Leonardo Marcondes Alves

Leonardo Marcondes Alves

My name is Leonardo Marcondes Alves, PhD, and I am an OMSC Resident Scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary (Princeton, New Jersey, USA). I am a multidisciplinary researcher and and hold a permanent academic editorial appointment at the Federal University of Uberlândia Press (EDUFU), Brazil.

My primary research interest centers on how ideas, beliefs, institutions, and people transform both understanding and reality upon crossing boundaries. By examining everyday life as a context alongside texts—especially sacred ones like the Bible—I draw warranted insights across a range of topics.

To bring cohesion to such a wide array of data, I combine religious studies, anthropology, migration, law, and biblical studies to explore how migrant experiences reciprocally affect textual hermeneutics. I have found that reading while in mobility reshapes gender, politics, and belonging as well as the texts.

I am capable of navigating these multidisciplinary intersections because my formal education spans 25 years across four countries and eight institutions.

I hold a PhD in Theology and Religious Studies from VID Specialized University (Stavanger, Norway, 2025), where I served as a salaried doctoral research fellow (2019–2022), including a research stay at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and courses at RVS doctoral school hosted by MF Oslo. My dissertation is titled The Word on the Move: Migration and Bible Hermeneutics among Latin Pentecostals in the Nordics.

I earned my MA in Cultural Anthropology from Uppsala Universitet (Sweden, 2018) with a thesis titled The moral order of Pentecostal peasants in South Brazil.

For my Bachelor of Laws from the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (Brazil, 2020), my research focused on Direito editorial: a editoração pública brasileira como um microssistema jurídico, one of the first systematic studies of Brazilian public publishing law. Another project explored the potential of large-scale administrative data (megadados) in federal public policy, completed as a Technological Diploma in Public Management from UNISUL (Brazil, 2015).

Earlier in my trajectory, I traveled to the United States to pursue a liberal arts education then unavailable in Brazil, graduating with a BA in Liberal Studies from Excelsior College (USA, 2008) and an AA in Liberal Arts from Bristol Community College. As a self-motivated learner, I have achieved a significant portion of my undergraduate credits by examination.

My editorial work is primarily carried out at EDUFU, where I have filled numerous roles ranging from managerial positions to text editing. I have also undertaken translation and editorial projects for other major publishers, including SENAC and Saraiva. I serve as the editor of the Protestantism section for Springer’s Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions and have contributed as an author to Brill’s Encyclopedia of Global Pentecostalism and to The Pentecostal World (Routledge, 2023). My peer-reviewed articles have appeared in journals such as Mission Studies (Brill), Religions (MDPI), and PentecoStudies (GloPent). I have presented my findings at conferences hosted by the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), the European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS), the European Research Network on Global Pentecostalism (GloPent), the Associação Brasileira de Antropologia (ABA), and the World Christianity Conferences.

My archival and ethnographic fieldwork leads me to Latin America, the United States, the Nordic countries, and Italy, and my research has been featured in public media across Brazil, the Nordics, and Japan.

As an avid reader and writer, I have published over a million words of sustained public and scholarly commentary, featured primarily in Ensaios e Notas and Círculo de Cultura Bíblica. My peer-reviewed works and other writings are mostly available to the public. My research on Latin American and Italian transnational pentecostalisms have found an audience among many resarchers and church members. Among my publications to cater to this audience, I have a book, Pontos de doutrina e da fé: uma exposição bíblica (2024).

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