Donizete Rodrigues (born in 1959), Bachelor in Social Sciences (Geography), Master''s degree in Social Anthropology at University of São Paulo, Brazil - where he was assistant professor (1986-1992) - and PhD in Social Anthropology (University, of Coimbra, Portugal), is Associate Professor (with habilitation) in Sociology at University of Beira Interior ¿ where he was Dean of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences (1997-2000)Researcher at the following principal institutions: Centre for Research in Anthropology, New University of Lisbon (2007-2021); Associate Member of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture/Study of Latin American Pentecostalism, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (2011-2014); and Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (2012-2015), Lisbon, PortugalThroughout the long teaching career, has been collaborating with many academic institutions: Visiting professor (1995-2011) in the PhD program in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Salamanca (Spain); Visiting scholar (2000-2001) and Erasmus fellow (2002-2005) in the Department of Sociology at Bristol University (England); Visiting professor (2009-2010) in the Department of Religion at Columbia University (NYC, USA); and also taught in the Master and PhD seminars in Sociology and Anthropology in many countries: Spain, Sweden, France, England, Romania, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Croatia, Kosovo, Ukraine, Moldova, Albania, India, Brazil, USA, Japan, Canada, and Israel. Vice-President of the Lusophone Studies Association (York University, Ontario, Canada, 2019-2022). He has been doing ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, USA, Europe, and Asia, in particular, on religion, immigration and identity. Presently, coordinates the project ¿Anthropological and sociological studies of religious expressions and identities in the Amazon region of Brazil¿. Published hundreds of scientific articles, sixteen books, he¿s the co-editor of five special issue journals, and 45 book chapters. The most important works in English are: The Religious Phenomenon: an inter-disciplinary approach (Spain, 2000); The God of the New Millennium: An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion ¿ preface by Bryan Wilson (Portugal, 2002); four entries in the Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements (Routledge, 2006); chapters in Ecologies of Faith in New York City (Indiana University Press, 2012) and in The Changing Soul of Europe: Religions and Migrations in Northern and Southern Europe (Ashgate, 2014); e-book Jesus in Sacred Gotham: Brazilian Immigrants and Pentecostalism in New York City (USA, Amazon Publishing, 2014); Portuguese Studies Review (Canada, special issue, co-editor, 2019).