Antti Räsänen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6183796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antti Räsänen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antti |
| FAMILY NAME | Räsänen |
| SIGNATURE | RÄSÄNEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3635-3946 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Finnish Lutheran parish pastors’ conceptions of the importance of pedagogical competence in their work
The article examines Finnish Lutheran parish pastors’ conceptions of the importance of pedagogical competence in the pastoral profession at the present and in the future. The data consists of survey material collected electronically in October 2024, to which 237 parish pastors (12% of the parish clergy at the time) across Finland responded. It was a discretionary sample. The parish pastors were asked to estimate how important do they consider ski…
Current debates about (inter-)religious literacy and assessments of the outcomes of religious education
This article addresses two current debates that have generated increasing interest in a number of countries but have rarely been considered together: the debate on religious and interreligious literacy and the debate on the assessment of the outcomes of Religious Education (RE). Against this background, both debates are reviewed and critically discussed in relation to the following questions: 1) What guiding educational ideas are connected to the…
Developing a Research Tool for Investigating Religious Knowledge as Part of Religious Literacy
This article makes international debates on religious literacy as well as forms of assessment in RE related to these debates its starting point by identifying the lack of an empirical basis for the respective discussions. A questionnaire for 15-year-old pupils with a focus on religious knowledge, based on prior studies and tried out in Finland, Germany and Sweden is introduced. The results, although not representative, allow for comparative evalu…
Exploring religiosity and attitudes towards Christians and non-believers among recent Muslim refugees to Finland
Missionaries as Communicators of Foreign Cultures
This article examines the writings of Finnish missionaries: what the missionaries wrote about local people and cultures and how the content of their writings changed during the latter part of the 20th century, which was a period of major political and cultural change in the countries where the missionaries worked. The data consists of 526 writings published in the major Finnish mission journal Suomen Lähetyssanomat during the years 1946-1989. The…
Teenage religion – religiousness among Finnish 8 th and 9 th graders
This article examines religiousness among Finnish 8th and 9th graders. It is explored using the RJT, an instrument developed on the basis of religious judgment theory. The frame of reference processes teenage religiousness and Oser’s theory. The research data are based on a survey in which 617 adolescents from four different localities participated. According to the theory of Religious Judgment five sum variables were made to describe religiousne…
Das Religiöse Urteil und Die Glaubensvorstellungen
Sowohl bei dem Paul- als auch dem Hiob-Dilemma ist der Anteil der zweiten Entwicklungsstufe erstaunlich hoch. Es wurde ja bereits auf das Verantwortungsgefuhl der Finnen auch in bezug auf die Religion hingewiesen. Vielleicht spiegelt sich dadurch einiges von dem im Volke lebendigen Protestantismus wider. Ende 2000 zahlten 85% der Gesamtbevolkerung von Finnland zur evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche (Kirkon tilastollinen vuosikirja 2001, 10). Nach Sc…
Teenage religion – religiousness among Finnish 8 th and 9 th graders
This article examines religiousness among Finnish 8th and 9th graders. It is explored using the RJT, an instrument developed on the basis of religious judgment theory. The frame of reference processes teenage religiousness and Oser’s theory. The research data are based on a survey in which 617 adolescents from four different localities participated. According to the theory of Religious Judgment five sum variables were made to describe religiousne…
Das Religiöse Urteil und Die Glaubensvorstellungen
Sowohl bei dem Paul- als auch dem Hiob-Dilemma ist der Anteil der zweiten Entwicklungsstufe erstaunlich hoch. Es wurde ja bereits auf das Verantwortungsgefuhl der Finnen auch in bezug auf die Religion hingewiesen. Vielleicht spiegelt sich dadurch einiges von dem im Volke lebendigen Protestantismus wider. Ende 2000 zahlten 85% der Gesamtbevolkerung von Finnland zur evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche (Kirkon tilastollinen vuosikirja 2001, 10). Nach Sc…
Teenage religion – religiousness among Finnish 8 th and 9 th graders
This article examines religiousness among Finnish 8th and 9th graders. It is explored using the RJT, an instrument developed on the basis of religious judgment theory. The frame of reference processes teenage religiousness and Oser’s theory. The research data are based on a survey in which 617 adolescents from four different localities participated. According to the theory of Religious Judgment five sum variables were made to describe religiousne…
Missionaries as Communicators of Foreign Cultures
This article examines the writings of Finnish missionaries: what the missionaries wrote about local people and cultures and how the content of their writings changed during the latter part of the 20th century, which was a period of major political and cultural change in the countries where the missionaries worked. The data consists of 526 writings published in the major Finnish mission journal Suomen Lähetyssanomat during the years 1946-1989. The…
Exploring religiosity and attitudes towards Christians and non-believers among recent Muslim refugees to Finland
Current debates about (inter-)religious literacy and assessments of the outcomes of religious education
This article addresses two current debates that have generated increasing interest in a number of countries but have rarely been considered together: the debate on religious and interreligious literacy and the debate on the assessment of the outcomes of Religious Education (RE). Against this background, both debates are reviewed and critically discussed in relation to the following questions: 1) What guiding educational ideas are connected to the…
Developing a Research Tool for Investigating Religious Knowledge as Part of Religious Literacy
This article makes international debates on religious literacy as well as forms of assessment in RE related to these debates its starting point by identifying the lack of an empirical basis for the respective discussions. A questionnaire for 15-year-old pupils with a focus on religious knowledge, based on prior studies and tried out in Finland, Germany and Sweden is introduced. The results, although not representative, allow for comparative evalu…
Finnish Lutheran parish pastors’ conceptions of the importance of pedagogical competence in their work
The article examines Finnish Lutheran parish pastors’ conceptions of the importance of pedagogical competence in the pastoral profession at the present and in the future. The data consists of survey material collected electronically in October 2024, to which 237 parish pastors (12% of the parish clergy at the time) across Finland responded. It was a discretionary sample. The parish pastors were asked to estimate how important do they consider ski…
Religious Education and Schools (6 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Religious education (3 works) · Empirical research (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Literacy (2 works)