2 PREVIOUS POSITIONS (selected)

Curriculum Vitae PETER NYNÄS Prof. NYNÄS, Peter Nils Valdemar Åbo Akademi University Faculty of Arts Tehtaankatu 2, FIN- 20500, Åbo, Finland +358 (0)40 5873 187 peter.nynas@abo.fi 1 CURRENT POSITION Professor of comparative religion, Åbo Akademi University (since 1.8.2008) Director of the Åbo Akademi University Centre of excellence in Research Post- secular culture and a changing religious landscape in Finland, http://web.abo.fi/fak/hf/relvet/pccr/, 2010-2014. Project leader of Veiwpoints to the world: Prototypes of worldview an their relation to motivational values in different social movements, funded by Academy of Finland, 2011-2015, http://web.abo.fi/fak/hf/relvet/pccr/wievpoints.html Partner of Leading Industrial Networks through Boundary- Spanning Business Models (Liin), research project funded by TEKES 2013-2014. 2 PREVIOUS POSITIONS (selected) Senior lecturer of psychology of religion, Uppsala University, Sweden (1.7.2007 30.6.2008) Research with grants, the Donner Institute, Åbo, Finland (1.1.2007-30.6.2007) Post doctoral researcher at NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the interdisciplinary research project Spaces of Mobility, Norway (1.9.2003-30.8.2006) Secretary of communication and media, the Department for administration of Swedish affairs, Church council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, Finland (1.1.2001-31.12.2006). Secretary of adult education and culture, the diocese of Porvoo, the 1

Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, Finland (1.10.1999-31.12.2000). Researcher, Department of Business Studies, Åbo Akademi University, Finland (1.8.1999-31.12.1999) 3 EDUCATION Training in psychodynamic therapy for higher competence (to be completed). Docent (adjunct professor) of Comparative Religion, Åbo Akademi University, Finland 19.5.2006 (excellent teaching skills). Doctor of Theology at Åbo Akademi University, Finland 11.9.2001. Grade: Laudatur. Licentiate in Theology at Åbo Akademi University, Finland 1998. Grade: Eximia cum laude approbatur. Master of Arts, Åbo Akademi University, Finland 1996. Major subject: comparative religion; minor subjects: theology, peace and conflict studies. Grade: eximia cum laude approbatur. Matriculation examination at a Finnish higher secondary school (Jakobstads gymnasium) in 1988. Pedagogical education Completed 25 credits (Basic Studies) of University Pedagogy in 2009, Åbo Akademi University and Turku University, Finland. Overall grade: 4/5. Teaching skills assessed by pedagogical board (2008, 2009, Åbo Akademi University). Grade for each assessment: excellent teaching skills. Languages Swedish: mother tongue, spoken and written skills excellent. Finnish: spoken and written skills very good. English: spoken and written skills very good French: spoken and written skills basic. 4 AWARDS The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland, main prize for doctoral thesis, 2002 Svenska folkskolans vänner, the Östen Engström prize for research in communication, 1998 Brahe Wings and lyre nr. 63 (honorary medal), Student Union at Åbo Akademi Brahe Wings nr. 311 (honorary medal), Student Union at Åbo Akademi University 2

5 OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITY Positions of trust (current / selected) Member of the board (vice- president) the Finnish Society for the Study of Religion Partner and member of Steering Group for Leading Industrial Networks through Boundary- Spanning Business Models (Liin), research project funded by TEKES. Member of the board of the Graduate School of Åbo Akademi University Member of the Faculty board, Åbo Akademi University, Faculty of Arts. Member of editorial board, Journal of Intercultural Communication (JICC) Member of editorial board, Approaching Religion. 6 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Peer- reviewed scientific articles 2012 Re- framing the Intersection between Religion: Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life, Religion (with Andrew Yip), Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life, Peter Nynäs and Andrew Kam- Tuck Yip (eds.). London: Ashgate, 1-16. 2012 Relocating and Communicating the Sacred: The Reception of a Chapel in a Shopping Mall (with A. B. Pessi), Sacred in the City, W.Van Herck & L. Gomez (eds). London and New York: Continuum, 161-190. 2012 Trajectories of Post- Secular Complexity (with Marcus Moberg, Kennet Granholm), Post- secular society, Peter Nynäs, Mika Lassander, and Terhi Utriainen, (eds). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1-26. 2012 Characteristics of Contemporary Religious Change: Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Interpretative Tendencies (with Liselotte Frisk), Post- secular society, Peter Nynäs, Mika Lassander, and Terhi Utriainen (eds). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 47-70. 2011 Intercultural Competence and False Projections: A Perspective on the Critical Tradition of Intercultural Documentary Film, Transforming Otherness, Finch, Jason & Nynäs, P. (eds.). London: Transaction, 213-243. 2009 Spatiality, practice and meaning: the existential ambiguity of urban chapels, Theology, Built Environments: Religion, Architecture & Design, Sigurd Bergmann (ed). London: Transaction, 131-150 3

