Saami Religion

• Other Authors: Ahlbäck, Tore
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi 1987
• Subjects: religion > congresses; sami (European people) > religion; shamanism; shamans; christianity; Sweden; Korhonen; Outakoski; inuit; saami; sami
• Online Access: http://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/134157

CARL-MARTIN EDSMAN Opening Address at the Symposium on Saami religion arranged by the Donner Institute 16-18 August 1984 ROLF KJELLSTRÖM On the continuity of old Saami religion PHEBE FJELLSTRÖM Cultural- and traditional-ecological perspectives in Saami religion OLAVI KORHONEN Einige Termini der lappischen Mythologie im sprachgeographischen Licht INGER ZACHRISSON Sjiele sacrifices, Odin treasures and Saami graves? OLOF PETTERSSON Old Nordic and Christian elements in Saami ideas about the realm of the dead SIV NORLANDER-UNSGAARD On time-reckoning in old Saami culture ØRNULV VORREN Sacrificial sites, types and function ÅKE HULTKRANTZ On beliefs in non-shamanic guardian spirits among the Saamis JUHA Y. PENTIKÄINEN The Saami shamanic drum in Rome BO LÖNNQVIST Schamanentrachten in Sibirien BO LUNDMARK Rijkuo-Maja and Silbo-Gåmmoe - towards the question of female shamanism in the Saami area CARL F. HALLENCREUTZ Lars Levi Laestadius' attitude to Saami religion HÅKAN RYDVING Shamanistic and postshamanistic terminologies in Saami (Lappish) NILLA OUTAKOSKI Čuorvvot Bo SOMMARSTRÖM Ethnoastronomical perspectives on Saami religion LASSI SARESSALO The threat from without MAGDALENA TATAR Nordic influence on Saami folk belief: the "Buttercat" (Smørkatt) TATJANA LUKJANTSCHENKO Die Samen in der UdSSR THOMAS MCELWAIN A comparison of some gigantic characters in Iroquois and Saami traditions DANIEL MERKUR Contrary to nature: Inuit conceptions of witchcraft The aim of the current volume is to present recent advances in the research on Saami culture and religion. Thus, these articles strive to answer the call for an international coordination of all forces in order to build a solid foundation for research in the field, aired by the pioneering scholar Ernst Manker a few decades earlier. The volume contains several articles dealing with pre-Christian Saami religion. The confrontations between Saami religion and Christianity are also dealt with in different ways by several of the authors. Finally, contemporary perspectives on the question are addressed in articles dealing with the role and status of the Saami people as an ethnic minority in the Nordic countries today.