Matti Kamppinen
Senior Lecturer
matka@utu.fi +358 29 450 2299 +358 40 549 8938 Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku : 368 Please contact by e-mail for appointment. |
Cultural models; risk and uncertainty; cultural ecosystem services; integral thinking; systems thinking and spirituality; philosophy of ethnography.
I work as Senior Lecturer in Study of Religion at the University of Turku. I graduated from Philosophy in 1985, and did my PhD in Study of Religion in 1989, on the topic of folk religion, illness classification and witchcraft in Peruvian Amazon. I started as Senior Lecturer in 1991, but have also worked in various posts, for example, in Methodology of Social Sciences (Department of Philosophy) and Futures Research (Finland Futures Research Centre). Besides teaching and research, I enjoy walking in the woods, gardening and kayaking.
My key expertise is the study of cultural models. I have studied models of illness and witchcraft in the Peruvian Amazon, models of environmental risks and uncertainty, as well as models of ecosystem services in Finland. Recently I have investigated models operative in integral thinking, systems thinking and spirituality. I have also had long-term interest in the role of intentional systems theory (theory of mind) in religious studies, especially ethnography. Currently I am investigating Ken Wilber's integral theory as an example of a model that combines tools of thought from East and West. In addition I am studying nature-based wisdom and spirituality as cultural ecosystem services, and cultural models of time.
I teach the course Introduction to the Study of Cultures, course Values and Ethics, and I am responsible for the BA seminar in Study of Cultures.
- Creating Wisdom Cultures – Integral Coaching as Applied Foresight in Leadership Development (2015)
- Approaching Religion
- Diversity, abundance and brood numbers of waterbirds in relation to habitat properties – PEDS IV, 7.–11.4.2015, Hanko (2015) Arzel C., Rönkä M., Tolvanen H., Kamppinen M., Lehikoinen E.
- Kosteikko- ja vesilintujen lajirunsaus ja parimäärät sekä vesilintujen poikuemäärät maatalousalueen kosteikoilla. Species and pair numbers of waterbirds and waterfowl and brood numbers of waterfowl in agricultural wetlands. (2015)
- Suomen Riista
- Species diversity, abundance and brood numbers of breeding waterbirds in relation to habitat properties in an agricultural watershed (2015)
- Annales Zoologici Fennici
- Systems Thinking, Spirituality and Ken Wilber – Beyond New Age (2015)
- Approaching Religion
- The Only Way to Get Hold of Philosophical Assumptions in CSR Is to Analyze Them (2015)
- Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion
- Environmental technology and regional sustainability - the role of life-based design (2014)
- Technology in Society
- Environmental technology in the sustainable use of agricultural ecosystem services: the relevance of farmers' mental models (2014)
- International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology
- Religion from the viewpoint of tradition ecology – Lauri Honko’s (1932-2002) contribution to comparative religion (2014)
- Temenos
- The role of theory in folkloristics and comparative religion (2014)
- Approaching Religion
- Perinnetieto on osa ympäristötietoa (2013)
- Maaseudun Tulevaisuus
- The Theory of Culture of Folklorist Lauri Honko (1932-2002) – The Ecology of Tradition (2013) Matti Kamppinen, Pekka Hakamies
- Biodiversity trade-offs and globalizing forestry (2012)
- Forest Policy and Economics
- Ecosystem services of fast-growing tree plantation: a case study on integrating social valuations with land-use changes in Uruguay (2012)
- Forest Policy and Economics
- Futura (2012)
- Futura
- How to integrate socio-cultural dimensions into sustainable development : Amazonian case studies (2012) Virtanen Pirjo, Saarinen Sanni, Kamppinen Matti
- Methodological Issues in Religious Studies (2012) Kamppinen Matti
- Uskontotiede (2012) Monitieteinen ympäristöntutkimus Kamppinen Matti
- Ateismi: ihmisen asialla (2011)
- Niin & näin
- Ateismi, sekulaari humanismi ja tiede (2011) Mitä uusateismi tarkoittaa? Matti Kamppinen