EMILY PIERINI

ITALIANO (English below)

Emily Pierini è Professoressa Associata in Antropologia presso Sapienza Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Storia Antropologia Religioni Arte Spettacolo (SARAS). PhD in Antropologia Sociale presso l'Università di Bristol con una ricerca sulle esperienze dei medium nell'Ordine Spiritualista Cristiano Vale do Amanhecer (Valle dell'Alba) in Brasile, per cui ha ricevuto il Sutasoma Award del Royal Anthropological Institute.
Ha insegnato presso l’Università di Bristol e The American University of Rome. È stata Honorary Research Fellow presso la University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Visiting Professor presso l'Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Brasile e il CRIA-ISCTE-IUL di Lisbona, e Research Affiliate presso la School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford.
Vincitrice della Marie Skłodowska–Curie Global Fellowship 2019 con il progetto "THETRANCE - Transnational Healing: Therapeutic Trajectories in Spiritual Trance" (GA n. 895395) che ha coinvolto come istituzioni partner Sapienza Università di Roma, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina e University of Oxford. La ricerca ha indagato la trance spirituale terapeutica in una prospettiva transnazionale, analizzando come le persone apprendono e narrano la trance spirituale, con quali tipi di consistenze e differenze tra le culture e il suo uso terapeutico. https://www.healnetwork.eu/projects1/thetrance.
Vincitrice della Marie Skłodowska-Curie Staff Exchange (2025) con il progetto “RHEAL - Religion and Healing: Collaborative and Participatory Methodologies”, che esplora metodologie interdisciplinari innovative per promuovere la collaborazione tra ricercatori, operatori sanitari, guaritori religiosi e tradizionali, persone con esperienze vissute di salute mentale e i loro caregiver.

La sua ricerca si colloca all'intersezione tra antropologia della religione, antropologia medica e visuale. Ha condotto ricerche etnografiche nei templi di Vale do Amanhecer (Brasile, Europa e Stati Uniti), religioni afro-brasiliane (Brasile) e spiritualità della Dea (Regno Unito e Italia), e il culto del Dr. Sousa Martins (Portogallo). Le tematiche di ricerca includono: medianità e possessione, conoscenza incorporata, guarigione, esperienza religiosa e apprendimento, corpo e sé, emozioni, etnografia sensoriale, materialità e immagini, e religioni transnazionali. I suoi progetti più recenti affrontano la relazione tra spiritualità e biomedicina nelle aree della salute mentale e delle cure di fine vita.

