Minna Opas
PhD
minna.opas@utu.fi +358 29 450 2862 +358 50 472 8191 Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6465-6728 |
anthropology of religion; anthropology of Christianity; indigenous religions; Amazonian indigenous peoples; religion in Latin America; ethnography; material religion;
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.
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.
I am reponsible for advanced studies and doctoral training in Study of Religion.
- Religion and cultural change (2022)
- Approaching Religion
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Editorial note (2021)
- Temenos
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Globaali kristinusko haastaa pohtimaan (2021)
- The Centre for the Study of Christian cultures: Blog
(Popularised article or blog post (E1)) - Ihmistieteellinen neuvo yhteiskunnan häiriötilanteessa (2021) Tiedeneuvo — Ihmistieteen näkökulmia luonnonvarapolitiikan muotoiluun Hiedanpää Juha, Häyrynen Simo, Kamppinen Matti, Kuikka Sakari, Kumpula Anne, Naskali Arto, Oksanen Markku, Peltola Taru, Rannikko Pertti, Setälä Maija, Uusivuori Jussi, Opas Minna, Rönkä Mia
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Kosmoksen rytmi – luontoperusteinen henkisyys tutkimuskohteena (2021) Tiedeneuvo — Ihmistieteen näkökulmia luonnonvarapolitiikan muotoiluun Kamppinen Matti, Opas Minna, Rönkä Mia
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Políticas públicas e indígenas en aislamiento en Perú y Brasil: Entre la asimilación y la autonomía (2021)
- Revista de antropología
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Praying, prayer ideologies and christian inter-denominational relations in indigenous Amazonia Prière, idéologies de la prière et relations interconfessionnelles chrétiennes en Amazonie indigène (2021)
- Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Presentación: Dossier Pensando en el contacto inicial (2021)
- Anthropológica del Departamento de ciencias sociales
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Pueblos Indígenas en Aislamiento y Contacto Inicial (2021) Alzza Carolina Rodríguez , Espinosa Oscar, Opas Minna, Torres Luis Felipe
(Editorship of a scientific special issue, book or conference proceedings (C2)) - Aineellisuus ja uskonto (2020) Tieteen termipankki Minna Opas
(Article in a professional research book (D2)) - Eri tavoin kuviteltu Jumala: Kristillinen rukoilu ja kuvittelun teknologiat. (2020) Kuvittelu ja uskonto: taustoja, tulkintaa ja sovelluksia Minna Opas
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Karismaattisuus (2020) Uskontotieteen ilmiöitä ja näkökulmia Minna Opas
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Kristinusko ja korona (2020)
- The Centre for the Study of Christian cultures: Blog
(Popularised article or blog post (E1)) - Kummat kokemukset ja "normaali" (2020)
- Sosiologia
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Anthropological quarterly:Institutions, Infrastructures, and Religious Sociality: The Difference Denominations Make in Global Christianity (2019) Courtney Handman, Minna Opas
(Editorship of a scientific special issue, book or conference proceedings (C2)) - Approaching Religion: Christianity and politics (2019) Anna Haapalainen, Minna Opas, Marika Räsänen
(Editorship of a scientific special issue, book or conference proceedings (C2)) - Christianity and politics (2019)
- Approaching Religion
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Institutions, Infrastructures, and Religious Sociality: The Difference Denominations Make in Global Christianity (2019)
- Anthropological Quarterly
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2)) - Keeping Boundaries in Motion: Christian Denominationalism and Sociality in Amazonia (2019)
- Anthropological Quarterly
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Resistance beyond the Frontier: Concepts and Policies for the Protection of Isolated Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon (2019)
- Tipití : Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2))