Dr. Alana Sá Leitão’s research investigates the connection between Evangelical/Pentecostal Christianity and far right governmentality. More broadly, her research areas of interest include politics, secularism, gender, materiality and media, through ethnographic methods.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
(Under Review). Sá Leitão, Alana. Jewish Materiality and Pentecostal Political Influence in Brazil. Journal of Material Religion.
(In Press). Sá Leitão, Alana. Pentecostals. International Encyclopedia of Anthropology.
(In Press). Sá Leitão, Alana. Global Christianity? Challenges in the Comparative Anthropological Study on Contemporary Christianity. Journal of Anthropological Research
(In Press). Sá Leitão, Alana. Introduction to Special Issue. Journal of Anthropological Research.
Sá Leitão, Alana. (2025). What Kind of Secularism Does one Find In Brazil? The Christian Nation Project. https://thechristiannationproject.net/sa-leitao/
Sá Leitão, Alana. (2023). Democracy Through the Spirit: the Universal Church and its Interconnections with Brazilian Democracy. Horizontes Antropológicos, n. 65. https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9983e650402
Sá Leitão, Alana (et. al). (2023). Antropologia do Cristianismo Lá e Cá: crítica de uma trajetória. In: Menezes, Renata. Teixeira, Faustino. Antropologia da Religião Autores e Temas. Editora Vozes.
Souza, Alana Sá Leitão. (2021). The Holy-Land in Brazil: Jewish Elements and the Relation Between Pentecostalism and Politics. Entangled Worlds Project Website. https://newartsofpersuasion.wordpress.com/the-temple-of-solomon/
Souza, Alana Sá Leitão. (2018). Tia, o que é religião?”: Religião, Corpo e Negociação Entre Crianças na Cidade mais Evangélica do País. Debates do NER, v. 1, n 33. https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-8136.88042
Souza, Alana Sá Leitão. (2017). Between Conflict and Negotiation: an ethnography at the most evangelical city in Brazil. International Journal of Latin American Religions, v. 1, p. 254- 269. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41603-017-0027-0
Souza, Alana Sá Leitão. (2017). O Godlywood e a Mulher Virtuosa na IURD. Revista de Estudos e Investigações Antropológicas, v. 4, p. 24-38.
Souza, Alana; Campos, Roberta Bivar Carneiro. (2017). O Godlywood de Cristiane Cardoso: uma Etnografia do Transreligioso. Revista de Antropologia da USP, V.60, p.487-51. https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2017.137318
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
2024. The Extreme Right and Pentecostalism in Brazil: Thinking with Religion in a Polycrisis World. European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference.
2024. In Between The Everyday and The Extraordinary of a New Fieldwork: how Christians in Nepal defy multiple classifications. AAR Conference.
2024. Jesus Christ Queen of Heaven? How a Scottish play enhanced the dispute over Christianity in Brazilian public sphere. LASA Conference.
2023. Global Christianity? Challenges in the Comparative Anthropological Study of Contemporary Christianity. American Anthropological Association Conference.
2023. Jesus Christ. Queen of Heaven? How a Scottish play enhanced the dispute over Christianity in Brazilian public sphere. SAR Conference.
2022. The Constitution of the Self and the World in Brazilian. European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference.
2021. Moving between ethics and politics through “revolt” and “intelligent faith”. SAR Conference.
2020. The world pilgrimage to the Temple of Solomon in Brazil. European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference.
2019. Anthropological Knowledge about Pentecostalism: A Case Study. SAR Conference.