José Pereira Coutinho

José Pereira Coutinho has a licentiate’s degree in agronomic engineering (ISA-UTL), a master’s degree in business management (ISCTE), and a PhD in sociology (ISCTE-IUL). Between 2008 and 2012, he was a doctoral fellow at the Foundation for Science and Technology, the Portuguese public agency that supports science, technology, and innovation in all scientific domains. In 2012, he defended his thesis «Modernity, religiosity and university» (in Portuguese). Several articles of his have been published in national and international journals, such as Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Journal of Religion in Europe, Archives de sciences sociales des religions, Religions, Religião e Sociedade, Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais. His book Religion in Portugal: Sociological Analysis (in Portuguese) was published, in 2020, by Imprensa de Ciências Sociais.