Joaquim Fernandes

Joaquim Fernandes is a professor of History at the University Fernando Pessoa in Porto, Portugal, where he is a member of the Center for Transdisciplinary Studies on Consciousness (CTEC). He holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary History. His doctoral thesis explored "The Imagined Extraterrestrial in Portugal from the Middle of the 19th Century to the Modern Era." He is the co-editor of CTEC's journal Cons-sciences. His interests are the history of science and the comparative anthropology of secular and...See more

Joaquim Fernandes is a professor of History at the University Fernando Pessoa in Porto, Portugal, where he is a member of the Center for Transdisciplinary Studies on Consciousness (CTEC). He holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary History. His doctoral thesis explored "The Imagined Extraterrestrial in Portugal from the Middle of the 19th Century to the Modern Era." He is the co-editor of CTEC's journal Cons-sciences. His interests are the history of science and the comparative anthropology of secular and religious visionary experiences, emphasizing the Fátima apparitions of 1917, about which he has co-authored three works with Fina d'Armada. See less