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Tuomas Äystö

@aystotuomas.eurosky.social

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Associate Professor (Docent) and University Lecturer, Study of Religion, Uni Helsinki. Co-editor of Temenos - Nordic Journal for the Study of Religion. tuomasaysto.mataroa.blog

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Tuomas Äystö @aystotuomas.eurosky.social · 11/06/2026

New issue of Temenos - Nordic Journal for the Study of Religion is out, open access. journal.fi/temenos/issu... Articles on topics such as environmentalism, indigenous activism, Asatru in Denmark, Jewish radicalism, and religious dreams from a cognitivist perspective.

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Tuomas Äystö @aystotuomas.eurosky.social · 12/05/2026

We are not really aiming to advance the concept of Christian nationalism as such (especially not in the normative sense), but we had the data to examine whether the concept would work analytically in a completely different context, so we took the opportunity. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Tuomas Äystö @aystotuomas.eurosky.social · 01/12/2025

I guess this is an example of political secularization. Whereas in the 80s, the US conservative stance on D&D was to critique it as devil worship (often by students on liberal campuses), now D&D needs to be "defended" from liberals wanting to make it more inclusive. Demons no longer the issue.

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Tuomas Äystö @aystotuomas.eurosky.social · 12/09/2025

This is also pretty good if you still want more after that. More in the genre of narrative non-fiction.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/315812/war-for-eternity-by-teitelbaum-benjamin-r/9780141992037

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Tuomas Äystö @aystotuomas.eurosky.social · 10/09/2025

This is a good book.

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Tuomas Äystö @aystotuomas.eurosky.social · 08/07/2025

As depicted in these paintings (alt for details), a head scarf was a standard piece of womens clothing in Finland 100 years ago, particularly in religious (Lutheran) setting.

The Pietists, 1898, by Wendla Irene Soldan-Brofeldt.

Churchgoers, 1900, by Helene Schjerfbeck.

Women outside the Church at Ruokolahti, 1887, by Albert Edelfelt.

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Tuomas Äystö @aystotuomas.eurosky.social · 06/06/2025

The new issue of the Temenos - Nordic Journal for the Study of Religion is now available, open access. journal.fi/temenos/issu...

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Tuomas Äystö @aystotuomas.eurosky.social · 15/04/2025

Many thoughts. I'll share just two. First, does it make sense to speak of arrogance & privilege here, as public atheism would probably hinder one's chanches to become, for example, a high level US politician? academic.oup.com/jaar/article...

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Tuomas Äystö @aystotuomas.eurosky.social · 15/03/2025

Have you read the classic essay "The Californian Ideology" by Richard Barbrook & Andy Cameron? Written in 1996. Haunting read. www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Tuomas Äystö @aystotuomas.eurosky.social · 10/03/2025

An effective way to start an abstract. The article was worthwhile, too. sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...

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Tuomas Äystö @aystotuomas.eurosky.social · 05/03/2025

New open access book "Religion, Law, and COVID-19 in Europe", edited by Brian Conway, Lene Kühle, Francesco Alicino and Gabriel Bîrsan. hup.fi/site/books/e...

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