Description
Cristina Rocha (PhD) is an anthropologist. She is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Director of the Religion and Society Research Cluster at Western Sydney University, Australia. She has taught at the Australian National University, Macquarie University and Western Sydney University. Cristina held Visiting Researcher positions at Kings College and Queen Mary College (University of London), the CUNY Graduate Centre, and the Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Her research areas are religion, globalisation and migration with a special interest in the cultural traffic between Brazil, Australia and Japan, where she conducts fieldwork. She has published on Buddhism in the West, healing, spirituality and the New Age, and more recently on Pentecostalism and millennial Brazilians in Australia. She co-edits the Journal of Global Buddhism and the Religion in the Americas book series, Brill. Her publications include: John of God: The Globalisation of Brazilian Faith Healing (Oxford University Press, 2017), The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions (with M. Vásquez, Brill, 2013), Buddhism in Australia (with M. Barker, Routledge, 2010), Zen in Brazil: The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity (Hawaii University Press, 2006).| Period | 1 Sept 2017 → 20 Oct 2017 |
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| Visiting from | Western Sydney University (Australia) |
| Visitor degree | PhD |