Project Title: Post-Secular Culture and a Changing Religious Landscape

Project Aims & Objectives:

The erosion of religion – secularization – was long held to constitute an inevitable feature and consequence of modernity and condition of modernization. However, as argued by an increasing number of scholars today, religion has not, after all, lost its societal and cultural relevance as predicted. For instance, immigrant religions, charismatic movements, new religious movements, and alternative spiritualities exemplify the resilience of religion as a social and cultural force. In order to conceptualize this situation in contrast to traditional narratives of secularization, Western societies of today are often referred to in terms of a post-secular culture.

Åbo Akademi University centre of excellence in research 2010-2014 – PCCR – “Post-Secular Culture and a Changing Religious Landscape” is a research project devoted to qualitative and ethnographic investigations of the changing religious landscape in Finland.

Scholars/Institutions: Peter Nynäs, Måns Broo, Kennet Granholm, Tuija Hovi, Ruth Illman, Tuomas Martikainen, Marcus Moberg, Jan Svanberg, Terhi Utriainen

Start Date: January 1, 2010

End Date: December 31, 2014

Research Methods: interviews

Findings/Outcomes:

https://web.abo.fi/fak/hf/relvet/pccr/projects.html

Project Webpage: https://web.abo.fi/fak/hf/relvet/pccr/

Funding Institution: Åbo Akademi University

Funding Information: 1000000

Keywords: religion, post-secular, migration, spirituality

Country of Publication:

• Finland