Thinking About Indigenous Religions
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.
Podcasting since 2021 • 8 episodes
Thinking About Indigenous Religions
Latest Episodes
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 August) into the World Adivasi Day (Vishwa Adivasi Divas or Din) in Gujarat, specifical...
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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 can we think about notions of sovereignty beyond nation-state boundaries, t...
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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 Alta-case" (NRK Nyheter 07.11.2016)In this episode, we meet Professor
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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 with Sámi anthropologist and activist Jorunn Eikjok, as she takes us th...
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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 hydroelectric power plant on the Alta River in Northern Norway. The Sámi act...
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