Minna Opas on Turun yliopiston uskontotieteen ma. professori. Hän on Centre for the Study of Christian Cultures (cscc.utu.fi) -tutkimuskeskuksen johtaja sekä Temenos: Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion -julkaisun toinen päätoimittaja.

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.

Toimin tällä hetkellä uskontotieteessä ma. professorina. Vastaan uskontotieteen syventävistä opinnoista ja tohtorikoulutuksesta uskontotieteessä.