PROGETTI DI RICERCA RECENTI

• 2025-oggi PI del Progetto Marie Skłodowska-Curie Staff Exchange "RHEAL - Religion and Healing: Collaborative and Participatory Methodologies", Finanziato dall'Unione Europea. RHEAL esplora metodologie interdisciplinari innovative per promuovere la collaborazione tra ricercatori, operatori sanitari, guaritori religiosi e tradizionali, persone con esperienze vissute di salute mentale e i loro caregiver. Attraverso un approccio interdisciplinare che unisce antropologia, arti creative, sociologia, psicologia e psichiatria, il progetto affronta questioni cruciali nel campo della salute mentale, con l'obiettivo di facilitare il dialogo tra i diversi approcci terapeutici e migliorare la qualità della cura e lo scambio tra saperi. Focalizzandosi in particolare su salute mentale, trance e fenomeni di possessione, RHEAL intende colmare il divario epistemologico tra le prospettive biomediche e quelle religiose, spirituali e tradizionali, identificando le migliori pratiche per la cooperazione nella guarigione. Istituzioni partecipanti: Sapienza Università di Roma (Italia), Middlesex University (Regno Unito), Université Côte D'Azur (Francia), University of Amsterdam (Olanda), Aarhus University (Danimarca), Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia), Kyoto University (Giappone), Ajou University (Corea del Sud) University of Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania), Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Estadual de Rio de Janeiro, Hospital das Clínicas Universidade de São Paulo, Istituto Terra Sustentável (Brasile).
• 2025-oggi. Membro del progetto internazionale BRIDGE: Bioethical Committee for Relationships of Dignity and Guidance in End-of-Life Care (Policlinico L. Di Liegro), che favorisce il dialogo tra operatori sanitari, pazienti, accademici, giuristi, rappresentanti religiosi e diplomazia istituzionale attorno alla relazione tra operatori sanitari, pazienti e loro familiari nel fine vita.
• 2025-oggi. Membro del Progetto di Ricerca Grande d'Ateneo Myths, Artifacts, Gestures, Incantations, and Cyberpractices (MAGIC): Tracing the Journey of Magical Practices from Antiquity to the Digital Age. Sapienza Università di Roma.
• 2023 - 2026. Membro del Progetto internazionale di ricerca ReSpell: Religion, Spirituality and Wellbeing. A Comparative Approach of Transreligiosity and Crisis in Southern Europe (Ref. 2022.01229.PTDC). Finanziato dalla Fondazione per la Scienza e la Tecnologia del Portogallo (FCT/CRIA). Università partner: CRIA-ISCTE-IUL, Università di Siviglia, Panteion University e Sapienza Università di Roma. Ruolo nel progetto: responsabile della ricerca etnografica, comprensiva di etnografia visiva, sul culto devozionale al Dottor Sousa Martins in Portogallo tra il distretto medico di Lisbona, Alhandra e Porto. Sito web: https://respell.cria.org.pt/index.php/.
• 2020 - 2023. Vincitrice della Marie Skłodowska–Curie Global Fellowship 2019 THETRANCE - Transnational Healing: Therapeutic Trajectories in Spiritual Trance. Università partner: Sapienza Università di Roma, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasile, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, Regno Unito. Questo progetto ha ricevuto un finanziamento dal programma di ricerca e innovazione Horizon 2020 dell’Unione Europea formalizzato dal grant agreement Marie Skłodowska-Curie n. 895395. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/895395
https://www.healnetwork.eu/projects1/thetrance

DIREZIONE DI RETI DI RICERCA INTERNAZIONALI
- Coordinatrice del HEAL Network for the Ethnography of Healing: https://www.healnetwork.eu
- Co-coordinatrice del Network of Contemporary Spiritual Practices della European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA-CSP). https://csp.hypotheses.org

DIREZIONE E PARTECIPAZIONE A COMITATI EDITORIALI
- Direzione, con Elisabeth Hsu, della collana “Epistemologies of Healing” di Berghahn Books (University of Oxford).
- Membro del comitato scientifico-editoriale del Journal for the Study of Religious Experience.
- Peer-reviewer per riviste scientifiche: Journal for the Study of Religious Experience; African Diaspora; Religião e Sociedade; Curare. Journal for Medical Anthropology; Heritage & Society; International Journal of Latin American Religions; Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture; e Studia Religiologica; Etnografie del Contemporaneo; Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo.
- Peer-reviewer per case editrici: Berghahn Books; Routledge; Nuova Cultura.

ALTRE ATTIVITA’ E AFFILIAZIONI PROFESSIONALI
- Fellow del Royal Anthropological Institute.
- Board Member of the Ethical Committee/Internal Review Board of The American University of Rome.
- External Expert Reviewer, European Research Council grants.
- Membro dell’European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).

- Membro dell’EASA Network of Psychological Anthropology (EASA/ENPA).
- Socio della Società Italiana di Antropologia Culturale (SIAC).
- Membro dell’International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES).
- Membro dell’IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Religion.
- Membro dell’International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism (ISARS).
- Membro del Contemporary Religions and Faiths in Transition Research Centre (CRAFT), Università di Torino.
- Membro dell’Associação de Brasilianistas na Europa (ABRE).
- Consulente antropologa per documentari e reportage sulle religioni brasiliane per Reuters International, BBC, Discovery Channel, Il Sole 24 Ore e New York Times.

