VERKOSTO/ NETWORK

The research network Sacred in secular societies researches religious aspects of linguistic culture. Our main foci are the religiously motivated beliefs that are associated with language in secular western nation-states and their transformation for instance into language policies, principally in Finland, but also the religious discourse and language as means of constructing and maintaining human communities. The network is funded by the Future Fund of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Helsinki from January to December 2018.