Jairzinho Lopes Pereira

Email: jairzinho.lpereira@gmail.com e jair.lopespereira@kuleuven.be

Jairzinho Lopes Pereira holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Coimbra, a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), and a PhD in Systematic Theology from the Faculty of Theology of the University of Helsinki (Finland). He is a researcher in the Department of Church History and Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is also an “Associated Foreign Researcher” at the Centre for the Study of Religious History of the Portuguese Catholic University.

Main interests and research topics: Patristic Theology; Sixteenth century Reformation; the relationship between the Catholic Church and Slavery in Africa, especially Angola, the Belgian Congo and Cape Verde; Political Theology; History of the Church in Cape Verde.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0643-6377

Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//E212-6475-3EE4

Research field(s): Empires, colonialism and post-colonialism; Societies, Powers, Inequalities.