PUBBLICAZIONI:
Ha pubblicato diversi capitoli e articoli di riviste, tra cui Ethnos, Anthropology Today e Social Compass: https://uniroma1.academia.edu/EmilyPierini

Monografia
- 2020 Jaguars of the Dawn: Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer, New York; Oxford: Berghahn.

Curatele
- 2023 Pierini, E., A. Groisman and D. Espírito Santo (a cura di). Other Worlds, Other Bodies: Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing, New York; Oxford: Berghahn.
- 2024 Pierini, E., (a cura di), Vestire l’Invisibile: Antropologia degli Abiti nelle Religioni Medianiche Brasiliane, Roma: Nuova Cultura.

Special Issue
- 2016 Pierini, E., A. Groisman (a cura di), Fieldwork in Religion: Bodily Experience and Ethnographic Knowledge, Journal for the Study of Religious Experience 2.

Contributi in riviste e volumi
- 2025 Pierini, E. ‘Terapie spirituali nelle religioni medianiche brasiliane’. In A. Brivio, J. Gonzalez Diez, A. Gusman, Antropologia delle religioni. Temi, etnografie, pratiche, Milano, Hoepli, pp. 167-172.
- 2025 (In corso di pubblicazione) ‘Brasilia profetica: ecumenismo e storicità alternative nella capitale modernista’. In Elena Cerqua, Randa Khalil, Walter Montanari, Alessandro Saggioro (a cura di), Lezioni sulla pace, Nuova Cultura, Roma.
- (In corso di pubblicazione) Pierini, E. ‘The Mediumistic Body: Transnational Ways of Knowing the Spirits in the Vale do Amanhecer’. In Muscari, Marcello, Voss, Ehler, Zillinger, Martin (a cura di), Transcending Worlds. Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship, Stuttgart: Springer Metzler.
- 2024 Pierini, The Worship of Dr Sousa Martins: Spiritual Healing in Portugal, Anthropology Today 40(4): 3-7.
- 2024 Pierini, E. ‘Introduzione: Vestire l’Invisibile’. In E. Pierini (a cura di), Vestire l’Invisibile: Antropologia degli Abiti nelle Religioni Medianiche Brasiliane, Roma: Nuova Cultura, pp. 1-14.
- 2024 Pierini, E. ‘Materialità, storicità e circolazione transnazionale degli abiti sacri nel Vale do Amanhecer’. In E. Pierini (a cura di), Vestire l’Invisibile: Antropologia degli Abiti nelle Religioni Medianiche Brasiliane, Roma: Nuova Cultura, pp. 15-62.
- 2023 Pierini, E. Healing Correspondences: Experience as a Pathway between Spirituality and Healthcare, Etnografie del Contemporaneo 6: 199-212.
- 2023 Pierini, E. Trance-Formative Therapeutic Experiences: Moving and Being Moved by Spiritual Healing Across the Atlantic, AM Antropologia Medica 24(56): 119-139.
- 2023 Pierini, E. Corpi Medianici: Prospettive Organiche, Tecnologiche e Immaginali sulla Costruzione del Corpo tra Medium e Spiriti, Uomo 13(2): 103-128.
- 2023 Pierini, E. The Glastonbury Experience: Healing and Transnationalism in the Goddess Movement, Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 89(2): 733-752.
- 2023 Pierini, E., A. Groisman and D. Espírito Santo. ‘Introduction. Embodied Epistemologies of Healing’. In E. Pierini, A. Groisman and D. Espírito Santo (a cura di). Other Worlds, Other Bodies: Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing, New York; Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 1—30.
- 2023 Pierini, E. ‘Ways of Knowing and Healing: Mediumistic and Ethnographic Epiphanies in the Vale do Amanhecer’. In E. Pierini, A. Groisman and D. Espírito Santo, (a cura di), Other Worlds, Other Bodies: Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing, New York; Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 175—192.
- 2021 Pierini, E. Spirituality and Wellbeing: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Religion and Health, Journal of Contemporary Religion 36(2): 385-387 (recensione in rivista).
- 2021 Pierini, E. Transnational Mediumship and the Development of a Transhistorical Self in the Vale do Amanhecer, Social Compass 68(2): 218—230.
- 2020, Pierini, E. ‘Categorie Evanescenti: Le Pratiche Medianiche nel Meshwork Religioso Brasiliano’. In A. Saggioro, ed. Definire il Pluralismo Religioso, Brescia: Morcelliana, pp. 143—152.
