Activities at The Polin Institute are primarily quality-driven and always externally evaluated. There are currently three time-limited research projects at The Polin Institute. All three projects have received top marks in evaluations by the Research Council of Finland’s international social and cultural science panel.

• Isaiah Between Judeo-Christian Borderlines Find out more →

Led by Antti Laato

• Christian Cultural Memory in the Margins: Vernacular Christian Practices in Finland Find out more →

Led by Marcus Moberg

• Antisemitism Undermining Democracy Find out more →

Led by Mercédesz Czimbalmos

• Religious Realignments and Democratic Resilience: A Comparative Study of Religious Responses to (Geo)Political Crises (RELIDEM) Find out more →

Led by Mika Vähäkangas

Previous research projects

• Changing Spaces: Ritual Buildings, Sacred Objects and Human Sensemaking. Find out more →

Led by Kim Groop

• Boundaries of Jewish Identities in Contemporary Finland 2019–2021 Find out more →

Led by Ruth Illman

• Universalism and Particularism in Abraham’s Family Narrative of Genesis and Its Reception in Jewish and Christian Writings 2018–2020. Find out more →

Led by Antti Laato

• Behind the Scenes – An Interdisciplinary Study of Convictions, Resistance and Hesitancy in a Contemporary Battle for Health” som ingår i helhetsprojektet “VaccAtt” (Research project in vaccine attitudes). Find out more →

Led by Mikael Lindfelt