Christianity and politics

Haapalainen, Anna; Opas, Minna; Räsänen, Marika

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“…Religion and politics would have 'softened' boundaries in Stenbäck's own body of work (cf. Haapalainen, Opas and Räsänen, 2019). What Stenbäck regarded as an 'anti-Christian state' in Finland inspired him to become a parliamentary election candidate for the Finnish Christian League in the early 1970s.…”

Section: Tumultuous Social Body and The Politics To Healmentioning

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Sin embodied: Priest-psychiatrist Asser Stenbäck and the psychosomatic approach to human problems

Hyrkäs

2022

History of the Human Sciences

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Combining theological and medical perspectives is indispensable for the historical study of the interconnections between mind, body, and soul. This article explores these relations through the history of Finnish psychosomatic medicine, and uses published and archival materials to examine the intellectual biography of the Finland-Swedish theologian turned psychiatrist Asser Stenbäck (1913–2006). Stenbäck's career, which evolved from priesthood to psychiatry and politics, reveals a great deal about the tensions between religion and medicine, the spiritual and scientific groups that impinged upon psychosomatic medicine, and ideas on how health and Christian morality were interconnected. The biographical approach is adopted to unearth the values encoded in medical concepts, and through this, to point towards another, underexplored dimension of the health–religion relationship. In addition to their emotional aspect, religious doctrines are intended to organise life and give it meaning. Stenbäck's ideas tied these experiential and normative spheres together by defending an irrationalist substratum of the world in the secular age of medicine. His work illustrates how the inner experience of faith can become both medically and politically purposive. It is worth combining these perspectives in historical research as well in order to better understand how the theological, medical, and political worlds are in dialogue when it comes to human problems.

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Section: Tumultuous Social Body and The Politics To Healmentioning

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Sin embodied: Priest-psychiatrist Asser Stenbäck and the psychosomatic approach to human problems

Hyrkäs

2022

History of the Human Sciences

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Religions – a Janus-Faced Phenomenon in Local Politics

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Stier

2020

ISIT

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Religions can facilitate cohesion, belonging and feelings of safety or can underpin tensions, separatism or terrorism. This has led local, national and international policymakers to use inter-religious councils to overcome local conflicts by facilitating dialogue. Sweden has a growing number of inter-religious councils around the country. This article focuses on the inter-religious council in Midtown. The aim is (1) to describe how politicians, civil servants and religious leaders as participants in the council express their expectations on the Midtown inter-religious council, and (2) to analyse these accounts in the light of ongoing research and European examples of inter-religious dialogue. Data have been collected via interviews and participant observation, and analysed through two critical lenses, one focusing on social cohesion, the other on fears of militant religious extremism. Results show that members of the Midtown council view religions as constituting possible obstacles but mainly as an important asset in a process of developing a cohesive society.

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Christianity and politics

Abstract: The editorial presents the conference "Religion and Politics" arranged by the Centre for the Study of Christian Cultures at the University of Turku in November 2018. Articles 3-7 of the current issue are based on papers presented at the conference.

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Sin embodied: Priest-psychiatrist Asser Stenbäck and the psychosomatic approach to human problems

Sin embodied: Priest-psychiatrist Asser Stenbäck and the psychosomatic approach to human problems

Religions – a Janus-Faced Phenomenon in Local Politics

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