- 2018 Pierini, E. Healing and Therapeutic Trajectories among the Spirit Mediums of the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer, International Journal of Latin American Religions 2(2): 272-289.
- 2017 Pierini, E. ‘Incontri Incorporati: Pratiche Medianiche e Etnografia del Sentire’. In S. Botta and M. Ferrara (a cura di), Corpi Sciamanici: La Nozione di Persona nello Studio dello Sciamanesimo, Roma: Nuova Cultura, pp. 137-156.
- 2016 Pierini, E., A. Groisman, Introduction. Fieldwork in Religion: Bodily Experience and Ethnographic Knowledge, Journal for the Study of Religious Experience 2: 1-6.
- 2016 Pierini, E. Embodied Encounters: Ethnographic Knowledge, Emotion and Senses in the Vale do Amanhecer’s Spirit Mediumship. Journal for the Study of Religious Experience 2: 25-49.
- 2016 Pierini, E. ‘Becoming a Jaguar: Spiritual Routes in the Vale do Amanhecer’. In Bettina Schmidt and Steven Engler (a cura di), Handbook of Contemporary Religions in Brazil. Leiden: Brill, pp. 225-232.
- 2016 Pierini, E. ‘Fieldwork and Embodied Knowledge: Researching the Experiences of Spirit Mediums in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer’. In Bettina Schmidt. The Study of Religious Experience: Approaches and Methodologies, London: Equinox, pp. 50-70.
- 2016 Pierini, E. Becoming a Spirit Medium: Initiatory Learning and the Self in the Vale do Amanhecer. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 81(2): 290-314.
- 2010 Pierini, E. Aspectos Sócio-culturais dos Cultos de Matrizes Afros e Afro-brasileiras no Distrito Federal. In E. Pierini and M. Reis. Identificação dos Lugares de Matrizes Africanas e Afro-Brasileira no Distrito Federal e Entorno, Inventário Nacional de Referências Culturais/INRC Lugares de Culto de Matrizes Africanas e Afro-Brasileiras no Distrito Federal e Entorno Fase II. Brasília: Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, pp. 56-94.
- 2009 Pierini, E. Identità Ibride: l'Esperienza Religiosa nella Vale do Amanhecer. Quaderni di Thule IX, pp. 215-220.
- 2008 Pierini, E. L’Ibridismo Religioso della Vale do Amanhecer. Un’Analisi delle Interazioni tra il Globale e il Locale in Brasile. Quaderni di Thule VIII, pp. 513-518.

ENGLISH
Emily Pierini is Associate Professor in Anthropology at Sapienza University of Rome, Department of History Anthropology Religions Performing Arts (SARAS). PhD in Social Anthropology (University of Bristol) with research on the experiences of mediums in the Spiritualist Christian Order Vale do Amanhecer (Valley of Dawn) in Brazil, for which she received the Royal Anthropological Institute Sutasoma Award.
She has taught at the University of Bristol and The American University of Rome. She has been an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Visiting Professor at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Brazil and the CRIA-ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute, and Research Affiliate at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford.
She was awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship in 2019 with the project “THETRANCE - Transnational Healing: Therapeutic Trajectories in Spiritual Trance” (GA no. 895395), involving Sapienza University of Rome, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina and University of Oxford as partner institutions. The research investigated spiritual trance from a transnational perspective, analyzing how people learn and narrate spiritual trance, with what kinds of consistencies and differences across cultures, and its therapeutic aspects. https://www.healnetwork.eu/projects1/thetrance.
She was also awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Staff Exchange Project (2025) with the project ‘RHEAL - Religion and Healing: Collaborative and Participatory Methodologies’, that brings together 13 institutions across the world to explore innovative interdisciplinary methodologies to promote collaboration between researchers, health professionals, religious and traditional healers, people with lived experience of mental health and their carers.

Her research stands at the intersection between anthropology of religion, medical and visual anthropology. She has conducted ethnographic research in Vale do Amanhecer temples (Brazil, Europe and the US), Afro-Brazilian religions (Brazil), Goddess spirituality (UK and Italy), and the worship of Dr Sousa Martins (Portugal). Research topics include: mediumship and possession, embodied knowledge, healing, religious experience and learning, body and self, emotions, sensory ethnography, materiality and images, and transnational religions. Her latest projects address the relationship between spirituality and biomedicine in the areas of mental health and end-of-life-care.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
- 2025-present PI of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Staff Exchange Project ‘RHEAL - Religion and Healing: Collaborative and Participatory Methodologies’, Funded by the European Union. RHEAL explores innovative interdisciplinary methodologies to promote collaboration between researchers, health professionals, religious and traditional healers, people with lived experience of mental health and their carers. Through an interdisciplinary approach combining anthropology, creative arts, sociology, psychology and psychiatry, the project addresses crucial issues in the field of mental health, with the aim of facilitating dialogue between different therapeutic approaches and improving the quality of care and the exchange between knowledge. Focusing in particular on mental health, trance and possession phenomena, RHEAL aims to bridge the epistemological gap between biomedical and religious, spiritual and traditional perspectives, identifying best practices for healing cooperation. Participating institutions: Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), Middlesex University (United Kingdom), Université Côte D'Azur (France), University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), Aarhus University (Denmark), Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia), Kyoto University (Japan), Ajou University (South Korea) University of Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania), Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Estadual de Rio de Janeiro, Hospital das Clínicas Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto Terrier Sustentável (Brazil).
- 2025-present. Member of the international project BRIDGE: Bioethical Committee for Relationships of Dignity and Guidance in End-of-Life Care (Policlinico L. Di Liegro), which fosters dialogue between healthcare professionals, patients, academics, jurists, religious representatives and institutional diplomacy around the relationship between healthcare professionals, patients and their relatives at the end of life.
- 2025-present. Member of Sapienza University of Rome’s Research Project Myths, Artifacts, Gestures, Incantations, and Cyberpractices (MAGIC): Tracing the Journey of Magical Practices from Antiquity to the Digital Age.
- 2023 -present. Member of the International Research Project ReSpell: Religion, Spirituality and Wellbeing. A Comparative Approach of Transreligiosity and Crisis in Southern Europe (Ref. 2022.01229.PTDC). Funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal (FCT/CRIA). Partner universities: CRIA-ISCTE-IUL, University of Seville, Panteion University and Sapienza University of Rome. Role in the project: Responsible for ethnographic research, including visual ethnography, on the devotional cult to Dr Sousa Martins in Portugal between the medical district of Lisbon, Alhandra and Porto. Website: https://respell.cria.org.pt/index.php/.

COORDINATION OF INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORKS
- Coordinator of the HEAL Network for the Ethnography of Healing: https://www.healnetwork.eu
- Co-convenor of the EASA Network of Contemporary Spiritual Practices (EASA/CSP). https://csp.hypotheses.org

EDITORIAL COMMITTEES
- General editor, with Elisabeth Hsu, the Berghahn Books series “Epistemologies of Healing”.
- Member of the scientific-editorial board of the Journal for the Study of Religious Experience.
- Peer-reviewer for journals: Journal for the Study of Religious Experience; African Diaspora; Religião e Sociedade; Curare. Journal for Medical Anthropology; Heritage & Society; International Journal of Latin American Religions; Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture; e Studia Religiologica; Etnografie del Contemporaneo; Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo.
- Peer-reviewer for books: Berghahn Books; Routledge; Nuova Cultura.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES
- Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
- Member of the ethics/IRB of the American University of Rome.
- Expert external reviewer of European Research Council grants.
- Member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).

