Temple at Uppsala was long held to be a religious center in the Norse religion once located at what is now Gamla Uppsala (Swedish "Old Uppsala"), Sweden...
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Gamla Uppsala (Swedish: [ˈɡâmːla ˈɵ̂pːˌsɑːla], Old Uppsala) is a parish and a village outside Uppsala in Sweden. It had 17,973 inhabitants in 2016. As...
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Nordic religions were slowly replaced. By the 12th century, Christianity became the established national religion and the Archdiocese of Uppsala was established...
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The Archbishop of Uppsala (spelled Upsala until the early 20th century) has been the primate of Sweden in an unbroken succession since 1164, first during...
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(2002). The Viking Way: Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandinavia. Uppsala: Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University. ISBN 978-91-506-1626-2...
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Dag Strömbäck (category Uppsala University alumni)
of religion and philologist. He was a professor at Uppsala University and also headed the Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore at Uppsala. Strömbäck...
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Sámi shamanism (redirect from Sámi religion)
forskning], Uppsala, 1987 ('The faith of the Sami') Karsten, Rafael, Samefolkets religion: de nordiska lapparnas hedniska tro och kult i religionshistorisk...
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Uppsala also has an important historical place in Swedish national culture, and identity for the Swedish establishment: in historiography, religion,...
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Lutheran national church in Sweden. A former state church, headquartered in Uppsala, with around 5.4 million members at year end 2023, it is the largest Christian...
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Germanic paganism (redirect from Germanic Religion and Mythology)
Germanic paganism or Germanic religion refers to the traditional, culturally significant religion of the Germanic peoples. With a chronological range...
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Mattias Gardell (category Academic staff of Uppsala University)
scholar of comparative religion. In March 2006 he was appointed of the Nathan Söderblom Chair of Comparative Religion at Uppsala University, Sweden. He...
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Emanuel Swedenborg (redirect from True Christian Religion)
Through the king's influence, he would later become professor of theology at Uppsala University and Bishop of Skara. Jesper took an interest in the beliefs...
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the Uppsala Synod in 1593. At this point, the breach with the papacy was finally ratified. At this time in Sweden, politics was religion, and religion was...
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Brunne was consecrated as bishop by Anders Wejryd, Archbishop of Uppsala, in Uppsala Cathedral on 8 November. King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia attended...
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Saint Erik (category Burials at Uppsala Cathedral)
Margaret; married in 1185 Sverre I of Norway, died in 1202. The assassinated king Erik was buried in the Old Uppsala church, which he had rebuilt around...
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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and in 1818 was appointed chancellor of Uppsala University, where he spent one semester. Oscar became Crown Prince in 1818...
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Mandaeism (redirect from Mandaean religion)
Studies in the Coptic Manichaean Psalm-book, Uppsala, 1949 Băncilă, Ionuţ (2018). Die mandäische Religion und der aramäische Hintergrund des Manichäismus:...
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Norse rituals (section Gamla Uppsala)
Anne-Sofie (1999); "Gamla Uppsala ställning i den förkristna kulten", in Schjødt, Jens Peter (ed.); Religion och samhälle i det förkristna Norden. ISBN 87-7838-458-3...
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Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye (redirect from Sigurd Orm i Øje)
Ragnar to avenge their dead brothers. Because the Swedish king controlled Uppsala and a holy cow named Sibilja, Ivar the Boneless believed gods were on Eysteinn's...
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his ally Boleslaw I (above), and 995, when his son Olof's coinage began in Sigtuna. According to Snorre Sturlasson, Eric died in Uppsala. Discrepancies between...
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Norse mythology (redirect from The stories of the Norse religion)
ISBN 0-292-75546-5. Price, Neil S (2002). The Viking Way: Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandinavia. Uppsala: Dissertation, Dept. Archaeology & Ancient History...
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Nut (goddess) (redirect from Nut (Egyptian religion))
cosmos, mothers, astronomy, and the universe in the ancient Egyptian religion. She was seen as a star-covered nude woman arching over the Earth, or as...
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Gustav Vasa (redirect from Gustav I Vasa)
with three of his wives, while only two are engraved) in the Cathedral of Uppsala. In Sweden, Gustav Vasa is considered to rank among the country's greatest...
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Georges Dumézil (category Academic staff of Uppsala University)
It was while lecturing on the Indo-European component in Germanic religion at Uppsala University in the spring of 1938 that Dumézil made a major discovery...
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(2002). The Viking Way: Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandinavia. Uppsala: Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University. ISBN 91-506-1626-9...
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Reformed Christianity (redirect from Reformed religion)
396–397. H. Knittermeyer, Bayle, Pierre, in Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 3. Auflage, Band I, col. 947. Bertolt Brecht, Leben des Galilei, Bild...
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Sam Harris (category Criticism of religion)
Jennek, Rafal (2017). Sam Harris on Religion in Peace and Conflict (PDF) (Thesis). Department of Theology, Uppsala Universitet. Retrieved June 20, 2020...
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usurpation of Mithothyn and the introduction of the worship of Frey at Uppsala, in that they utilize similar motifs and mythical figures. The spread of...
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