Justine Bakker

Justine Bakker is Assistant Professor of Comparative Religious Studies at Radboud University. She researches the intersections of race and religion, with a specific focus on alternative, heterodox, and esoteric forms of religiosity and method and theory in religious studies. Her work has appeared in Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, Aries, and Correspondences. In 2023, together with Tanya Cheadle (University of Glasgow), she began the ongoing “Normative Esotericism” project, which seeks to investigate the regulation of sex, gender, and race in modern alternative spirituality.