ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the dynamic visual arts in contemporary Sapmi and aboriginal Australia to investigate the interconnection of visual arts, religion, and globalization. It continues a longer study of Sami arts in the horizon of aboriginal arts in Australia and Peru between 1995 and 2004, and it concentrates on some selected points that are of theoretical interest in the crossing of visual studies, cultural studies, and religious studies. A locative religion can undergo an "utopization," that is, a movement away from belief in the physical presence of gods in specific places to belief in freedom and a lack of definite contact points where the one God meets the faithful from a place beyond the absolute and at a predetermined time. The production of art is in itself a personal religious experience, and at the same time, it is a public practice.
