- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Research in Social Sciences
- Religious Tourism and Spaces
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Media, Religion, Digital Communication
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Religious Education and Schools
- Psychedelics and Drug Studies
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Historical Legal Studies and Society
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Education and Islamic Studies
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
- Study and Philosophy of Religion
- Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
- Jewish Identity and Society
- Theological Perspectives and Practices
- Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Medication Adherence and Compliance
- Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
University of Helsinki
2003-2024
Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters
2023
University of Turku
2019-2021
Estonian Literary Museum
2021
Hôpital Pontchaillou
2019
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rennes
2019
Learning penetrates religion in many ways. Primary religious socialisation – sometimes referred to as nurture is the process by which children are explicitly and purposefully taught do things religiously or they learn implicitly following what their families other people around them do, speak feel. In secondary one sets about learning something additional different from was learned internalised one’s non-religious childhood home surroundings. Secondary may also entail processes of unlearning...
In spite of the variety often welcome everyday enchantments and empowerment that lived religion may bring to an individual in his/her personal life, it become problematic a person’s social life due provoking tensions with significant others who hold different worldviews. This controversy necessitates adoption tactics practices for adjustment regulation, should wish enhance benefits religious enchantment and, simultaneously, maintain position shared lifeworld. article argues ritual theory,...
In this article, we apply and assess the concept of transreligiosity in study formally educated licensed psychologists psychotherapists Finland who integrate mindfulness practices their professional toolkit. Our analytical focus complements discussion on use religious spiritual traditions as therapeutic resources by turning scholarly attention from individual coping tools to skills work complementary alternative medicine (CAM) mainstream health care education. field research, add cumulative...
Abstract In many western societies health professionals play a powerful role in people's experiences of dying. Religious professionals, such as pastors, are also confronted with the issues surrounding death and dying their work. It is therefore reasonable to assume that ways which death‐related topics, euthanasia, constructed given culture affected by views these professionals. This qualitative study addresses Finnish physicians religious perceive describe euthanasia conceptualises...
Women have traditionally been important ritual agents with regard to death and dying they still form the majority of care-givers for in modern Western societies such as Finland. The article asks how women's role position has changed within modernity. While first phase modernity was very much based on division labour between doctor chaplain, latter phase, new responsibilities delegated women carers nurses spiritual care dying. This process change is analysed an example de-differentiation (a...
Abstract The article explores the multisite learning of Islam by Finnish Muslims from perspective connectivist theory, which makes visible central contemporary ways that emphasize role digitalization and collaborative with peers. We focus especially on in context Ramadan because, for many, holy month is an essential time apprehending Islamic tenets practices. Our research indicates understanding among our participants a result complex set connections nodes information, both online offline....
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Based on a one-month (April 2020) comparative observation of media content in three Estonian and Finnish mainstream sources (two daily newspapers one weekly women’s magazine) along with some examples from an earlier period, the authors analysed representation complementary alternative medicine (CAM) media. The analysis showed that two countries presented CAM both its various more fringe forms, pejorative as well complimentary attracting undertones were present. conclude topics present...
‘The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and becoming disillusioned.’ This diagnosis modern life, given by Gramsci, can be translated as pointing towards varying positions between secularity (even secularism), on the one hand, (religious or political) belief commitment other. crossroads disbelief, enchantment disenchantment, topical in new ways after recent revisions secularization theories current revitalization religions. Moreover, it also has bearings how people bring...