Lying on the border between eastern and western Christendom, Orthodox Karelia preserved
its unique religious culture into the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was described and …

It is widely recognized that folk beliefs flourished in early modern Finland which had formally
been Christianized for centuries. These folk beliefs seem to propose, in the modern view …

This article discusses relational ontology and its significance for interpreting archaeological
material from post-medieval contexts. The general theory of the relational constitution of the …

Tarkastelen väitöskirjassani puoliherroja suomalaisessa sanomalehdistössä vuosina 1847–
1870. Haen tutkimuksessani vastauksia seuraaviin kysymyksiin: mitä talonpoikaisuuden …

This book examines women's relationship to the Virgin Mary in two different cultural and
religious contexts, and compares how these relationships have been analyzed and …

The article focuses on the popular conceptualisation of a death-related agent which is
known in Finnish folk belief and narratives by the name churchyard-väki (väki means 'crowd' …

This paper arises from a study of the 17th-and 18th-century zooarchaeological record from
Tornio, Finland—at that time the northernmost town in Europe. The proportion of game …

The broad aim of this thesis is twofold: firstly, I contextualise the Maausk movement and its
practitioners' understandings in relation to history and the surrounding society; secondly, I …

This chapter explores the relationship between spirituality and engagement with the material
world in post-medieval Europe. Spirituality is often understood as the subjective experience …

In Finnish belief narratives, the church building has been a popular theme and a setting of
terrifying events. Folk legends about the church use dramatic vernacular imagery: people …