How Europe’s only Indigenous group is inspiring a greener Christianity

• The Sámi are Europe’s only recognized Indigenous group, having hunted, fished and herded reindeer across Arctic Europe for millennia before the arrival of Christianity.

• Today, the Sámi are fighting across their territories to resist mining, logging and energy projects that disrupt traditional activities.

• Sámi thinkers and religious leaders are pushing Scandinavia’s national churches to become allies in their fight for self-determination.

• These churches are increasingly interested in better understanding Indigenous Christian theology like that of the Sámi, which may present an alternative to a traditionally anthropocentric worldview. Some churches and followers, however, are not convinced.

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