2008 Counter- Intuitive Religious Representations from the Perspective of Early Intersubjective Development and Complex Representational Constellations. A methodological reflection, Archive for the Psychology of Religion, vol. 30 (1), 37-55. 2008 Ett kapell tre rum: ett integrerat rollteoretiskt perspektiv på tolkning och meningsskapande kring ett modernt kapell, Teologisk Tidskrift,113 (4), 314-332. 2008 From sacred place to an existential dimension of mobility, The Ethics of Mobilities. Rethinking Place, Exclusion, Freedom and Environment, Sigurd Bergmann & Tore Sager (eds). Aldershot: Ashgate, 155-174. 2008 Global vagabonds, place and the self: the existential dimension of mobility, Spaces of Mobility: Essays on the planning, ethics, engineering and religion of human motion, Sigurd Bergmann, Thomas Hoff & Tore Sager (eds): London: Equinox, 155-176. 2006 A hermeneutic perspective on intercultural communication: interpretative models of estrangement and identification, Bridges of Understanding. Perspectives on Intercultural Communication, Øivind Dahl, Iben Jensen & Peter Nynäs, (eds.). Oslo: Oslo Academic Press, 23-37. 2006 Intercultural Communication and the Use of Signs in Peace- Building in Mali (with K. Lode), Bridges of Understanding. Perspectives on Intercultural Communication, Øivind Dahl, Iben Jensen & Peter Nynäs (eds). Oslo: Oslo Academic Press, 271-285. 2006 Människosynen och det kognitiva studiet av religion en fråga med moraliska implikationer, Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 82 (2), 60-73. 2006 Jakobskampen i Dag Hammarskjölds religiositet: ett integrerat religionspsykologiskt perspektiv, Teologisk Tidskrift, 111 (3), 254-266. 2003 Att röra vid tiden: Tidsrelationer ur ett religionspsykologiskt perspektiv, Människan och tiden. Time and humanity, Nils G. Holm & Ulrika Wolf- Knuts (eds), Religionsvetenskapliga skrifter nr 60, Åbo: Åbo Akademi, 143-165. 2003 Estrangement redefined. A hermeneutic approach, Intercultural Communication: Past and Future. Selected papers, Nils G. Holm & Johanna Quiroz- Schauman (eds), Åbo: Åbo Akademi, 128-137. Non- reviewed scientific articles 2011 Multiple bodies in the spirituality of the gay porn star McCree: Reflections on corporeality and subjectivity, Religion and the Body, Ahlbäck Tore, with Björn Dahla (eds). Turku: the Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History, 333-350. 4

