Jere Kyyrö
Biographic Data
| ID | 338386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jere Kyyrö |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jere |
| FAMILY NAME | Kyyrö |
| SIGNATURE | KYYRÖ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turku |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2345-166X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cultural Background Hum: Theorizing Banality through Religion and Occidentalism
In this theoretical article, we examine the concept of banality and its applications within humanities and social sciences, further focusing on two exemplary discussions related to our research: banal religion and banal West. We further discuss the concept of banality in terms of cultural stability and change. The article asks:1) How does banality shape social imaginaries and normative frameworks?2) How does banality function as a quiet mechanism…
Ukraina, Suomi ja länsi: Media yhteisöjen ja niiden rajojen rakentajana
Ukrainan sodan uutisointi tekee näkyväksi sen, kuinka media rakentaa ja ylläpitää kuviteltuja yhteisöjä sekä geopoliittisia rajoja. Sodan aikana journalismi ei pelkästään selitä tapahtumia, vaan uusintaa moraalisia asetelmia, yleistyksiä ja kielenkäyttötapoja, jotka vahvistavat ”meidän” ja ”heidän” rajoja sekä mobilisoivat yleisöjä. Erityisesti ”länsi” näyttäytyy uutisoinnissa sumeana mutta voimakkaana toimijana, jota käytetään sekä poliittisena …
Lännen rajoilla: Eksistentiaalinen uhka Ukrainan sodan uutisoinnissa Suomessa
Artikkeli käsittelee termin eksistentiaalinen uhka käyttöä Ukrainan sotaa koskevassa uutisoinnissa Helsingin Sanomissa, Iltalehdessä ja Ylen Uutisissa vuosina 2022‒2025. Eksistentiaalinen uhka viittaa tilanteisiin, joissa yhteisön tai valtion olemassaolo vaarantuu. Sen käsittely kytkeytyy turvallisuustutkimuksen realistisiin ja kriittisiin suuntauksiin sekä ontologisen turvallisuuden käsitteeseen. Artikkelin teoreettisessa viitekehyksessä käsitel…
Laughing at death rituals: Performances of (in)sincerity in American situation comedies
This article analyses depictions of death in popular American sitcoms utilising concepts from performance theory. The chosen shows were How I Met Your Mother, Modern Family, New Girl, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Sitcoms’ death situations imitate and comment on the ideals and norms of real-life social performances. Through content analysis and close reading, we found that storylines about death emphasise comedy and social connection within death ritua…
Christian nationalism divided: Exploring the transferability of an American concept to a secularized Nordic multi-party democracy
Christian nationalism (CN) has emerged as a significant concept in discussions concerning politics and religion in the United States. While the relevance of the concept has been much discussed in American sociology of religion, its applicability to other contexts remains unexplored. We aim to address this gap by examining the transferability of CN to European contexts. Using a representative survey from Finland, we refine the measurement proposed…
Embedded or Embattled: Constructing Legitimate Religion in Finnish Political Party Platforms
At the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, Finland—like many other European countries—finds itself in a paradoxical moment when it comes to religion. On the one hand, there is an undeniable decline of all indicators of individual religiosity. On the other hand, increasing worldview diversity calls into question many taken-for-granted ideas and practices regarding the place of religion in Finnish society. Religion becomes more visible in…
The Cult of Greta Thunberg: "De-legitimating Climate Activism with "Religion
Contemporary climate activism has often been called a "religion" or a "cult." We investigate what is done with climate religion discourse (CRD), by whom, and to what ends. Our case study concerns Finland, one country out of many where forms of climate activism are regularly dismissed by equating them with "irrational" religion. We find that political parties and newspaper columnists use terms and phrases such as "millenarianism," "prophet," "Mess…
Out of many modes and motivations: Ritualisation in Border Karelian Orthodox Christian feast and processions
This article explores a sequence of events, a combination of Orthodox Christian village and chapel festivals, associated processions and a cross-border procession, through the theoretical concept of ritualisation. The sequence of events takes place annually in the Finnish villages of Saarivaara and Hoilola, the Pörtsämö wilderness cemetery and the former Finnish municipality of Korpiselkä, located today in Russia; it attracts participants with re…
Mannerheim in the Twenty-First Century: Finnish National Symbol, Aesthetics, and Media Strategies
This article analyses media discussions around three film projects of the 2000s and 2010s, interpreting the figure of field marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim from the point of view of Bourdieuan social aesthetics and civil religion. Mannerheim is a central part of Finnish civil religious concentration of symbols—that is symbols associated to the Finnish nation. This article analyses different actors’ strategies of classification, legitimisation, de-leg…
Sacredness as a Resource, Sacralization as a Strategy: Field Marshal Mannerheim and Finnish Fields of Media and Cultural Production
This article re-thinks the concept of sacred in terms of sacralization, or as strategic action in a certain field of possibilities, and as sacredness, or as a resource to be appropriated in strategic action, aiming to accumulate or exchange specific capitals. Secondly, it looks into national symbols and their uses in the field of cultural production, especially the media in terms of sacralization and sacredness. Its Empirical data consists of med…
Philip A. Mellor and Chris Shilling: Sociology of the Sacred: Religion, Embodiment and Social Change
The Cult of Greta Thunberg: "De-legitimating Climate Activism with "Religion
