Course literature, autumn term 2011

RELV208/308 - Sami religion, 15 ECTS credits.

Literature marked with a * are books, the rest is found in a compendium which can be bought at the Studia bookstore.

Introduction

* Hætta, Odd Mathis. (1993) 2008. The Sami: An Arctic Indigenous People. Karasjok: Davvi Girji. ISBN 978-82-7374-682-5. 88 p.

* Lehtola, Veli-Pekka. 2010. The Sámi People: Traditions in Transition. Inari: Puntsi. ISBN 978-952-5343-11-3. 139 pp.

Indigenous Sami religion and the process of religious change

Bäckman, Louise & Åke Hultkrantz. 1978. Studies in Lapp Shamanism (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion 16). Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International. 128 pp.

* Rydving, Håkan. (1993) 2004. The End of Drum-Time: Religious Change among the Lule Saami, 1670s–1740s (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Historia Religionum 12). Uppsala: Uppsala University Library. 3^rd ed. ISBN 91-554-3580-7. 213 pp.

* Rydving, Håkan. 2010. Tracing Sami Traditions: In Search of the Indigenous Religion among the Western Sami during the 17th and 18th Centuries (The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, B 135). Oslo: Novus forlag. ISBN 978-82-7099-543-1. 171 pp.

* Storå, Nils. 1971. Burial Customs of the Skolt Lapps (Folklore Fellows Communications 210). Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica. ISSN 0014-5815: 210. 323 pp.

The Laestadian revivalist movement and Sami religion today

Drivenes, Einar-Arne. 1992. Religion, church and ethnic minorities in Norway, 1850–1940. Religion, State and Ethnic Groups (Comparative Studies on Governments and Non-Dominant Ethnic Groups in Europe, 1850–1940, 2): 205–228. Ed. D. A. Kerr. Hants: Dartmouth.

Durrah Scheffy, Zoë-Hateehc. 2004. Sámi religion in museums and artistry. Creating Diversities: Folklore, Religion and the Politics of Heritage (Studia Fennica. Folkloristica 14): 225–259. [Red.] A.-L. Siikala & B. Klein & S. R. Mathisen. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society.

Mathisen, Stein R. 2000. “Gann” against thieves: a Sami noaidi in contemporary media narratives. Traditions of Belief in Everyday Life (Religionsvetenskapliga skrifter 51): 57–80. Eds. T. Hovi & A. Puuronen. Åbo: Åbo Akademi.

Minde, Henry. 1998. Constructing ‘Laestadianism’: a case for Sami survival? Acta Borealia 15: 5–25.