James Kapaló is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religions at University College Cork, Ireland, and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council project “Creative Agency and Religious Minorities: ‘Hidden Galleries’ in the Secret Police Archives in Central and Eastern Europe” (project no. 677355). He is the author of two monographs, Text, Context, and Performance: Gagauz Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice (Brill, 2011) and Inochentism and Orthodox Christianity: Religious Dissent in the Russian and Romanian Borderlands (Routledge, 2019).