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Thinking About Indigenous Religions

by Liudmila Nikanorova

Welcome to «Thinking About Indigenous Religions», a podcast where scholars, activists, artists, practitioners, and students discuss their understandings and usages of the term indigenous religions. The ambition is to address questions that many of us think of when we are thinking about indigenous religions. Are they the religions of indigenous peoples or a distinct group of religions? Is it a method, a theory, or a research field? Who gets to define indigenous religions? Who has already been defining indigenous religions, and whose voices and claims are yet to be heard and recognized? What makes a practice recognizable as religious and indigenous? This podcast is brought to you by INREL and GOVMAT from the Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Recording studio and technical support: UiT Result. Musical intro and outro: Lasse Michelsen. Host, editor and logo designer: Liudmila Nikanorova.

Latest episodes

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Episode 8. Imagining Global Adivasi-ness with Arjun Rathva and Gregory D. Alles

This episode concentrates on the translation - the transformation in performance - of the U.N.'s International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (9th of Aug

Mar 25 2021
31 min

Episode 7. Indigenous Futures: The Practice of Sovereignty in Nagaland with Arkotong Longkumer and Aheli Moitra

How does ‘sovereignty’ play out in the Naga areas – on the borders of India and Myanmar – with their rich stories connected to land, and their struggles to survive? How c

Feb 22 2021
1 h 04 min

Episode 6. Sámi Activism from Alta to Standing Rock with Siv Ellen Kraft

Former Sámi Parliament President Aili Keskitalo declared Standing Rock "is our common cause. It has become symbolic, one may rightly say that this is the world's Alt

Feb 15 2021
29 min

Episode 5. The Alta Conflict. Hunger strike for Sámi rights with Jorunn Eikjok. Part Two

"Norwegian Government did not just give us Sámi rights; we, the Sámi people, demanded our rights!" In Part Two of this two-part episode, we continue the conversation wit

Feb 4 2021
39 min

Episode 4. The Alta Conflict. Hunger strike for Sámi rights with Jorunn Eikjok. Part One.

This two-part episode is dedicated to the Alta Conflict, where  Sámi activists led a series of protests  in the 1970s and 1980s against the construction of a hydroelectri

Feb 2 2021
41 min

Episode 3. Translating Indigeneities with Bjørn Ola Tafjord

How to do research in religious studies without being too preoccupied with finding religion? How to resist the temptation of translating things categorically into religio

Jan 26 2021
35 min

Episode 2. Putting Sápmi on the Map. Sámi Activism through Art with Elle-Hánsa/Hans Ragnar Mathisen

In this episode we have the privilege to be joined by Elle-Hánsa, a Sámi artist, cartographer, and indigenous activist, to talk about how, through his art, he became a Sá

Jan 19 2021
33 min

Episode 1. Introduction to Indigenous Religions with Siv Ellen Kraft and Bjørn Ola Tafjord

What counts as indigenous religions? Who uses this term? How are their claims connected to indigenous movements and struggles for recognition, rights and sovereignty? Who

Jan 11 2021
40 min

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