School of Social and Political Science

Dr Alana Sá Leitão

MSCA Fellow

Dr. Alana Sá Leitão
alana.saleitao@ed.ac.uk
https://www.alanasaleitao.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alana-sá-leitão-3a234126b/
Chrystal Macmillan Building
15a George Square
Edinburgh
UK

Research interests

Culture Nationalism and political action Religion and public action Religion and social movements

Background

Alana Sá Leitão holds a PhD in Anthropology and works at the intersection of religion, politics, and the public sphere. She currently holds a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) postdoctoral fellowship, conducting research on Christian nationalism that examines how political changes have affected church community life in Brazil. She has previously been a visiting researcher at Philipps-Universität Marburg and a Faculty of Arts and Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto.

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