Dr. Robson Rodrigues Gomes Filho (UEG) received the night of July 26, 2019, at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the "Leila Marrach" Award for best doctoral dissertation in religion studies by the Brazilian Association of History of Religions (ABHR). The award was announced during the 3rd ABHR Southeast Symposium, and doctoral dissertations from various academic areas with a focus on religion studies defended between April 2018 and March 2019 competed.

The award-winning thesis addresses the tensions and adaptations of the Catholic Church to the modern world between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through an analysis of the cases of Bavarian Redemptorist missionaries who migrated to Brazil between 1894 and 1930. The thesis was defended in cotutelle agreement by the Fluminense Federal University (Brazil) and Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, to which the researcher was linked between 2016 and 2017 under the guidance of Professor. Dr. Thomas Fischer at the Zentralinstitut für Lateinamerikastudien (ZILAS).

The thesis can be accessed through the following link. https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-ku-eichstaett/frontdoor/index/index/start/0/rows/10/sortfield/score/sortorder/desc/searchtype/simple/query/robson+gomes+filho/docId/473