Publications

DISSERTATION

Losing Faith, Finding Reason : Continuity and Change in the Religious Language and Religiopolitical Worldview of Peace Movements in Finland, 1919–1975



A. PEER-REVIEWED SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

2025

“Fidel Castro was at least Jesus to many.” Secularism as Part of the Rational Pacifist Worldview during the Long 1960s. [Original in Finnish]. In Kallinen, Timo & Laitila, Teuvo (toim.) Sekularismi – Maailmankuvat politiikan tuolla puolen. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society. (Diss.), Sekularismit : Uskonnon ja maallisen rajankäyntejä

2024
Transnational Quaker Pacifism and the International Fellowship of Reconciliation. A Qualitative Case Study of Two Network Nodes Connecting Finland to Scandinavia and the Anglo-Saxon World 1919–1961. Peace & Change, 49(3), 242–261. https://doi.org/10.1111/pech.12673 (Diss.)

2023
“Here is ‘true Christianity’”: Peace Movements Contesting Hegemonic Nationalism of the Lutheran Church in Finland 1919–1932. In Nations and Nationalism, 29(4), 1355–1371. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12909 (Diss.)

2022
Ojajärvi, Rony & Huhta, Ilkka (2022). Religion in the Publications of Finnish Peace Defenders 1949–1970. Historiallinen Aikakauskirja, 120(2), [Original in Finnish] 166–179. https://doi.org/10.54331/haik.131355 (Diss.)

2021
For True Patriotism and Internationalism: The Development of Peace Education as Finnish Teachers Organized into the Nordic Teachers’ Peace League in the 1920s. In Kasvatus & Aika, 15(3–4), 99–116. [Original in Finnish], https://doi.org/10.33350/ka.109883

2020
Peace Ecumenism on the Terms of Christian Socialism. The Influence of Mathilda Wrede and Felix Iversen on the Christian International at National and International Levels 1919–1920. [Original in Finnish]. Sini Mikkola & Olli Lampinen-Enqvist (Eds.), Valta ja vastarinta: Suomen kirkkohistoriallisen seuran vuosikirja 2020. Suomen Kirkkohistoriallinen Seura, 43–68.

B. OTHER SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
2025
“World peace will not come true if no one believes in it”: Critique of Realism Discourse in the History of Finnish Peace Work. [Original in Finnish]
Uskonnontutkija 1/2025. ”Maailmanrauhasta ei tule totta, jos kukaan ei siihen usko”: Realismipuheen kritiikki suomalaisen rauhantyön historiassa

2023

…and forgive them their debts: Lending, Foreclosure, and Redemption – From Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year (Michael Hudson). Numen, 70(2–3), 333–335. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685276-20231697 (Book review)

2022
“The Revolution of Christ’s Spirit Against the Spirit of Mammon”: The Mentality of Christian Socialism in Light of the Declarations of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation 1919–1927. [Original in Finnish]. In Henkinen työväki 35. THPTS, 191–214. https://doi.org/10.55286/vv.121595

2021
Reconciliatory Remembrance of Lutheran Churches in Finland and Palestine. Teologinen Aikakauskirja, 126(5), 468–475. [Original in Finnish]

Peace Believers: Finns at the World Youth Festivals (Pia Koivunen). Teologinen Aikakauskirja, 126(3), 274–276. (Book review) [Original in Finnish]

2020
The Spirit of the Comintern? Historical Contexts of the Movement Towards a Christian International 1919–1923. Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte, 33(1), 168–178.