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Minna
Opas
Docent, School of History, Culture and Arts Studies
University Lecturer, Study of Cultures
PhD

Contact

+358 29 450 2862
+358 50 472 8191
Arcanuminkuja 1
20500
Turku

Areas of expertise

anthropology of religion
anthropology of Christianity
indigenous religions
Amazonian indigenous peoples
religion in Latin America
ethnography
material religion;

Biography

Dr Minna Opas is Professor of Study of Religion (fixed-term), University of Turku, Finland. She is Director of the Centre for the Study of Christian Cultures (cscc.utu.fi) and co-editor in-chief of Temenos: Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion.

Teaching

I am reponsible for advanced studies and doctoral training in Study of Religion.

Research


Minna Opas is an ethnographer of religion. She is interested in questions related to the anthropology of Christianity and indigenous religions and cultures. Driven by the aim to understand religion as lived, she has studied Christianity especially in the Amazonian indigenous context, concentrating on questions of materiality, corporeality, religious imagination, and interdenominational relations. Her recent publications on Christianity include a special journal issue of Anthropological Quarterly titled Institutions, Infrastructures, and Religious Sociality: The Difference Denominations Make (co-edited with Courtney Handman), and a co-edited volume Christianity and Limits of Materiality (with Anna Haapalainen, Bloomsbury). She is the director of the Centre for the Study of Christian Cultures (cscc.utu.fi) at the University of Turku and co-editor in-chief of Temenos: Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion.

Publications

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Editorial note (2023)

Temenos
Sjö Sofia, Opas minna
(B1 Vertaisarvioimaton kirjoitus tieteellisessä lehdessä )

Editorial note (2023)

Temenos
Opas Minna, Sjö Sofia
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))

Religion and cultural change (2022)

Approaching Religion
Laato Anni-Maria, Opas Minna, Illman Ruth
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))

Editorial note (2022)

Temenos
Opas Minna, Sjö Sofia
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))