University of Helsinki - A Leading European University

Students 2007–2011

 

Funding from the Ministry of Education

JAAKKO ANTILA, HY
"Relations between the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and the Finnish Centre Party 1966-1979"
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SUSANNA ASIKAINEN, HY
"Jesus the Man: Constructions of the Masculinity of Jesus in Early Christian Writings"
Detailed presentation

PATRIK HAGMAN, ÅA
"Body, Soul and Spirit in the Mystical Theology of St. Isaac of Nineveh"
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EIJA HANHIMÄKI, HY
"Educators' Moral Roles and Voices in Urban Schools"
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VILLE HASSINEN, UEF
"Salvation in the Dialogue between the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and the Russian Orthodox Church from 1974 to 1986"
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HANNE JANHONEN, UEF
"The Meaning of the Word diakonos in the New Testament "
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ELISA JÄRNEFELT, HY
"Cognitive Perspective to Everyday Beliefs concerning Nature"
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ILMARI KARIMIES, HY
"The Relationship of the Ontological and Cognitive Aspects of Faith in Martin Luther's Theology"
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HARRI KOSKELA, UEF
"WHY AND WHAT FOR, GOD? The Significance of the Loss of a Child for Parents’ Spirituality"
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HELENA KUPARI, HY
"Religious practice, temporality and memory. The lived and remembered religion of Orthodox Karelian women"
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ANTTI LAINE, HY
"The Political Criticism of the World Council of Churches: The Programme to Combat Racism and its critique 1968-1974"
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MARKETTA LILJESTRÖM, HY
"The Syrohexapla of 1 Samuel - Its Character as a Hexaplaric Witness and Relation to the Other Syriac Versions"
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VESA OLLILAINEN, ÅA
"Luke, Jesus and the Prodigal Son"

TEEMU RATINEN, UEF
"Sexual Shame and Spirituality "
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INKERI RISSANEN, HY
"Religious education of Islam: what happens in the classroom?"
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AIJA SAILAMÄKI , UEF
"The King of Glory - Soteriology of the Golgotha Icon"
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KAROLIINA SCAUMAN, ÅA
"The Beauty of God. Theological Aesthetics of Symeon the New Theologian"
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MARI STENLUND, HY
"The Psychotic Individual's Freedom of Belief, Opinion and Thought"
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HANNE-MAARIA RENTOLA, HY
"Human Being and Stem Cell Therapies -Ethical Issues in the Clinical Applications of Stem Cell Research"
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NANNA ROSENGÅRD, ÅA
"The Messiah and the Zaddiq of Chabad in History and its Interpretation in Present Time"
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MARIA TAKALA-ROSZCZENKO, JoY
"The “Latin” within the “Greek”: the Evolution of the Ruthenian Eastern-rite Liturgical Tradition in the 16 th – 18 th centuries"
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RIIKKA UUKSULAINEN, HY
"Mothering rituals: A case study on low caste communities in Calcutta"
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LOTTA VALVE , ÅA
"Ideal figures in the book of Malachi"
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AKU VISALA, HY
"Religion, Naturalism and Scientific Explanations - Philosophical Analysis of the Cognitive Science of Religion "
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SAMI YLI-KARJANMAA, ÅA
"Reincarnation in Philo"
Detailed presentation

Funding from University of Helsinki (church history)

JENNI KRAPU
"Ecumenist E. G. Gulin 1893-1975"
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SUVI KYRÖ
"The Labour Movement in Christian Literature"
 Detailed presentation

PIIA LATVALA
"Light to the East? Finnish Lutheran Mission and the Soviet Union 1967-1973"
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JUHA MERILÄINEN
"The Foreign Aid Received by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland for Reconstruction 1945-1948"
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Funding from University of Helsinki (biblical studies)

RISTO AUVINEN
"The Valentinians and Philo"
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MINNA HEIMOLA
"Christian Identity and Social Conflict in the Gospel of Philip"
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PÄIVI VÄHÄKANGAS
"Rejection and reception of philosophy in the Letter of Eugnostos and Pseudo-
Clementine Recognitiones"
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Funding from University of Helsinki (systematic theology)

HARRI MERONEN, HY
"Paul Ricoeur’s Biblical Hermeneutics. His Readings and Explicit Interpretations of the Bible."
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TERHI TÖRMÄ, HY
"Man is reading a story and the story is reading the man: Imagination in Paul Ricoeur’s narrative theory and in theology of bibliodrama."
Detailed presentation

 

Funding from the Church Research Institute

TIINA IKONEN, HY
"International Diaconia in the Church Administration"
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Funding from other sources

MILLA BERGSTRÖM, HY
"The Holy See and the Question of Nationalism in Upper Silesia, Posen and Galicia, 1922-1939"
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MALENA BJÖRKGREN, ÅA
"Äktenskap under förändring. Våld i parrelationen som moraliskt och samhälleligt problem. En begreppslig undersökning"
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MIKKO HEIMOLA, HY
"Ritual groups as complex adaptive systems: Costly signaling theory and the case of Finnish revival movements"
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MIRA-IRANA HELIMÄKI, HY
"The Mystery of the Concept of the Nonsubstantial God"
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HETA HURSKAINEN, UEF
"Social Responsibility in the Bilateral Dialogue Between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Finnish Evangelical-Lutheran Church 1970-2005"
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KALLE HILTUNEN, HY
"From Aristotle to Plato – Transformation in the Soul’s Operation between Natural State and Unio Mystica According to St. John of the Cross"
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MARIA KLINGENBERG, HY
"Religious dimensions of ethno-linguistic identity: A study on young
Swedish-speaking Finns"
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SARA KOSKI, HY
"The upbringing of girls in Sweden in the 18th and 19th centuries"
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SANNA LEHTINEN, HY
"Diakoniatyö projektiyhteiskunnan verkostoissa"
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JUSSI KOIVISTO, HY
"Therapeutic Hope in Martin Luther's Theology"
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LAURA-ELINA KOIVISTO, HY
"The concept and moral status of human embryo in stem cell research"
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ROPE KOJONEN, HY
"Does the order of nature reveal an intelligent designer? An analysis of the intelligent design discussion"
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ALEKSI KUOKKANEN, HY
"Constructing Ethical Patterns for Globalization"
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JASON LEPOJÄRVI , HY
"C. S. Lewis and John Paul II on Love. A Dialogue"
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PERTTU NIKANDER, HY
"Jewish-Christian Two Ways Teaching and its Reception in the Didache"
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LEENA PAINTOLA, UEF
"Does the market need moral? CSR connec­tions to libertaristic philosophy"
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PANU PIHKALA , HY
"Joseph Sittler and Lutheran Ecotheology"
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JENNI SPÄNNÄRI, HY
"'Prayer, a heritage from generation to generation' The elderly and religion in Finland at the turn of the 21st century"
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SAANA SVÄRD, HY
"Women and Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire"
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RIIKKA TUORI , HY
"Polish-Lithuanian Karaite Religious Poetry Written in Hebrew in Poland-Lithuania during the seventeenth till eighteenth centuries: a Literary Analysis."
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ELISA UUSIMÄKI, HY
"Wisdom and the Torah: 4Q185 and 4Q525 in the Context of Second Temple Wisdom Literature"
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HANNA VANONEN, HY
"The Textual History of the War Texts of Qumran"
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