Ibruktagandet av Lutherkyrkan i Helsingfors som en sakraliseringspraktik
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ibruktagning, Lutherkyrkan, sakraliseringspraktik, symbolerAbstrakti
The Re-inauguration of the Luther Church Helsinki as an act of Sacralization — This article discusses the re-inauguration of the Luther Church Helsinki in 2016. Since the 1990s, the church – dedicated in the 1930s – has served alternately as a nightclub and a restaurant, before it was restored to its original purpose. The article suggests that the re-inauguration of the church in 2016 can be regarded as an act of sacralization, aimed at re-sacralizing the church building. Referring to scholars such as G. U. Gumbrecht and Karl-Siegbert Rehberg – according to whom symbols and signs that create the presence of something absent are especially important for the creation and legitimation of institutions – the article proposes that the inauguration of the Luther church served to point to the presence of God in the church building, thus sacralizing it.
