[PDF] The Ancient Religion And Folk Beliefs Of The Sami eBook

Author : Odd Mathis Hætta
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Sami (European people)
ISBN : 9788277840048

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Kult - Sage - Sami - Volkskunde.

Author : Thomas Hilder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,84 MB
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 0810888963

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The Sámi are Europe’s only recognized indigenous people living across regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Russian Kola peninsula. The subjects of a history of Christianization, land dispossession, and cultural assimilation, the Sámi have through their self-organization since World War II worked towards Sámi political self-determination across the Nordic states and helped forge a global indigenous community. Accompanying this process was the emergence of a Sámi music scene, in which the revival of the distinct and formerly suppressed unaccompanied vocal tradition of joik was central. Through joiking with instrumental accompaniment, incorporating joik into forms of popular music, performing on stage and releasing recordings, Sámi musicians have played a key role in articulating a Sámi identity, strengthening Sámi languages, and reviving a nature-based cosmology. Thomas Hilder offers the first book-length study of this diverse and dynamic music scene and its intersection with the politics of indigeneity. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Hilder provides portraits of numerous Sámi musicians, studies the significance of Sámi festivals, analyzes the emergence of a Sámi recording industry, and examines musical projects and cultural institutions that have sought to strengthen the transmission of Sámi music. Through his engaging narrative, Hilder discusses a wide range of issues—revival, sovereignty, time, environment, repatriation and cosmopolitanism—to highlight the myriad ways in which Sámi musical performance helps shape notions of national belonging, transnational activism, and processes of democracy in the Nordic peninsula. Sámi Musical Performance and the Politics of Indigeneity in Northern Europe will not only appeal to enthusiasts of Nordic music, but, by drawing on current interdisciplinary debates, will also speak to a wider audience interested in the interplay of music and politics. Unearthing the challenges, contradictions and potentials presented by international indigenous politics, Hilder demonstrates the significance of this unique musical scene for the wider cultural and political transformations in twenty-first-century Europe and global modernity.

Author : Trude A. Fonneland
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,22 MB
Release : 2021-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3039437275

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“Sámi Religion: Religious Identities, Practices, and Dynamics” explores expressions of ‘’Sámi religion’’ in contemporary cultures, the role it plays in identity politics and heritagization processes, and the ways the past and present are entangled. In recent years, attitudes towards ‘’Sámi religion’’ have changed both within religious, cultural, political, and educational contexts as a consequence of what can be called the ‘’Indigenous turn’’. Contemporary, indigenous religion is approached as a something that adds value by a range of diverse actors and for a variety of reasons. In this Special Issue, we take account of emic categories and connections, focusing on which notions of ‘’Sámi religion’’ are used today by religious entrepreneurs and others who share and promote these types of spiritual beliefs, and how Sámi religion is taking shape on a plenitude of arenas in contemporary society.

Author : Mardoeke Boekraad
Publisher : Moderne ¿ Kulturen ¿ Relationen
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : 9783631665985

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The book offers a detailed overview on traditional indigenous Sámi myths, beliefs and rituals. Based on empirical findings and discussion, the author inquires how they are related to an ecologically sustainable use of the natural environment. Ecological sustainability was a key basic value and was linked to a belief in spirits and divinities.

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811336873

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This book explores varieties of spiritual movements and alternative experiments for the generation of beauty, dignity and dialogue in a world where the rise of the religious in politics and the public sphere is often accompanied by violence. It examines how spirituality can contribute to human development, social transformations and planetary realizations, urging us to treat each other, and our planet, with evolutionary care and respect. Trans-disciplinary and trans-paradigmatic to its very core, this text opens new pathways of practical spirituality and humanistic action for both scholarship and discourse and offers an invaluable companion for scholars across religious studies, cultural studies and development studies.

Author : H. Davidson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 39,41 MB
Release : 1990-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0141941502

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Surveys the pre-Christian beliefs of the Scandinavian and Germanic peoples. Provides an introduction to this subject, giving basic outlines to the sagas and stories, and helps identify the charachter traits of not only the well known but also the lesser gods of the age.

Author : Jay Griffiths
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1619024039

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While traveling the world in order to write her award winning book Wild, Jay Griffiths became increasingly aware of the huge differences in how childhood is experienced in various cultures. One central riddle, in particular captured her imagination: why are so many children in Euro–American cultures unhappy – and why is it that children in traditional cultures seem happier? In A Country Called Childhood, Griffiths seeks to discover why we deny our children the freedoms of space, time and the natural world. Visiting communities as far apart as West Papua and the Arctic as well as the UK, and delving into history, philosophy, language and literature, she explores how children's affinity for nature is an essential and universal element of childhood. It is a journey deep into the heart of what it means to be a child, and it is central to all our experiences, young and old.

Author : Catharina Raudvere
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 18,84 MB
Release : 2012-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 918712131X

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Written by distinguished scholars from multiple perspectives, this account widens the interpretative scope on religious life among the pre-Christian Scandinavian people. The religion of the Viking Age is conventionally identified through its mythology: the ambiguous character Odin, the forceful Thor, and the end of the world approaching in Ragnarök. However, pre-Christian religion consisted of so much more than mythic imagery and legends and has long lingered in folk tradition. Exploring the religion of the North through an interdisciplinary approach, the book sheds new light on a number of topics, including rituals, gender relations, social hierarchies, and interregional contacts between the Nordic tradition and the Sami and Finnish regions.