A change in the meaning of work will eventually lead to a change in the way people set goals to their lives. A period of unemployment is, in practice, a break between the previous work experience and the following one but as such it may also function as a time for finding new centers for identifications and offering space for reconstruction of the 'sacred order' of personal and social life of the unemployed. Civil religion in Finland is also very difficult to distinguish from the Lutheranism, because 85 per cent of Finnish people are members of the Finnish Lutheran Church. Strong commitment to the church and honouring the church as an institution are the most important dimensions or features in Finnish religiousness. The strong commitment to the church does not necessary mean commitment to the religious world view, but more likely it is connected to the will of being a good Finnish citizen.
Finnish religiousness is a sort of culture religiousness.
Culture religion is the opposite to the personal religious commitment. The Finnish people are born to Finnish culture and to Lutheran religion and they do not want to change neither of them during their lifetime. Being a member of the church and using its services as a rites of passage at the special occasions of life are part of Finnish culture and part of Finnish culture religion and they do not necessarily tell about persons religious beliefs. In my research I will focus on Civil religion in Finland after the Second World War. Civil religion is an implicit religion but it can be observed through the rituals, symbols and beliefs, which are connected to the nation and its membership in both the public and the private level of the society.