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Principal Investigator (PI) and Executive Coordinator of CITER - Research Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), in Lisbon. He is Professor of Theology and Literature in the Graduate Programme of Theology and Professor of Hermeneutics of Religious Texts in the Master of Religious Studies, both at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. He received the "Religions Young Investigator Award 2022", sponsored by the journal Religions (Q1) and MDPI, based in Basel, Switzerland. Education: Habilitation/Aggregation in Ethics and Theological Language from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC SP). Post-doctorate in Theology at the Pontificia Università Gregoriana di Roma (PUG), with a research on the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola between Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar. PhD in Theology from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC Rio). Visiting Professor: Literary Studies Programme, Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal); Faculté de théologie et sciences religieuses, Université Laval (Canada); Graduate Programme in Humanities, Universidade Católica de Moçambique (UCM); Graduate Programme in History and Literary Theory, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP); Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Paracelsus Medizinische Universität (Austria). Editor-in-chief of Teoliteraria - Journal of Literatures and Theologies (2011-2021). He is currently Associate Editor of the theological journal Ephata.
Education/Academic qualification
Agregação, Mercy and Otherness in the Theological Perspective of Pope Francis, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
2016 → 2017
Award Date: 11 Apr 2017
Postdoctoral Research: "Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola between Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar", Pontificia Università Gregoriana
2015 → 2016
Award Date: 16 Jul 2016
PhD, Teologia e Literatura como Teopatodiceia: Em busca de um pensamento poético teológico, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
2009 → 2012
Award Date: 2 Apr 2013
Master, The meaning of life in the poetic trajectory of Carlos Drummond de Andrade - Theological reflection from the anthropology contained in Drummond's work, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
2007 → 2008
Award Date: 1 Nov 2008
Bachelor, The Ecclesiology of Communion and the XI Pastoral Plan of the Archdiocese of Sorocaba
2001 → 2004
Award Date: 4 Mar 2005
Keywords
- BT Doctrinal Theology
- Systematic Theology
- Theological Anthropology
- Fundamental Theology
- Theology and Literature
- Spirituality
- Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola
- Theology of Culture
- Political Theology
- Theological Hermeneutics
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COLIVING2020: Common home and new ways of living interculturally: Public theology and ecology of culture in pandemic times
Boas, A. V. (PI), Palma, A. (Researcher), Teixeira, A. (Researcher), Martins, A. (Researcher), Pereira, A. (Researcher), Matoso, A. (Researcher), Ferreira, A. M. S. (Researcher), Martins, A. (Researcher), Arêas, C. (Researcher), Martins, J. C. D. O. (Researcher), Morujão, C. (Researcher), Tuna, C. (Researcher), Wehr, C. (Researcher), Ramos, C. (Student), Cuda, E. (Researcher), Pires de Almeida, F. (Student), Domingues, F. (Researcher), Bensussan, G. (Researcher), Routhier, G. (Researcher), Bolinhas, I. (Researcher), Vieira, I. E. (Adjunct Professor), Varanda, M. I. P. (Researcher), Lamelas, I. (Researcher), Souza Candiotto, J. D. F. (Researcher), Sudário, J. (Researcher), Silva, J. (Associate Professor), Duque, J. M. (Full Professor), Félix, J. (Researcher), Carvalho, J. (Researcher), Angélico, J. P. L. (Researcher), Coutinho, J. P. (Researcher), Teixeira, J. R. (Assistant Professor), Lóia, L. (Associate Professor), Rodrigues, L. M. F. (Associate Professor), Provinciatto, L. G. (Student), Almendra, L. M. (Assistant Professor), Ribeiro Ferreira, M. L. (Researcher), Amorim Pilla, M. C. (Researcher), Bingemer, M. C. (Researcher), Brasete, M. F. (Researcher), Henriques, F. (Researcher), Esperandio, M. R. (Researcher), Fontes, P. F. D. O. (Assistant Professor), Gomes, P. V. (Researcher), Hefti , R. (Researcher), Cunha, R. (Student), Vasconcelos, R. (Student), Dimas, S. (Researcher), Branco, S. (Researcher), Caldeira, S. (Researcher), McReynolds, S. (Researcher), Vilas Boas, S. D. S. (Researcher), Bartolomei, T. (Researcher), Messias, T. (Researcher), Folloni, A. (Researcher), José Tammayo Acosta, J. (Researcher), Dickson, C. (Researcher), Lucas Maria, E. (Researcher), Zeferino, J. (Researcher), Figueira, E. (Researcher), Barsalini, G. (Researcher), Julien, J. (Researcher), de Oliveira, J. (Researcher), Candiotto, C. (Researcher), Ambrósio, J. (Researcher), von Sinner, R. (Researcher), Barros, D. (Researcher), Murad, A. (Researcher), Tavares, S. (Researcher), Maringoli, Â. (Researcher), Deane-Drummond, C. (Researcher), Schliesser, C. (Researcher), Maçaneiro, M. (Researcher), Rodrigues da Conceição, D. (Researcher), Capelli, M. (Researcher), Nogueira, P. (Researcher), Lopes, M. (Researcher), Ausloos, H. (Researcher), Rossi, L. A. S. (Researcher), Dietrich, L. J. (Researcher), Mauri, E. (Researcher), Leonel, J. (Researcher), Artuso, V. (Researcher), Gonzaga, W. (Researcher), Beato, S. (Researcher), Malzoni, C. V. (Researcher), Manzatto, A. (Researcher), Büssing, A. (Researcher), Takehito, K. (Researcher), Gareau, T. P. (Researcher) & Pabón, C. (Researcher)
1/09/20 → 30/09/25
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Digital Disciples: Empowering Young Catholics for Tech-Driven Evangelization
Rodrigues, L. M. F. (PI), Boas, A. V. (Researcher) & Freitas, T. (Researcher)
1/01/26 → 31/12/27
Project: Research
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CITER - Research Centre for Theology and Religious Studies: UID/06176/2025. Pluriannual 2025-2029.
