Thomas A. DuBois

University of Wisconsin-Madison
 

I have broad interest in religion and have published several studies in the area. These include my work Nordic Religions in the Viking Age, which looks at the interaction of cultural and religious communities in the Nordic region for the half-milennium spanning c. 800-1300. Together with a number of colleagues in the field, I put together a compendium of source texts and interpretive articles on Nordic saints entitled Sanctity in the North: Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia. I have also written an overview study of shamanic traditions entitled An Introduction to Shamanism. My current monograph project focuses on religion, particularly as expressed through religious wood carving in the Nordic-Baltic region.

 

 
 

 

 
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Nordic Religions in the Viking Age. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
editor. Sanctity in the North: Saints, LIves, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.
An Introduction to Shamanism. Introduction to Religion. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

 

"Rituals, Witnesses and Sagas" in Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspective: Origins, Changes and Interactions. Ed. Anders Andrén, Kristina Jennbert, and Catharina Raudvere. Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2006. Pp. 74-78.

"A History Seen: The Uses of Illumination in Flateyjarbók" Journal of English and Germanic Philology 103(1)(2004): 1-52.

"Continuities Through Change: The Ritual Life of Finnish Women Before and After Christianity" Journal of Finnish Studies 1(1)(1997): 5-24.

"Seidr, Sagas and Saami: The Nature and Significance of Religious Exchange in the Viking Age" in Northern Peoples, Southern States: Maintaining Ethnicities in the Circumpolar World. Ed. Robert Wheelersburg. CERUM Northern Studies 1. Umeå: CERUM, 1996. Pp. 43-66.

"From Maria to Marjatta: The Transformations of an Oral Poem in Elias Lönnrot's Kalevala" Oral Tradition 8(2)(1993): 247-288.