Areas of expertise
Research field: religious studies
- Orthodox Karelia
- lived religion
- oral history research
- archive materials
I am a PhD researcher in religious studies at the University of Eastern Finland.
My research is funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation. My research deals with lived religion in Border Karelia in the interwar period (1917-1939). I will look at how lived religion practices were affected by the societal changes following Finnish independence and the Finnicization of the Orthodox Church.
