Linda van de Kamp

Linda van de Kamp (PhD VU University Amsterdam, 2011) is a cultural anthropologist and a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. From 2010-2011, she coordinated the International Consortium for Development Partnerships (CDP) devoted to conducting collaborative research activities in Africa at the African Studies Centre, Leiden and in close cooperation with CODESRIA, Dakar.  

Her research activities concentrate on religion and ritual, transnational connections, gender and reproductive issues, cities, violence, and insecurity. Linda has done in-depth research on the emergence of Brazilian Pentecostalism in Mozambique. Recent publications include ‘Converting the Spirit Spouse: The Violent Transformation of the Pentecostal Female Body in Maputo, Mozambique’ (Ethnos 76 (4):510-533, 2011) and 'Pentecostals Moving South-South: Ghanaian and Brazilian Transnationalism in Southern Africa' (Brill, 2010, with Rijk van Dijk).