Considering the Default Template: Supreme Overseers of Legality and Religious Complexity in Finland

Pamela Slotte Russo

doi:10.1163/9789004736818

Considering the Default Template: Supreme Overseers of Legality and Religious Complexity in Finland

Pamela Slotte Russo^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The chapter offers a qualitative study of Finnish legal regulation of the religious domain. It focuses on the activities of the Finnish supreme overseers of legality, the Chancellor of Justice of the Government and the Parliamentary Ombudsman, and the way these legal actors – through their performances of legality – engage with, relate to, and handle the domestic religious landscape and individual religiosity and different trends when it comes to religion and non-religion. The empirical material consists of published decisions and annual reports by the supreme overseers of legality during the 21st century.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Changing Religiosities in the Nordic Countries: A Complexity Perspective
Editors	Peter B. Andersen, Peter Gundelach
Publisher	Brill
Chapter	8
Pages	191-208
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	978-90-04-73681-8
ISBN (Print)	978-90-04-73680-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004736818
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 28 Aug 2025
MoE publication type	A3 Part of a book or another research book

Publication series

Name	International Studies in Religion and Society
Publisher	Brill
ISSN (Print)	1573-4293

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CBSR: Complexity and Beyond in Studies of Religiosity in the Nordic Countries
Birkelund Andersen, P. (Principal Investigator), Bodvar, P. K. (Co-Investigator), Jónsdóttir, G. A. (Co-Investigator), Sjöborg, A. (Co-Investigator), Slotte Russo, P. (Co-Investigator) & Tervo-Niemelä, K. (Co-Investigator)
Research Council of Finland
01/01/21 → 30/06/23
Project: Research Council of Finland/Other Research Councils

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Considering the Default Template: Supreme Overseers of Legality and Religious Complexity in Finland. / Slotte Russo, Pamela.
Changing Religiosities in the Nordic Countries: A Complexity Perspective. ed. / Peter B. Andersen; Peter Gundelach. Brill, 2025. p. 191-208 (International Studies in Religion and Society).

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Considering the Default Template: Supreme Overseers of Legality and Religious Complexity in Finland

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