James A. Kapaló is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religions at University College Cork, Ireland and co-Director of the Marginalised and Endangered Worldviews Study Centre (MEWSC – https://mewsc.wordpress.com/). He is author of Text, Context and Performance: Gagauz Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice (Leiden: Brill, 2011) and Inochentism and Orthodox Christianity: Religious Dissent on the Russian and Romanian Borderlands (forthcoming Routledge: London, 2019) and several has published several articles on religious minorities in Central and Eastern Europe. He is 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).