ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This text is based on a series of lectures I have presented in different versions and over several years each spring term at the University of Bergen (Norway) and the University of Oulu (Finland).

NOTE

1. Cf. Backman & Hultkrantz (1978); Pentikainen (1997, 1998); Mebius (2003); Kulonen et al. (2005).

SUGGESTED READING

Backman, L. & A. Hultkrantz 1978. Studies in Lapp Shamanism (Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion 16). Stockholm.

Kulonen, U.-M., I. Seurujarvi-Kari & R. Pulkkinen (eds) 2005. The Saami: A Cultural Encyclopaedia (Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran toimituksia 925). Helsinki.

Manker, E. 1938. Die lappische Zaubertrommel 1 (Acta Lapponica 1). Stockholm.

Pentikäinen, J. 1997. Die Mythologie der Saamen (Ethnologische Beiträge zur Cirkumpolarforschung 3). Berlin.

Pentikäinen, J. 1998. “Die lappische (saamische) Mythologie.” In Das Worterbuch der Mythologie, vol. V11.2, H.-W. Haussig (ed.), 701-827. Stuttgart.

Rydving, II. [1993] 2004. The End of Drum-Time: Religious Change among the Lule Saami, 1670s-1740s (Historia Religionum 12). Uppsala.

Rydving, H. 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, Scries B, 135).

DATES IN THE COMMON ERA

establishing of the Lutitian Union of various Polabian pagan tribes

1695

executed were Sami, most of them men

with E. Isayev and C. Riva, 2007) and Ancient Umbria: State, Culture, and Identity in Central Italy from the Iron Age to the Augustan Era (2000).

Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen teaches at the Vorderasiatische Archäologie und Skandinavisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Her publications include “From ‘Spirituality’ to ‘Religion’ - Ways of Sharing Knowledge of the ‘Other World’” in The Principle of Sharing: Segregation and Construction of Social Identities at the Transition from Foraging to Farming (2010) and “‘Cult’ in the Study of Religion and Archaeology” in Aspects of Ancient Greek Cult: Context, Ritual and Iconography (2009).

Manfred Clauss is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History. His recent publications include the monographs Große Gestalten der Antike (2010) and Der Kaiser und sein wahrer Gott. Der spätantike Streit um die Natur Christi (2010).

Kevin Corrigan is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Director of the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Among his recent books are Evagrius and Gregory: Mind, Soul and Body in the 4th Century (2009) and with John D. Turner, Plato’s Parmenides and its Heritage, Volume I: History and Interpretation from the Old Academy to Later Platonism and Gnosticism; Volume II: Reception in Patristic, Gnostic, and Christian Neoplatonic Texts (2010).

Charlotte Damm is Professor of Archaeology, Department of Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Tromso, Norway. Her publications include “Ethnicity and Collective Identities in the Fennoscandian Stone Age” in Uniting Sea II: Stone Age Societies in the Baltic Sea Region (2010) and “Approaching a Complex Past: Entangled Collective Identities” in Local Societies, Identities and Responses: The Bronze Age in Northern Europe (2012).

Fay Glinister is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, working on fertility and healing sanctuaries for the project Generation to Reproduction (funded by the Wellcome Trust). Her recent publications include “Veiled and Unveiled: Uncovering Roman Influence in the Sanctuaries of Hellenistic Italy” in Votives, Places, Rituals in Etruscan Religion. Studies in Honour of Jean Macintosh Turfa (2008) and Verrius, Festus and Paul: Lexicography, Scholarship and Society (edited with C. Woods, 2007).

Michael Harrington is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. He is author of Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism (2004), and has also published several studies and translations of the Dionysian corpus in its medieval Latin editions. The most recent of these is On the Ecclesiastical

Rasmussen, 2008).

Hakan Rydving is Professor of the History of Religions at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion at the University of Bergen. His recent publications include the monograph Tracing Sami Traditions (2010) and various articles including “Le chamanisme aujourd’hui: constructions et deconstructions d’une illusion scientifique”, Etudes mongoles & siberiennes, centrasiatiques & tibetaines 42 (2011).

Rudolf Simek is Professor of Medieval German and Scandinavian Literature at the University of Bonn. He has published several books on early Germanic religion and culture, as well as a series of translations of Old Norse sagas into German. His publications include Die Wikinger (1998) and Artus-Lexikon (2012).

F. Marco Simon is Professor of Ancient History, University of Zaragoza. Among his recent publications are Die Religion im keltischen Hispanien (1998) and Magical Practice in the Latin West: Papers from the International Conference Held at the University of Zaragoza, 30th Sept.-lst Oct. 2005 (edited with Richard Gordon, 2010).

Leszek Slupecki is Professor of Medieval History and Old Norse Studies at the Institute of History, Rzeszow University. His publications include Slavonic Pagan Sanctuaries (1994) as well as several monographs in Polish.

Jean Macintosh Turfa is Rodney Young Fellow in the Mediterranean Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia. Recent publications include the monograph Divining the Etruscan World: The Brontoscopic Calendar and Religious Practice (2012).

David A. Warburton has degrees in political science and archaeology from the American University in Beirut, the Universität Bern and Paris I Pantheon- Sorbonne. Currently with TOPOI in Berlin, he has taught at universities in Belgium, China, Denmark, Egypt, France and Switzerland. Recent publications include “The Significance of Shared Aspects of the Daily Temple Rituals” in Ägyptologische Tempeltagung: Interconnections between Temples (2010) and Architecture, Power, and Religion: Hatshepsut, Amun, and Karnak in Context (2012).