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Helena Kupari is a scholar of religion and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Cultures, Faculty of Humanities, University of Helsinki. Since completing her PhD in April 2015, her work focuses on Orthodox Christianity in Finland, particularly examining lived religion through lenses of gender, age, class, ethnicity, and social power.
- Academy of Finland funded projects:
- Conversion to Orthodox Christianity and Class Culture (2019–2022)
- Learning from New Religion and Spirituality (2019–2023)
- MeDea: Meaningful Deathscapes (2024–2028)
- Prior teaching experience: Gender & religion, sociology of religion, fieldwork methodology
Her research employs practice theory, feminist theory, and ethnographic methodologies. Recent projects analyze intersections between Orthodox Christianity, class culture, and contemporary spirituality trends in Finland.
Research output includes 42 publications across topics like:
- Materiality in religious conversion
- Ritualization in Orthodox practices
- Comparative analyses of traditional and new spiritual movements
- Gendered dimensions of religious identity
- Social memory in minority religious contexts
- Cultural change dynamics in Finnish religious landscapes
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