James Kapaló

James A. Kapaló is Professor in the Study of Religions at University College Cork. He is a historian and ethnographer of religion and has conducted archival and ethnographic fieldwork in the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Ukraine and Hungary. From 2016 to 2021, he was Principal Investigator of the European Research Council project Hidden Galleries (project 677355) (http://hiddengalleries.eu/), which explored lived religion during communism through the archives of the secret police. He is the author and editor of several books on lived and material religion in Central and Eastern Europe including Inochentism and Orthodox Christianity: Religious Dissent in the Russian and Romanian Borderlands (Routledge, 2018), Hidden Galleries: Material Religion in the Secret Police Archives in Central and Eastern Europe (with Tatiana Vagramenko, LitVerlag 2021) and The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe (with Kinga Povedák, Routledge 2022).