. 2021. published

Encyclopedia entry

Portugal, Yearbook of Muslims in Europe

Carvalheira, Raquel; Mapril, José; Soares, Pedro Pestana, Yearbook of Muslims in Europe. 505 - 521. 11. Brill. Leiden, Netherlands. 2020. https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/56496 . published

Book chapter

Portugal

Soares, Pedro; José Mapril, Yearbook of Muslims in Europe. Brill. Leiden, Netherlands. 2020. published

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Sustaining the periphery: Transnational Articulations of Portuguese Barelwi Muslims

Soares, Pedro, Muslims in the UK and Europe V. Paul Anderson; Julian Hargreaves. Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge. Cambridge, United Kingdom. 2020. published

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"Portugal". In Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, editado por Oliver Scharbrodt, 536-550. Reino Unido: Brill Publishers, 2018.

Mapril, José; Soares, Pedro; Almodovar, Laura, Yearbook of Muslims in Europe. Scharbrodt, Oliver. Brill. Leiden, Netherlands. 2018. published

Book chapter

"Portugal". In Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, editado por Oliver Scharbrodt, 536-550. Reino Unido: Brill Publishers, 2018.

Mapril, José; Soares, Pedro; Almodovar, Laura, Yearbook of Muslims in Europe. Scharbrodt, Oliver. Brill. Leiden, Netherlands. 2018. published

Book chapter

"Portugal". In Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, editado por Oliver Scharbrodt, 530-544. Leiden, Países Baixos: Brill Publishers, 2017.

Mapril, José; Soares, Pedro; Almodovar, Laura, Yearbook of Muslims in Europe. Scharbrodt, Oliver. Brill. Leiden, Netherlands. 2017. published

Book chapter

"Portugal". In Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, editado por Oliver Scharbrodt, 530-544. Leiden, Países Baixos: Brill Publishers, 2017.

Mapril, José; Soares, Pedro; Almodovar, Laura, Yearbook of Muslims in Europe. Scharbrodt, Oliver. Brill. Leiden, Netherlands. 2017. published

Thesis / Dissertation

Um Estudo Etnográfico sobre o Acolhimento e Reintegração Social de Crianças Acusadas de Feitiçaria em Angola

Soares, Pedro, 01-12-2015.

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public.data_updated_at 26-01-2025, public.from_platform public.cv_cienciapublic.cv_vitae.

Curatorial / Museum exhibition

Publicações islâmicas em Portugal (1968-2024)

2024