Timo Kallinen

Timo Kallinen (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7916-6203) is Professor of Comparative Religion at the University of Eastern Finland and a Docent of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki. His research interests include religion, ritual and secularism, but he has also published on topics related to environmental, economic and legal anthropology. His recent book, Divine Rulers in a Secular State (2016), was the culmination of a project looking at the transformation of sacred chiefship/kingship in Ghana and seeking better to understand processes of secularisation in Africa and elsewhere in the Global South.