Julia Kuhlin is a postdoctoral researcher at Humlab, specializing in digital practices. She leads the project "And Jesus Said, Please Like, Share, and Follow: Swedish Free Churches on Instagram," which focuses on the visual communication and identity formation of the Swedish Free Churches on social media. As part of the project, she also explores the roles of so-called religious digital creatives within Free Churches in Sweden today.
Julia has a background in theology and religious studies. She completed her doctoral studies in 2022 with a thesis titled "Lived Pentecostalism in India: Middle Class Women and Their Everyday Religion" which examines the lived religion of women within Pentecostal churches in India.
Research areas: digital religion, social media, lived religion, global Pentecostalism, Christianity in India, the Swedish Free Churches, religion and gender.