Personal profile
Biography
I am a Doctoral Researcher in the Study of Religion and a member of the Meaningful Margins consortium. My research examines how individuals navigate rupture — trauma, illness, and existential crisis — through engagements with both institutional Christianity and alternative healing practices. I develop the concept of ontological agility to describe how individuals move between different epistemologies and worlds in their search for healing. My broader work contributes to medical anthropology, the anthropology of Christianity, and ontology.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Education/Academic qualification
M.Th., Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki
1 Sept 2023 → 11 Jun 2025
Award Date: 11 Jun 2025
M.Sc.Econ., Aalto University School of Business
1 Sept 2017 → 31 Aug 2022
Award Date: 31 Aug 2022
Keywords
- BL Religion
- Ontological agility
- Altered states of consciousness
- Ethics of care
- Embodiment and the sacred
- Mysticism
- GN Anthropology
- Medical anthropology
- Autoethnography
- BF Psychology
- Trauma and healing
- Spiritual care
- Institutional vs. alternative healing
- BD Speculative Philosophy
- Knowledge pluralism
- Epistemic multiplicity