Religious and spiritual traditions shape how individuals and communities understand suffering, healing, morality, and belonging. My research examples how belief is lived and practiced in everyday life, with particular attention to the ways ritual, narrative, cosmology, and moral frameworks inform experiences of health and wellbeing. Rather than approach religion solely as doctrine or institutional structure, I study how spiritual meaning is embodied, negotiated, and embedded within social relationships, cultural histories, and loval worlds of practice. Across contexts, I explore how belief systems shape identity formation, ethical decision-making, interpretations of adversity, and pathways toward resilience.

Using an ethnographic approach, this work investigates how religious communities respond to discrimination, crisis, and social change, and how spiritual frameworks intersect with medical, psychological, and community systems of care. By examining religion as a dynamic, lived process rather than a static category, my research contributes to broader conversations about meaning-making, cultural knowledge, and the social dimensions of health.

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Recent Work

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