Before coming to ISCTE as a senior researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) in September 2018, Eugenia Roussou was a post-doctoral researcher at CRIA, with a project funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (ref. :SFRH/BPD/72003/2010). She  has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Greece and Portugal on religion, alternative spirituality, performances of ritual healing, material religiosity, and gender. Her current research focuses on transnational religiosity, new forms of spirituality, religious pluralism, alternative healing, spiritual creativity, and the relationship between contemporary religiosity and socio-economic crisis in southern Europe. Her theoretical and ethnographic interests are directed towards the multiple ways of expressing and practicing religion and spirituality, sensory models of perception, epistemologies of knowledge, material manifestations of belief, performances of (spi)ritual healing, multiculturalism and globalization, and the creativity with which social identities are constructed in the contemporary world.