ABSTRACT
A central finding is that the public spaces of religion have expanded significantly. Most important is the adding of a fourth loci—religion ‘everywhere’—suggested and developed by the Norwegian historian of religion Ingvild Sælid Gilhus, in order to cater for communication about religion and the world of new media. Missionaries aimed at the extinction and replacement of Sámi religion. Religion was one of the registers used to articulate this, based on notions of shared connections to home and burial sites, to family and natural environs, and to threats to all of this, from colonial regimes and politics of exploitation. Lutheran Protestantism is the dominant religion there in Norway, including for Sapmi on the Norwegian side since at least the 19th century. The merging of Sámi shamanism and Sámi religion contributes to the strengthening of both forms. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts in the preceding chapters of this book.
