This photo essay presents the second edition of the Ratha Yatra religious festival in Lisbon, organised by ISKCON Lisbon since 2016. The festival brings together diverse immigrant groups, entities and communities in a collective performance through the streets of Lisbon, examining how religious parades function as sites of migrant belonging and intercultural encounter in the urban public space.

The cosmopolitan character of Lisbon and processes of touristification and gentrification have transformed the city’s cultural activities in recent years, shifting how the Lisbon City Council addresses immigrant and immigrant communities. This article examines how the Hare Krishna devotees and Hindu immigrants use the public space to express themselves in the city where they live, arguing that participatory performance — through the Ratha Yatra festival, collective singing, and dancing — becomes fundamental to creating a sense of belonging in the city of Lisbon, even among groups that share religious practices but differ in origin and cultural content.

This photo essay introduces the subject of Toy Photography, a recent genre in which dolls and action figures are staged in photographs that aim to reproduce their imagined environments and stories. The intent is to make toys appear lifelike — to remove the sense of artificiality and instead create scenes that feel inhabited. This essay explores the genre’s visual conventions, its community of practitioners, and its relationship to broader questions of play, nostalgia, and image-making.

The Hare Krishna movement is a transnational spiritual practice with temples across the world. Published in the Dossier on Displacement and Migration, this article examines devotional practices among Hare Krishna migrants in Lisbon, exploring how religious rituals in the streets of the city create spaces of community, identity affirmation, and belonging for a diverse group of immigrants — drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Lisbon between the community’s temple activities and its presence in urban public space.

This article presents preliminary results from online ethnography conducted among Hare Krishna devotees in Lisbon. Examining the multi-situated community that forms the object of doctoral research on devotion, this paper explores the intersection of digital interaction, religious practice and music-making — asking how online spaces mediate devotional experience and musical participation among a transnational religious community based in Lisbon.

A photo essay based on doctoral ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2012 and 2015 among Hare Krishna devotees in Lisbon. The essay examines how the community — predominantly Brazilian, Russian, Ukrainian, Nepalese, Indian and Portuguese — develops a transnational religious identity through music, specifically through the Harinama (street chanting) and Sunday Feast practices at the Lisbon temple. The Harinama’s route through the city centre — from Rua de São Paulo through Rossio Largo de Camões and back — becomes a mobile space of devotion, community reaffirmation and encounter with strangers.