The political use of the cult of St. Tryphon of Pechenga and its potential as a bridgebuilder in the Arctic

• Main Author: Kahla, Elina
• Other Authors: Bogumił, Zuzanna, Yurchuk, Yuliya, Aleksanteri Institute - Finnish Centre for Russian and East European Studies
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: 6160 Other humanities; Translocal memory; Memory and Religion; Arctic Studies; 614 Theology; St Tryphon of Pechenga; Cults of saints; Political theology; Arctic; Norway; Pechenga
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/564405

The book argues that religion is a system of significant meanings that have an impact on other systems and spheres of social life, including cultural memory. Elina Kahla's case studyon the cult of of St. Tryphon of Pechenga shows that, for each of the groups she examines in Russia, Norway and F...