Home›Sources›The End of Drum-Time: Religious Change among the Lule Saami, 1670s-1740sSourcesThe End of Drum-Time: Religious Change among the Lule Saami, 1670s-1740sCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "The End of Drum-Time: Religious Change among the Lule Saami, 1670s-1740s." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/the-end-of-drum-time-religious-change-among-the-lule-saami-1670s-1740s.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). The End of Drum-Time: Religious Change among the Lule Saami, 1670s-1740s. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/the-end-of-drum-time-religious-change-among-the-lule-saami-1670s-1740sCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-the-end-of-drum-time-religious-change-am, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {The End of Drum-Time: Religious Change among the Lule Saami, 1670s-1740s}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/the-end-of-drum-time-religious-change-among-the-lule-saami-1670s-1740s}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXHakan Rydving is a scholar of Saami religion, and this Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis monograph, originally his doctoral thesis, is the standard scholarly study of religious change among the Lule Saami between the 1670s and 1740s, the period of the Lutheran mission's campaign against indigenous Saami religion. Its strength is methodological: Rydving reads the missionary sources critically against themselves, drawing out what they inadvertently reveal about the religion they were trying to suppress rather than taking missionary description at face value. Its limit is chronological and geographic, so a claim about Saami religion in a different region or period needs a source matched to that context.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (28 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsCitationAuthorWell-attestedHakan RydvingPublisherWell-attestedActa Universitatis UpsaliensisPublication YearWell-attested1993URLWell-attestedhttps://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:331196&dswid=2429Source TypeWell-attestedMonographAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1Published by Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis as Hakan Rydving's doctoral thesis and standard scholarly study of Lule Saami religious change, peer reviewed university-level scholarship.NotesWell-attestedThe standard study of the Lutheran mission against Saami religion; reads the missionary record against itself rather than at face value.Claims Backed By This Source (28 claims)This source backs 28 claims across the atlas. As facts: 26 well-attested. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicArticles, 10 claims: 10 well-attested.Religions, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 general references.Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.Cultures, 1 claims: 1 general references.Well-attested26ArticlesA Painted Map of a WorldA Tradition the Historical Record Mostly SilencedConfiscated, Counted, and Slowly Going HomeGods, Sieidi, and the BearHow the Shell Is Built, and How Long It Outlives the HeadRevival Led by Sami Communities ThemselvesSieidi, the Noaidi and the Drums That Were BurnedThe Drum, and the NoaidiThe Drums That Were BurnedThe Sami Missions, the Drums and a Truth CommissionReligionsSámi ReligionSourcesThe End of Drum-Time: Religious Change among the Lule Saami, 1670s-1740sGeneral References2CulturesSamiReligionsSámi ReligionComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year