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“The situation in South Africa is complex.” was said by just about everyone who had a speech of any kind during the days of our course in South Africa. The complexity was also often used as an answer to questions. “Well, you know, that’s very complex here.” And those answers that referred to the complexity […]

The theological course Abraham Goes Global is a cooperation between Åbo Akademi University and Stellenbosch University (South Africa) funded by the Finnish National Agency for Education and The Polin Institute 2023-2024 and 2024-2025. The aims are to widen the perception of theology to cross boundaries of religion at both universities, to exchange expertise on contextualised […]

Need time to finalize a book manuscript? Research stint at the Polin Institute for theological research within Åbo Akademi University, Finland The Polin Institute is a growing international center of theological research in Finland. We announce two research stints of maximum six months between the beginning of March 2025 and the end of August 2025 […]

An international conference organized by the Polin Institute of Åbo Akademi University Espoo, Finland, 27th-30th August 2024 Pentecostalism is one of the most dynamic and influential forms of Christianity in contemporary Africa. It has been variously described as a response to modernity, a postmodern phenomenon itself, a revitalization movement, a return to the fundamental theology embodying […]

Need time to finalize a book manuscript? Research stint at the Polin Institute for theological research within Åbo Akademi University, Finland The Polin Institute is a growing international center of theological research in Finland. We announce two research stints of maximum six months between the beginning of September 2024 and the end of February 2025 […]

Religious Heritage and Change in the North Historical, Contemporary and Comparative Perspectives Research conference in Turku/Åbo, 10-11 November 2022   This conference is organized jointly by the research network Religious History of the North (REHN) at Umeå University, and the research project Changing Spaces: Ritual Buildings, Sacred Objects, and Human Sensemaking at the Polin Institute/Åbo Akademi University. The conference […]

The Polin Institute announces a 3-year doctoral scholarship (maximum 36 months) from the research project JESAJA – Isaiah between Judeo-Christian Border Lines. The JESAJA research project is funded by The Julius Polin Ancestors Memorial Fund, which is managed by the Åbo Akademi University Foundation. The doctoral scholarship should begin during the calendar year of 2022.   […]

Religious Heritage and Change in the North Historical, Contemporary and Comparative Perspectives   Research conference in Turku/Åbo, 10-11 November 2022   This conference is organized jointly by the research network Religious History of the North (REHN) at Umeå University, and the research project Changing Spaces: Ritual Buildings, Sacred Objects, and Human Sensemaking at the Polin […]

The first international conference sponsored by the Polin Institute took place at Åbo Akademi University.