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Jouni Tilli
Jouni Tilli received his PhD in 2012 from the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä (Finland). His dissertation The Continuation War as a Metanoic Moment. A Burkean Reading of Lutheran Hierocratic Rhetoric won the Best Dissertation Award 2013 from Jyväskylä University. Tilli’s work includes publications on Politics of History and Finnish History.
The Continuation War 1941-1944 as a Metanoic Moment
The study explores an aspect of Finland in World War II that has received little attention. The research examines how Lutheran priests contributed rhetorically to the war effort against the Soviet Union in the Continuation War 1941-1944. The war was emplotted using six dramatic analogies: apocalypse, holy war & crusade, election & mission, jeremiad, the war within, obedience and mortification.