Palma, A. (PI), Boas, A. V. (PI), Coutinho, J. P. (PI), Lamelas, I. (PI), Duque, J. M. (PI), Teixeira, A. (PI), Angélico, J. P. L. (PI), Varanda, M. I. P. (PI), Bartolomei, T. (PI), Franca, M. (PI) & Rodrigues, L. M. F. (PI)
1/01/25 → 31/12/29
Project: Research
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CRC1975-1999: The Centro de Reflexão Cristã and political spirituality: readings of democracy in the pages of Reflexão Cristã journal
Boas, A. V. (PI), Vieira, I. E. (Researcher), Almeida, J. M. (CoPI) & Pinto Janeiro, H. (Researcher)
1/07/24 → 30/06/25
Project: Research
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ARCHAEOLOGY2022: Archaeology of the theological knowledge: theological-political discourses issue in post-secular societies
Boas, A. V. (PI), Teixeira, A. (CoPI), Palma, A. (Researcher), Duque, J. M. (Researcher), Dimas, S. (Researcher), Martins, A. (Researcher), Arêas, C. (Researcher) & Franco de Sá, A. (Researcher)
20/09/22 → 19/09/25
Project: Research
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Ecologia digital
Rodrigues, L. M. F., Boas, A. V., Palma, A. & Incerti, F., Jul 2026, Lisboa: UCP Editora. 180 p. (Cuidar da Casa Comum)Research output: Book/Report › Edited book
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Entre redes e raízes: repensar a técnica à luz da ecologia integral
Rodrigues, L. M. F., Boas, A. V., Palma, A. & Incerti, F., Jul 2026, Ecologia digital. Rodrigues, L. M. F., Boas, A. V., Palma, A. & Incerti, F. (eds.). Lisboa: UCP Editora, p. 6-9 4 p. (Cuidar da Casa Comum).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript
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Moniz, Jorge Botelho. Secularização: genealogias, modelos e debates. Coleção Estudos de Religião. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 2023, 184 p.
Villas Boas, A., 29 Jan 2026, In: Ephata. 8, 1, p. 187-193 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book review › peer-review
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Apresentação: a dignidade humana como ecoemergência fundamental
Boas, A. V., Aragão, A., Palma, A., Incerti, F., Valente, I. M. F., Furlin, M. & Garcia, M. D. G., Nov 2025, Direitos e deveres humanos: ecoemergência fundamental. Garcia, M. D. G., Valente, I. M. F., Aragão, A., Furlin, M., Boas, A. V., Palma, A. & Incerti, F. (eds.). Lisboa: UCP Editora, p. 7-9 3 p. (Cuidar da Casa Comum).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript
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Apresentação da coleção: o cuidar que emerge do feminino para a comum dignidade de todas as coisas
Boas, A. V., Palma, A. & Bingemer, M. C., May 2025, Ecologia e hermenêuticas do feminino. Boas, A. V., Palma, A. & Bingemer, M. C. (eds.). Lisboa: UCP Editora, p. 6-9 4 p. (Cuidar da Casa Comum).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript
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Confluências de profetismo medieval português, a partir de documentação literária entre os séculos XVI e XX e ressonâncias para o fenômeno messiânico no Brasil
Silva, E. (Student) & Boas, A. V. (Co-supervisor)
2024 → …Activity: Supervision
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Saúde e Salvação no pedagogo de Clemente de Alexandria: contributos para uma soteriologia integral
Boas, A. V. (Supervisor) & Kouobou, D. (Student)
2024Activity: Supervision
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Temporality, Liminality, Literature: Carthusian Perspectives
Boas, A. V. (Supervisor) & Hujanen, R. (Student)
2024Activity: Supervision
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“Os dias de Job” de José Tolentino Mendonça
Boas, A. V. (Keynote speaker)
11 May 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Teologia da Tragédia a partir do realismo trágico de Terry Eagleton
Boas, A. V. (Co-supervisor) & Santos, G. M. (Student)
2023 → …Activity: Supervision
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Abusos Sexuais: «Confronto com este problema é, claramente, um lugar privilegiado de reforma da Igreja» – Alfredo Teixeira
Teixeira, A., Eleutério, J., Almeida, J. M. P. D., Stilwell, P., Leite, R. M. & Boas, A. V.
11/07/22
1 item of Media coverage
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Uma anatomia do poder eclesiástico a propósito dos abusos sexuais
Eleutério, J., Melo, R. Q. E., Almeida, J. M. P. D., Stilwell, P., Leite, R. M., Teixeira, A. & Boas, A. V.
26/06/22
1 Media contribution
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Artigo no ENADE 2022 - Exame Nacional de Desempenho de Estudantes
Boas, A. V. V. (Consultant)
Impact: Cultural impacts, Public policy impacts, Social impacts
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