Meanwhile, the authors' antidote to the American sicknessa quest for democratic community that draws on our diverse civic and religious traditionshas contributed to a vigorous scholarly and popular debate. Attention has been focused on forms of social organization, be it civil society, democratic communitarianism, or associative democracy, that can humanize the market and the administrative state. In their new Introduction the authors relate the argument of their book both to the current realities of American society and to the growing debate about the country's future. With this new edition one of the most influential books of recent times takes on a new immediacy.\

Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life

Habits of the Heart Individualism and Commitment in American Life

Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts

edited by Hannele Niemi, Auli Toom and Arto Kalliomaki, Rotterdam, Sense Publishing, 2012, 302 pp., US$49.00 (paperback), ISBN 978 9-460-91809-4 This volume is an edited book with 18 chapters by di...

Miracle of education: the principles and practices of teaching and learning in Finnish schools

Part One: Methodological Issues 1. Introduction (Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler) 2. Comparison (Michael Stausberg) 3. Epistemology (Jeppe Sinding Jensen) 4. Feminist methodologies (Mary Jo Neitz) 5. Research design (Wade Clark Roof) 6. Research ethics (Fred Bird and Laurie Lamoureux Scholes) Part Two: Methods 1. Content analysis (Robert H. Woods and Chad Nelson) 2. Conversation analysis (Ehsa Lehtinen) 3. Discourse analysis (Titus Hjelm) 4. Document analysis (Grace Davie and David Wyatt) 5. Experiments (Justin Barrett) 6. Facet theory methods (Erik Cohen) 7. Factor analysis (Kendal C. Boyd) 8. Field research: participant observation (Graham Harvey) 9. Free listing (Michael Stausberg) 10. Grounded theory (Steven Engler) 11. Hermeneutics (Ingvild Saelid Gilhus) 12. History (Jorg Rupke) 13. Interviewing (Anna Davidsson Bremborg) 14. Network analysis (jimi adams) 15. Phenomenology (James V. Spickard) 16. Philology (Einar Thomassen) 17. Semiotics (Robert A. Yelle) 18. Structuralist methods (Seth D. Kunin) 19. Structured observation (Michael Stausberg) 20. Surveys and questionnaires (Barry A. Kosmin and Juhem Navarro-Rivera) 21. Translation (Alan Williams) 22. Videography (Hubert Knoblauch) Part Three: Materials 1. Auditory materials (Rosalind I.J. Hackett) 2. Internet (Douglas E. Cowan) 3. Material culture (Richard M. Carp) 4. Spatial methods (Kim Knott) 5. Visual culture (John Harvey)

The Routledge handbook of research methods in the study of religion

In recent decades, the Finnish state has developed multicultural policies that aim at fostering the cultural identity of people coming to Finland from different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. This aim has had clear practical consequences in the Finnish state-supported schools, where, along with the Finnish and Swedish languages, pupils with different linguistic backgrounds now have the right to learn their native tongue within the frame of the school curriculum. In similar fashion, the state favours a multiple solution as regards religious education, so that pupils belonging to different religious communities have the right to “education in accordance with their own religion”. In addition, Ethics is taught to those pupils who are not members of any religious community. Consequently, several religions are today taught in Finnish schools, as well as secular Ethics. Nevertheless, the current system of religious education in Finland is ridden with contradictions. This article first offers an overview of the most recent developments, legal provisions and contents of religious education in state-supported schools in Finland. Next, it identifies some of the sore issues in the current system, and, finally, it reflects on the possible role of the Study of Religions in the field of religious education.

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Religious Education in Finland

This article serves as an introduction to the special issue on Islam in the Republic of Ireland. The introduction gives a brief overview of previous studies on Islam and Muslims in Ireland and shows their links with the studies published in this issue. Second, it presents in a concise manner the historical development of Islam in Ireland with respect to the increasing numbers of Muslims. As Ireland became a new destination for immigrants during the years of the economic boom, nicknamed the “Celtic Tiger Years”, immigrants and refugees arrived in a manner that would not have been anticipated some decades ago. The article also examines the subsequent process of the institutionalization of Islam in the country. Third, issues concerning the accommodation of Muslims in the Irish educational system, which in similar fashion to other European countries are also debated in Ireland, are discussed in order to investigate questions around the integration and accommodation of Muslims and the place of Islam in “religi...

Islam and Muslims in the Republic of Ireland: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Recent decades have witnessed a change in European governments’ policies from benign neglect to active management of religious diversity, where Islam is often seen as the most challenging religion for the European social order. However, the ways in which this ‘management’ is justified and undertaken varies from country to country and depends on the situation at hand. This paper will take up the issue of Islamic education in Finland and Ireland, where it is incorporated into the public school system with the state taking an active role in order to control how Islam is taught. The main argument of this article is that the ‘management’ of Islamic education in both of these countries is ridden with contradictions arising from the difficulty of balancing between an emphasis on particular national traditions, on the one hand, and public policies concerning religious diversity, on the other. Theoretically, the article will employ the perspective of multilevel governance in relation to religious diversity, which helps to widen the analytical lens from regarding the state as a primary explanatory factor to examining different agents of the civil society.

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Encountering religious diversity: multilevel governance of Islamic education in Finland and Ireland

Religion has become a pressing matter in different fields of multicultural European society, which raises the question as to how best to govern religious diversity. What we argue in this book is that a successful governance of religious diversity necessitates the development of religious literacy. As such, religious literacy can be understood in a variety of ways depending on the particular context. This book draws on different empirical case studies concerning Finland, covering traditional Finnish religious movements and issues pertaining to immigration and the growing ethnic and religious diversity of Finnish society. In doing so, it delves, among other matters, into the field of school education and state policies against radicalization and violence.

The Challenges of Religious Literacy : The Case of Finland

In recent decades memory studies have gained great popularity in the humanities and social sciences, and not without cause. At least since the 1980s we have witnessed something which has been called an international memory boom. The article first looks at some explanations as to why memory fascinates people of our own time; it then focuses on questions as to how we can study religion from the point of view of social memory. The discussion is based on ideas derived from the French sociologists Maurice Halbwachs and Daniele Hervieu-Leger, and is structured in terms of recollection, events, narratives, communities and tradition. Finally, I reflect upon the criticism directed against the theory of religion as a chain of memory in the study of world religions, the latter of course being one of the main tasks of our discipline. In the concluding remarks, I comment on the simultaneous rise during recent decades of religion and of a worldwide interest in memory: both address the need to belong to and be part of something larger.

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Tuula Sakaranaho

Papers

Religious Education in Finland

Islam and Muslims in the Republic of Ireland: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Encountering religious diversity: multilevel governance of Islamic education in Finland and Ireland

The Challenges of Religious Literacy : The Case of Finland

Religion and the Study of Social Memory