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Previous research has demonstrated that young European Muslims relate to religion and religious authority differently from their parental generation. While traditional ‘ulama (Islamic scholars) are not about to become obsolete, they are nevertheless in…

Religion and cultural change

Anni Maria Laato Published: 2022-03-01 Categories: English

The current issue of Approaching Religion is based on a summer school and conference arranged in Åbo/Turku, Finland, in June 2021, with the theme ‘Religion and Cultural Change’. The event was organized jointly by the Polin Institute for Theological Res…

Public opinion on freedom of religion (and its limitations) in penitentiary establishments in the light of international regulations

Olga Sitarz Published: 2022-03-01 Categories: English

The issue of religious freedom while serving a sentence of imprisonment often occupies scientists from around the world. Basically, they agree that a prisoner, regardless of the act for which he or she has been convicted, has the right to religious fre…

Digitizing the field of women’s Islamic education

Maria Lindebæk Lyngsøe Published: 2022-03-01 Categories: English

This article builds on fieldwork conducted in 2019 and 2020 and examines the implications of Covid-19 lockdown for the engagement of Danish Muslim women in Islamic educational activities. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari (2012) and Larkin (2008b), it di…

Lived religion and mystical experiences

Katarina Johansson Published: 2022-03-01 Categories: English

This article discusses and argues for a ‘new’ and inclusive umbrella concept for varieties of experiences that have been called, inter alia, religious, spiritual, existential, paranormal, extraordinary or inexplicable. The umbrella concept to be explor…

‘I try not to save my soul, but to understand it’

Polina Vrublevskaya Published: 2022-03-01 Categories: English

This article presents a comparative study of the experiences of young adults on a spiritual quest in cultural and religious contexts where they have not yet been properly studied, that is Lutheran Finland, Roman Catholic Poland and Orthodox Russia. The…

‘No “wise” men or women but real doctors!’

Karolina Kouvola Published: 2022-03-01 Categories: English

Magical healers and physicians were among those who provided healing in the medical market of pre-modern Swedish-speaking Ostrobothnia. Using newspaper texts published in the region about local occurrences of magical healing as source material, this ar…

The change in the researcher’s position in the study of shamanism

Jaana Kouri Published: 2022-03-01 Categories: English

Since the 1960s, shamanism has become one of the landmarks for a new way of life and a more respectful relationship of humans with nature in the Western world. Both researchers and practitioners regard the foundation of shamanism as being animism – an …