IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1112: A New Credo in the North: Mission and Conversion in Northern Scandinavia
Wednesday 13 July 2011, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Erzbistum Paderborn / Creating the New North - Manifestations of Central Power in the North, 500-1800 |
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| Organiser: | Lars Ivar Hansen, Institutt for historie og religionsvitenskap, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges Arktiske Universitetet |
| Moderator/Chair: | Arnold Otto, Erzbischöfliches Generalvikariat Erzbistumsarchiv, Paderborn |
| Paper 1112-a | The Sámi between Two Churches and Two Legal Systems (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life |
| Paper 1112-b | Christianizing the Far North: The 18th-Century Sámi Mission and Its Local Responses (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life |
| Paper 1112-c | Missionaries, Local Knowledge, and State Consolidation in the North (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The Conversion of Europe is widely seen as an entirely medieval phenomenon coming to a conclusion with the mission in the Baltic region at some time in the high or late Middle Ages. Nevertheless, the last stages of this process went on even in early modern times and in the mission movement coming from the west Lutheran reverends took over the work of their Catholic predecessors. The Russian Orthodox attempts of missionary work in Northern Scandinavia are known even less hitherto. This session seeks to bring the Conversion of the midnight lands as a process between East and West, Middle Ages and Early Modern times to the light of the midnight sun. |