Kim B. Ostman
KIM B. ÖSTMAN is a doctoral student of comparative religion at !bo Akademi University, Finland, focusing on the relationship between Mormonism and Finnish society. He is a doctoral student in the field of radio-frequency microelectronics, works as a researcher at Tampere University of Technology, Finland, and is one of the founders of the European Mormon Studies Association (EMSA). He presented the original version of this paper at the Joseph Smith and Mormonism Symposium, University of Turku, Finland, February 2, 2006. An expanded version was published as “Mormonismin tutkimus Suomessa: Kirjallisuutta, tutkimusideoita ja lähteitä” in the online Finnish comparative religion journal Uskonnontutkija [Researcher of Religion] 1, no. 2 (2006), http://www. uskonnontutkija.fi. The present article is a further updated version.