Helena Kupari

Helena Kupari is a Finnish sociologist of religion whose PhD thesis examined the lived, everyday religion of elderly Orthodox women displaced from Karelia after World War II.[1][2] She is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Cultures, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, Finland, and has edited works on Orthodox Christianity and gender dynamics.[3] Her research also explores religious practices among Finns who join the Orthodox Church as adults and women as agents of glocalization in the Orthodox Church of Finland.[4][5]