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IMC 2019: Sessions

Session 1152: Trading Strategies and Religious Diversity in the Multi-Ethnic North

Wednesday 3 July 2019, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:'Creating the New North' Research Programme, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges Arktiske Universitet
Organiser:Sigrun Høgetveit Berg, Institutt for historie og religionsvitenskap, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges Arktiske Universitetet
Moderator/Chair:Richard Holt, Institutt for historie og religionsvitenskap, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges Arktiske Universitetet
Paper 1152-aThe Strategies of the Sámi in the Trading Networks of Northern Fennoscandia
(Language: English)
Lars Ivar Hansen, Institutt for historie og religionsvitenskap, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges Arktiske Universitetet
Index terms: Economics - Rural, Economics - Trade, Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History
Paper 1152-b'The long drum-time': Traces of Medieval Indigenous Religious Practices around the Arctic
(Language: English)
Dikka Storm, Tromsø Museum / Universitetsmuseet, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges Arktiske Universitetet
Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Geography and Settlement Studies, Pagan Religions, Religious Life
Paper 1152-cReligious Travels in Northern Fennoscandia in the Shadow of St Olaf
(Language: English)
Sigrun Høgetveit Berg, Institutt for historie og religionsvitenskap, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges Arktiske Universitetet
Index terms: Hagiography, Lay Piety, Pagan Religions, Religious Life
Abstract

Northern Fennoscandia was a multi-ethnic area with no fixed borders. The surrounding states (Norway, Sweden, and Muscovy) promoted, more or less ardently, their cultural and religious interests, and negotiated, sometimes in dialogue sometimes in conflict, taxation, trade privileges, and jurisdiction. The indigenous Sámi population was not fully integrated into either these states or the Church and maintained their own religious practices and culture. At the same time they developed their own trading and tax-avoidance strategies. Meanwhile, Christians found inspiration for their faith in their travels to shrines in the North.