2010 Moderna kyrkorum. Rörelse som existenstolkning, Religion som rörelse. Exkursioner i rum, tro och mobilitet, Sigurd Bergmann, Maria Jansdotter Samuelsson, Anders Melin, Peter Nynäs, David Olsson Kronlid & Sofia Sjö (eds). Trondheim: Tapir, 69-91. 2010 Det delade rummet. Fiktiva landskap som rum för existentiell dialog, (tills. med Sofia Sjö), Religion som rörelse. Exkursioner i rum, tro och mobilitet, Sigurd Bergmann, Maria Jansdotter Samuelsson, Anders Melin, Peter Nynäs, David Olsson Kronlid & Sofia Sjö (eds), Trondheim: Tapir, 135-151 2005 Möten mellan religioner ett humanistiskt perspektiv på religionsteologi, Tro och mångfald, Religionsmöten och religionsteologi i Norden, Yvonne Terlinden (ed). Borgå: Nordiska Ministerrådet, TemaNord 2005:582, 119-132. 2005 Global Mobility in International Projects: an Existential Dimension, Project Perspectives, Kim Wikström, Magnus Gustafsson & Rebecca Karlsson (eds). Åbo: Foundation for Project Research, 147-183. 2004 Intercultural competence in international projects: an interpretative approach, Projects and Profits, ICFAI University Press, vol IV, 16-29. 2004 Intercultural competence in international projects: an interpretative approach, Project Perspectives, Kim Wikström, Magnus Gustafsson & Rebecca Karlsson (eds). Åbo: Foundation for Project Research, 157 188. 2003 Intercultural communication in industrial projects, Project Perspectives, Kim Wikström, Magnus Gustafsson & Ruth Illman (eds). Åbo: Foundation for Project Research, 160-176. 1999 Ich kann mich in sie nicht finden: the role of understanding in intercultural communication theory, Intercultural communication and changing national identities. Selected Papers, (eds. Marju Lauristin & Leen Rahnu). Tartu: Tartu University Press, 27-36. 1999 Ich kann mich in sie nicht finden: Understanding, communication and cultural difference, Working papers from the Research group for project- based industry at Åbo Akademi University N:o 4. Åbo: Åbo Akademi. 1998 Candides prekära situation: Kultur och förståelse i projektbaserad internationell industry. Åbo: Åbo Akademi. Scientific books (monographs and edited volumes) 2012 Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life, Peter Nynäs and Andrew Kam- Tuck Yip (eds). Aldershot: Ashgate. 2012 Post- secular society, Peter Nynäs, Mika Lassander, and Terhi Utriainen, (eds). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction. 5

2011 Transforming Otherness, Finch, J. & Nynäs, P. (eds). New Brunswick: Transaction. 2010 Religion som rörelse: Exkursioner i rum, tro och mobilitet, Sigurd Bergmann, Maria Jansdotter Samuelsson, Anders Melin, Peter Nynäs, David Olsson Kronlid & Sofia Sjö. Trondheim: Tapir. 2007 Finns det någon som känner min röst? Religionspsykologisk studie av objektsökande tolkningsprocesser i radioandaktsreception. Nora: Nya Doxa. 2006 Bridges of Understanding: Perspectives on Intercultural Communication, Øivind Dahl, Iben Jensen & Peter Nynäs (eds). Oslo: Oslo Academic Press. 2005 Kultur, människa, möte. Ett humanistiskt perspektiv, Lund: Studentlitteratur, (with Ruth Illman). Publications int. for the general public 2011 Den drömda kroppen som en samtida myt, Astra Nova, nr 3. 2009 Kropp och fantasi: Nedslag i japansk litteratur, - Finsk Tidskrift, 4, 196-208. 2006 Andlighet i hypermobilitetens tid, Årsbok för Borgå stift. Helsingfors: Församlingsförbundets förlag, 43-49. 2006 Dialog: vårt ansvar i den oavslutade skapelsen, Crux, 3, 22-23. 2006 Dialogens landskap, 24tretton, 36-39. 2004 Språket och en plats för gud: religionspsykologiska reflektioner, Finsk Tidskrift, 4, 243-258. 1997 Om jag skriver en sång. Eva Dahlgren från verklighet till identifikation, Finsk Tidskrift 2-3, 123-132. 1995 Förvandling: ett tema i Solveig von Schoultz poesi, Vår Lösen, 8, 630-637. Theses 2001 Bakom Guds rygg: En hermeneutisk ansats till interkulturell kommunikation och förståelse i industriella projekt, Åbo: Åbo Akademis Förlag, (Dr. Thesis). 1998 Kultur och förståelse. En studie av interkulturell kommunikation mellan säljare och kund inom internationell projektbaserad industri, Åbo: Meddelanden från Ekonomisk- statsvetenskapliga fakulteten vid Åbo Akademi (Licentiate Thesis) 6