Não perca o capítulo de Paulo Mendes Pinto e Sofia Sousa Claro, sobre Portugal, no livro East Asian Religiosities in the European Union. Globalisation, Migration, and Hybridity

With contacts spanning almost half a millennium, Portugal’s relationship with East Asia is almost exclusively one of trade. In addition to the low demographic presence of people from East Asia, especially Chinese citizens, there has been very little religious activity, and Chinese organisations are almost exclusively commercial in nature. Institutions, whether state or academic, with some cultural activity, either focus on tools for trade, especially language, or present culture as quite separate from religion. The few organised religious communities are small and recent. The vitality of Christian practice, whether Protestant or Catholic, stands out in both the Chinese and South Korean communities. Traditions from Japan are few in numbers.

Paulo Mendes Pinto e Sofia Sousa Claro, “Portugal", in Laurence Cox, Ugo Dessì, Lukas K. Pokorny (Eds.), East Asian Religiosities in the European Union. Globalisation, Migration, and Hybridity, Brill, 2024.