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  • Religions around the Arctic

    Source Criticism and Comparisons

    Håkan Rydving, Konsta Kaikkonen (eds.)

    Book 44 in the Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion series.
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    At 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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    Rydving H. & Kaikkonen K. (eds.) 2022. Religions around the Arctic: Source Criticism and Comparisons. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bbu
    Rydving, H. and Kaikkonen, K., 2022. Religions around the Arctic: Source Criticism and Comparisons. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bbu
    Rydving, Hand K Kaikkonen. Religions Around the Arctic: Source Criticism and Comparisons. Stockholm University Press, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bbu
    Rydving, H., & Kaikkonen, K. (2022). Religions around the Arctic: Source Criticism and Comparisons. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bbu
    Rydving, Håkan, and Konsta Kaikkonen. 2022. Religions Around the Arctic: Source Criticism and Comparisons. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bbu




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    Published on March 29, 2022

    Language

    English

    Pages:

    292

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