Religions around the Arctic

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dc.contributorRydving, Håkan
dc.contributorKaikkonen, Konsta
dc.date2022-04-04T14:53:25Z
dc.date2022-04-04T14:53:25Z
dc.date2022
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-25T13:33:31Z
dc.descriptionAt a seminar at the University of Bergen, Norway, in September 2018, scholars from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden presented and discussed various forms of source criticism and comparison with examples from the Arctic and Sub-Arctic regions of Eurasia and North America. A selection of the papers read at the seminar are published in this volume. Each of the chapters in the first part compares local phenomena from two or more cultural contexts: a Swedish, a Karelian, an Estonian and an Irish place name that include words for hostage (Stefan Olsson), Old Icelandic and Sami ancestor mountains (Eldar Heide), and Finno-Karelian bear incantations and Ob-Ugrian bear songs (Vesa Matteo Piludu). The second part gives examples of different forms of source criticism in the analysis of indigenous Sami religion. The functions of a newly found ritual drum is discussed in relation to contemporary written sources (Dikka Storm & Trude Fonneland), the court proceedings from a witchcraft trial in 1692 is discussed with the help of Gérard Genette’s category ‘voice’ (Liv Helene Willumsen), and a content analysis of an introduction to indigenous Sami religion shows that the editor added text of his own to the original manuscript (Konsta Kaikkonen). In the third part, the area is widened to other parts of the Arctic. Here, a selection of theoretical perspectives is used to illuminate local empirical material. They give examples of how Native North American bear rituals and sweat bath traditions can be analysed with the help of an ecology of religion model and ritual theories, respectively (Riku Hämäläinen), of how Soviet researchers used the concepts of ‘spirits’ and ‘gods’ when they analysed the world view of the Nganasan (Olle Sundström), and of how representatives of academia have been instrumental in the ‘finding, claiming, and authorizing’ of Sakha religions (Liudmila Nikanorova). Although the papers only deal with a few of the peoples living in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic regions, the examples of source critical and comparative problems they discuss are of great general relevance.
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dc.imprintStockholm University Press
dc.languageeng
dc.licenseConditionn/a
dc.pages292
dc.placepublicationStockholm
dc.publisherStockholm University Press
dc.publisherStockholm University Press
dc.relationStockholm Studies in Comparative Religion
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dc.seriesnumber9
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dc.subjectindigenous religious traditions
dc.subjectcomparison as method
dc.subjectArctic and Sub-Arctic areas
dc.subjectresearch history
dc.subjectsource criticism
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBG Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge::JBGB Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2A Indo-European languages::2AC Germanic and Scandinavian languages::2ACS Scandinavian languages
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::Y Children’s, Teenage and Educational::YP Educational material::YPJ Educational: Humanities and social sciences, general::YPJN Educational: Religious studies::YPJN9 Educational: Religious studies: Other religions
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAX History of religion
dc.titleReligions around the Arctic

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