- Member of the EASA Network of Psychological Anthropology (EASA/ENPA).
- Member of the Italian Society of Cultural Anthropology (SIAC).
- Member of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES).
- Member of the IUAES Commission for the Anthropology of Religion.
- Member of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology (APA)
- Member of the International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism (ISARS).
- Member of the Contemporary Religions and Faiths in Transition Research Centre (CRAFT), University of Turin.
- Member of the Associação de Brasilianistas na Europa (ABRE).
- Consultant anthropologist for documentaries and reports on Brazilian religions for Reuters International, BBC, Discovery Channel, Il Sole 24 Ore and New York Times.

PUBLICATIONS:
She has published several chapters and journal articles, including in Ethnos, Anthropology Today, and Social Compass, among others: https://uniroma1.academia.edu/EmilyPierini
Book
- 2020 Jaguars of the Dawn: Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer, New York; Oxford: Berghahn.

Edited Volumes
- 2023 Pierini, E., A. Groisman and D. Espírito Santo (eds). Other Worlds, Other Bodies: Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing, New York; Oxford: Berghahn.
- 2024 Pierini, E., (ed.), Vestire l’Invisibile: Antropologia degli Abiti nelle Religioni Medianiche Brasiliane, Roma: Nuova Cultura.

Special Issue
- 2016 Pierini, E., A. Groisman (eds.), Fieldwork in Religion: Bodily Experience and Ethnographic Knowledge, Journal for the Study of Religious Experience 2.

