Geography and the Space of the Sacred

Virna Barra is a PhD researcher in geography at Coimbra University, Portugal and a professor at the Catholic College of Belém, in the Brazilian Amazon region, where she teaches an introductory course on geography and biblical archaeology. She also teaches geography, integration area and English for public and private schools in Portugal. She also does work with translations and the teaching of Ancient Greek and Hebrew languages. She is co-author of the article ‘Geography and Religion: the Anglo-Saxon academic perspective in the 2nd half of the 20th century’, in partnership with her academic advisor, Professor Fátima Velez de Castro. She completed her bachelor’s degree in geography at the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil and her master’s degree in human geography, planning and healthy territories at Coimbra University. She also became a specialist in religion sciences at Candido Mendes University, Brazil.