About

I’m working on my Ph.D. in Religious Studies on registering of religious communities. I concentrate on new and minor groups that aren’t connected with the World Religions -category. Cases include Wiccan, Pastafarianism, Fenno Religiosity, and Discordianism.

Education

MA, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2012

BA, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2009

Blog Posts

    Publications

    “‘On näitä, jotka on ihan aitoja’. Uususkonnollisten yhdyskuntien rekisteröinnin arviointiperusteista 2000-luvun Suomessa”, Tiedelehti Hybris. 2/2020.

     

    “Uskonnonvapaus ihmisoikeutena” in Pesonen & Sakaranaho (eds) Uskontotieteen ilmiöitä ja näkökulmia. With Tuula Sakaranaho. 5/2020.

    “Huumori” in Pesonen & Sakaranaho (eds) Uskontotieteen ilmiöitä ja näkökulmia. With Hanna Gebraad. 5/2020.

    “‘Impartial Sources’ and the Registration of Religious Communities in Finland” in Journal for the Academic Study of Religion. 31/1. p. 3-26

    “What do we talk about when we talk about legitimate religion? Failure and success in the registration of two Pagan communities in Finland” with Jussi Sohlberg and Titus Hjelm, 14th Aug 2018, in Minority Religions in Europe and the Middle East: Mapping and Monitoring. Chryssides, G. D. (ed.).Routledge, (Routledge Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements; no. 13).

    “Serious Parody: Discordianism as liquid religion” in Culture and Religion, vol. 14 iss. 4/2013. 

    Essi Mäkelä

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