The article explores recent approaches to historical analysis of discourse that have been
developed in disciplines such as the sociology of knowledge and historical epistemology …

My interest in Christian metal started back in early 2004 after having received my Master's
degree at the Department of Comparative Religion at Åbo Akademi University in Turku …

Turkish Metal journeys deep into the heart of the Turkish heavy metal scene, uncovering the
emergence, evolution, and especially the social implications of this controversial musical …

The focus of this article is on the influence of heathenism on popular music, specifically on
Black Metal and Neofolk. These two genres, or more correctly scenes, are converging …

During the past decade, an increasing number of scholars have started to highlight the
usefulness of discourse analytical approaches in the study of religion. This article argues …

From the creative fantasy of musicians to the fearful imaginations of concerned parents and
fundamentalist crusaders, Metal music has frequently been linked to the occult. It is …

This chapter begins with a presentation of the particular features of the Nordic media
systems and their transformations since 1980. The following analyzes three forms of …

Sociology destabilizes the obvious, including the categories of the religious and the secular
and what we think obvious about secularity (the condition of being secular), secularization …