Teemu Pauha

Teemu Pauha (MA, MTh, PhD) is a psychologist and scholar of religion who serves as a university lecturer in Islamic theology at the University of Helsinki. Pauha also holds the Title of Docent (associate professor) in the study of religion at the University of Turku and in the study of religions and Islamic studies at the University of Helsinki. His expertise includes the social psychology of religious identity and interreligious relationships, particularly in the context of Islam in Europe. After completing his PhD thesis on the religious and national identities of young Finnish Muslims, Pauha has published research on such topics as apostasy from Islam, Finnish mosque conflicts, Sunni–Shia relations, interreligious attitudes of atheists, and martial arts. He has also edited (in Finnish) collections of articles on Finnish Muslims and the psychology of religion. Since 2014, Pauha has authored or coauthored the Finnish section of the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe (Brill), and since 2024, he has served as editor-in-chief of Studia Theologica: Nordic Journal of Theology.