Abstract
Archaeological research on pre-Christian religion has increased greatly during the last two decades. Studies of ritual and religion appear frequently in scholarly, popular and antiquarian publications of the 1990s. Selected publications in Scandinavian archaeology are presented in order to characterise and discuss different approaches. Central theoretical and methodological questions are discussed, as well as the co-operation with other humanistic disciplines.
Highlights
In the beginning of the 1970s students of archaeology laughed at everything that was called "cultic", a term that could be used when one had no suggestions for any other interpretation
The focus on ritual and religion has never been so intense within archaeology as during the last two decades, both internationally and within the Nordic countries, in particular in Sweden and Norway and lately in Denmark
Exclusive publications have been presented especially concerning the ntentalité in the Viking Age (Steinsland & Meulengracht Serensen 1994) and the Bronze Age
Summary
Archaeological research on pre-Christian religion has increased greatly during the last two decades. Studies of ritual and religion appear frequently in scholarly, popular and antiquarian publications of the 1990s. Selected publications in Scandinaviau archaeology are presented in order to characterise and discuss different approaches. Research on religion and ritual of the past is today a scholarly phenomenon and a subject of public interest, like the actual situation in earlier archaeological works (e.g. Hildebrand 1880:32ff; Muller 1897; Brendsted 1938-40; Stenberger 1969). Somehow the past is present, and it seems like archaeology and a long-term perspective are relevant in social. Selected publications on ritual and religion within archaeology of the late twentieth century will be presented, in order to characterise and discuss different approaches and angles. After several centuries without any interest in religion, research on pre-Christian religion is once again established in archaeology in the 1990s
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