Articles and Book Chapters
- 2025 Pierini, E. ‘Terapie spirituali nelle religioni medianiche brasiliane’. In A. Brivio, J. Gonzalez Diez, A. Gusman (eds), Antropologia delle religioni. Temi, etnografie, pratiche, Milano, Hoepli, pp. 167-172.
- 2025 (In press) Pierini, E. ‘Brasilia profetica: ecumenismo e storicità alternative nella capitale modernista’. In Elena Cerqua, Randa Khalil, Walter Montanari, Alessandro Saggioro (eds), Lezioni sulla pace, Nuova Cultura, Roma.
- 2024 Pierini, E. The Worship of Dr Sousa Martins: Spiritual Healing in Portugal, Anthropology Today 40(4): 3-7.
- 2024 Pierini, E. ‘The Mediumistic Body: Transnational Ways of Knowing the Spirits in the Vale do Amanhecer’. In Muscari, Marcello, Voss, Ehler, Zillinger, Martin (eds), Transcending Worlds. Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship, Stuttgart: Metzler (accepted).
- 2024 Pierini, E. ‘Introduzione: Vestire l’Invisibile’. In E. Pierini (ed), Vestire l’Invisibile: Antropologia degli Abiti nelle Religioni Medianiche Brasiliane, Roma: Nuova Cultura, pp. 1-14.
- 2024 Pierini, E. ‘Materialità, storicità e circolazione transnazionale degli abiti sacri nel Vale do Amanhecer’. In E. Pierini (ed.), Vestire l’Invisibile: Antropologia degli Abiti nelle Religioni Medianiche Brasiliane, Roma: Nuova Cultura, pp. 15-62.
- 2023 Pierini, E. Healing Correspondences: Experience as a Pathway between Spirituality and Healthcare, Etnografie del Contemporaneo 6: 199-212.
- 2023 Pierini, E. Trance-Formative Therapeutic Experiences: Moving and Being Moved by Spiritual Healing Across the Atlantic, AM Antropologia Medica 24(56): 119-139.
- 2023 Pierini, E. Corpi Medianici: Prospettive Organiche, Tecnologiche e Immaginali sulla Costruzione del Corpo tra Medium e Spiriti, Uomo 13(2): 103-128.
- 2023 Pierini, E. The Glastonbury Experience: Healing and Transnationalism in the Goddess Movement, Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 89(2): 733-752.
- 2023 Pierini, E., A. Groisman and D. Espírito Santo. ‘Introduction. Embodied Epistemologies of Healing’. In E. Pierini, A. Groisman and D. Espírito Santo (eds). Other Worlds, Other Bodies: Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing, New York; Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 1—30.
- 2023 Pierini, E. ‘Ways of Knowing and Healing: Mediumistic and Ethnographic Epiphanies in the Vale do Amanhecer’. In E. Pierini, A. Groisman and D. Espírito Santo, (eds), Other Worlds, Other Bodies: Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing, New York; Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 175—192.
- 2021 Pierini, E. Spirituality and Wellbeing: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Religion and Health, Journal of Contemporary Religion 36(2): 385-387 (book review).
- 2021 Pierini, E. Transnational Mediumship and the Development of a Transhistorical Self in the Vale do Amanhecer, Social Compass 68(2): 218—230.
- 2020 Pierini, E. ‘Categorie Evanescenti: Le Pratiche Medianiche nel Meshwork Religioso Brasiliano’. In A. Saggioro, ed. Definire il Pluralismo Religioso, Brescia: Morcelliana, pp. 143—152.
- 2018 Pierini, E. Healing and Therapeutic Trajectories among the Spirit Mediums of the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer, International Journal of Latin American Religions 2(2): 272-289.
- 2017 Pierini, E. ‘Incontri Incorporati: Pratiche Medianiche e Etnografia del Sentire’. In S. Botta and M. Ferrara (eds), Corpi Sciamanici: La Nozione di Persona nello Studio dello Sciamanesimo, Roma: Nuova Cultura, pp. 137-156.
- 2016 Pierini, E., A. Groisman, Introduction. Fieldwork in Religion: Bodily Experience and Ethnographic Knowledge, Journal for the Study of Religious Experience 2: 1-6.
- 2016 Pierini, E. Embodied Encounters: Ethnographic Knowledge, Emotion and Senses in the Vale do Amanhecer’s Spirit Mediumship. Journal for the Study of Religious Experience 2: 25-49.
- 2016 Pierini, E. ‘Becoming a Jaguar: Spiritual Routes in the Vale do Amanhecer’. In Bettina Schmidt and Steven Engler (eds), Handbook of Contemporary Religions in Brazil. Leiden: Brill, pp. 225-232.
- 2016 Pierini, E. ‘Fieldwork and Embodied Knowledge: Researching the Experiences of Spirit Mediums in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer’. In Bettina Schmidt. The Study of Religious Experience: Approaches and Methodologies, London: Equinox, pp. 50-70.
- 2016 Pierini, E. Becoming a Spirit Medium: Initiatory Learning and the Self in the Vale do Amanhecer. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 81(2): 290-314.
- 2010 Pierini, E. Aspectos Sócio-culturais dos Cultos de Matrizes Afros e Afro-brasileiras no Distrito Federal. In E. Pierini and M. Reis. Identificação dos Lugares de Matrizes Africanas e Afro-Brasileira no Distrito Federal e Entorno, Inventário Nacional de Referências Culturais/INRC Lugares de Culto de Matrizes Africanas e Afro-Brasileiras no Distrito Federal e Entorno Fase II. Brasília: Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, pp. 56-94.
- 2009 Pierini, E. Identità Ibride: l'Esperienza Religiosa nella Vale do Amanhecer. Quaderni di Thule IX, pp. 215-220.
- 2008 Pierini, E. L’Ibridismo Religioso della Vale do Amanhecer. Un’Analisi delle Interazioni tra il Globale e il Locale in Brasile. Quaderni di Thule VIII, pp. 513-518.