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Is There a Religion That Is Not Finnish?

The author stayed with the same family of Sami reindeer herders for 10 years. She learned how to beat shoegrass, wrestle a reindeer calf and go out in minus 40 degrees. "For me, it really was a discovery that a religion I had believed in as a child's was not actually," she says.

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