Contemporary climate activism has often been called a "religion" or a "cult." We investigate what is done with climate religion discourse (CRD), by whom, and to what ends. Our case study concerns Finland, one country out of many where forms of climate activism are regularly dismissed by equating them with "irrational" religion. We find that political parties and newspaper columnists use terms and phrases such as "millenarianism," "prophet," "Mess…
Mannerheim in the Twenty-First Century: Finnish National Symbol, Aesthetics, and Media Strategies
This article analyses media discussions around three film projects of the 2000s and 2010s, interpreting the figure of field marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim from the point of view of Bourdieuan social aesthetics and civil religion. Mannerheim is a central part of Finnish civil religious concentration of symbols—that is symbols associated to the Finnish nation. This article analyses different actors’ strategies of classification, legitimisation, de-leg…
Sacredness as a Resource, Sacralization as a Strategy: Field Marshal Mannerheim and Finnish Fields of Media and Cultural Production
This article re-thinks the concept of sacred in terms of sacralization, or as strategic action in a certain field of possibilities, and as sacredness, or as a resource to be appropriated in strategic action, aiming to accumulate or exchange specific capitals. Secondly, it looks into national symbols and their uses in the field of cultural production, especially the media in terms of sacralization and sacredness. Its Empirical data consists of med…
Philip A. Mellor and Chris Shilling: Sociology of the Sacred: Religion, Embodiment and Social Change
Out of many modes and motivations: Ritualisation in Border Karelian Orthodox Christian feast and processions
This article explores a sequence of events, a combination of Orthodox Christian village and chapel festivals, associated processions and a cross-border procession, through the theoretical concept of ritualisation. The sequence of events takes place annually in the Finnish villages of Saarivaara and Hoilola, the Pörtsämö wilderness cemetery and the former Finnish municipality of Korpiselkä, located today in Russia; it attracts participants with re…
The Cult of Greta Thunberg: "De-legitimating Climate Activism with "Religion
Contemporary climate activism has often been called a "religion" or a "cult." We investigate what is done with climate religion discourse (CRD), by whom, and to what ends. Our case study concerns Finland, one country out of many where forms of climate activism are regularly dismissed by equating them with "irrational" religion. We find that political parties and newspaper columnists use terms and phrases such as "millenarianism," "prophet," "Mess…
Cultural Background Hum: Theorizing Banality through Religion and Occidentalism
In this theoretical article, we examine the concept of banality and its applications within humanities and social sciences, further focusing on two exemplary discussions related to our research: banal religion and banal West. We further discuss the concept of banality in terms of cultural stability and change. The article asks:1) How does banality shape social imaginaries and normative frameworks?2) How does banality function as a quiet mechanism…
Ukraina, Suomi ja länsi: Media yhteisöjen ja niiden rajojen rakentajana
Ukrainan sodan uutisointi tekee näkyväksi sen, kuinka media rakentaa ja ylläpitää kuviteltuja yhteisöjä sekä geopoliittisia rajoja. Sodan aikana journalismi ei pelkästään selitä tapahtumia, vaan uusintaa moraalisia asetelmia, yleistyksiä ja kielenkäyttötapoja, jotka vahvistavat ”meidän” ja ”heidän” rajoja sekä mobilisoivat yleisöjä. Erityisesti ”länsi” näyttäytyy uutisoinnissa sumeana mutta voimakkaana toimijana, jota käytetään sekä poliittisena …
Lännen rajoilla: Eksistentiaalinen uhka Ukrainan sodan uutisoinnissa Suomessa
Artikkeli käsittelee termin eksistentiaalinen uhka käyttöä Ukrainan sotaa koskevassa uutisoinnissa Helsingin Sanomissa, Iltalehdessä ja Ylen Uutisissa vuosina 2022‒2025. Eksistentiaalinen uhka viittaa tilanteisiin, joissa yhteisön tai valtion olemassaolo vaarantuu. Sen käsittely kytkeytyy turvallisuustutkimuksen realistisiin ja kriittisiin suuntauksiin sekä ontologisen turvallisuuden käsitteeseen. Artikkelin teoreettisessa viitekehyksessä käsitel…
Laughing at death rituals: Performances of (in)sincerity in American situation comedies
This article analyses depictions of death in popular American sitcoms utilising concepts from performance theory. The chosen shows were How I Met Your Mother, Modern Family, New Girl, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Sitcoms’ death situations imitate and comment on the ideals and norms of real-life social performances. Through content analysis and close reading, we found that storylines about death emphasise comedy and social connection within death ritua…
Christian nationalism divided: Exploring the transferability of an American concept to a secularized Nordic multi-party democracy
Christian nationalism (CN) has emerged as a significant concept in discussions concerning politics and religion in the United States. While the relevance of the concept has been much discussed in American sociology of religion, its applicability to other contexts remains unexplored. We aim to address this gap by examining the transferability of CN to European contexts. Using a representative survey from Finland, we refine the measurement proposed…
Embedded or Embattled: Constructing Legitimate Religion in Finnish Political Party Platforms
At the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, Finland—like many other European countries—finds itself in a paradoxical moment when it comes to religion. On the one hand, there is an undeniable decline of all indicators of individual religiosity. On the other hand, increasing worldview diversity calls into question many taken-for-granted ideas and practices regarding the place of religion in Finnish society. Religion becomes more visible in…
Religion and Society Interactions (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Religious Tourism and Spaces (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Context (archaeology) (2 works) · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration (2 works)