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M.Ed., Doctoral Student of the Department of Education, University of Helsinki. She has written her Master Thesis about values of Finnish Adventist young people. She has got Young Researchers Award of Helsinki University. She is visiting researcher at King’s College, University of London 2003-2004. An article (in print), Journal of Beliefs and Values (2003).

Religious Identity Formation and Capital among Seventh-day Adventists. The main scope of the study lies in the process of transmitting identity between the generations, seeking the factors and conditions that support successful value transmission and thus endorse identity formation and identity capital. The data will be gathered among Finnish Adventists representing heterogeneous cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. As the material of this study is in-depth interviews of Adventist young people and their families in Finland. In addition there is a quantitative material of a group of over hundred of Adventist young people. Comparative material will be gathered from Finnish Adventist young people studying in London. The topic is very timely, since parenting has recently confronted a crisis in modern society. Furthermore it is examined whether social capital can also be transmitted between the Adventist generations and if so, which conditions support that process. The key words of the study are value education, religious identity, intergenerational value transmission and Adventists.