Noaidevuohta and Saami Indigenous Religion

Noaidevuohta and Saami Indigenous Religion in Texts Written before 1900. The historian of religions Konsta Kaikkonen discusses his work with critical reading of older texts on Saami indigenous religion. How were idea-historical developments reflected in texts written about the Saami and their traditional rituals? When did the noaidi become a “shaman” in written texts, and what was behind this development? These are among the questions discussed in the presentation, largely based on Kaikkonen’s doctoral thesis from 2020. Seatticket required.