Lee Scharnick-Udemans

Senior Researcher, The Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice

Trained in the study of religion and society, Dr. Lee Scharnick-Udemans researches, teaches and supervises in the area of religious diversity, pluralism, religion education, the political economy of religion, new religious movements, and the media. Her current research focusses on religious diversity and pluralism and their intellectual contribution to the interdisciplinary and intersectional study of religion and their social significance for understanding and enacting equality in a vastly inequitable world. She is a senior researcher at The Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice.