Stefan Tørnquist Fisher-Høyrem

Førstebibliotekar

Research and Innovation

Email: stefan.fisher-hoyrem@uia.no
Phone: +47 38141023

Office D2033 (Universitetsveien 25, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway)

Research groups

Holy scriptures and authoritative texts

Areas of responsibility

I am a historian (MA, PhD) with a background in English Studies, Journalism, and University Pedagogy. Subject Librarian for Religion, Philosophy, and History. Also subject librarian for Visual Arts and Drama.

Research

Academic interests

I have researched modern social history and history of technology, historiography and philosophy of history, social media and (non)religious identities, and post-secularity and political theology. I am also interested in everything that happens when classical rhetoric meets modern neuroscience and writing pedagogies.

Tuition

I mostly teach courses in literature search, referencing, academic writing, and study skills.

Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan & Herbert, David Eric John (2022). Clusters of Prestige: Social Media and Social Order in the Norwegian Bible Belt. In Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan & Herbert, David Eric John (Ed.), Social Media and Social Order. De Gruyter Open. ISSN 9788366675605. p. 33–51. doi: 10.2478/9788366675612-005.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan & Herbert, David Eric John (2019). “When You Live Here, That’s What You Get”: Other-, Ex-, and Non-Religious Outsiders in the Norwegian Bible Belt. Religions. ISSN 2077-1444. 10(11), p. 1–16. doi: 10.3390/rel10110611. Full text in Research Archive
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2017). "Alle har et livssyn": Et kritisk blikk på livssynsbegrepets historie og anvendelse. In Balsnes, Anne Haugland (Eds.), Hva er nå et menneske? : tverrfaglige bidrag. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202566258. p. 229–253.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2017). "If it teaches, it teaches imperceptibly:" Recasting the secularity of the Victorian public sphere. Journal of Religious History. ISSN 0022-4227. 41(4), p. 457–475. doi: 10.1111/1467-9809.12452.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2016). Sekulariteter og postsekulariteter: Notater til en femdelt typologi. DIN - Tidsskrift for religion og kultur. ISSN 1501-9934. p. 48–78.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2013). Charles Taylor and Political Religion: Overlapping Concerns and Points of Tension. Religion Compass. ISSN 1749-8171. 7(8), p. 326–337. doi: 10.1111/rec3.12055. Show summary
This article introduces some key aspects of the secularization thesis put forward in Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age (2007), with a particular view to how these might illuminate and/or complicate the study of political religion. Particularly helpful are Taylor’s attention to nuance Western theological controversies and his emphasis on how ideas and ultimate concerns are not only expressed in obviously ritualistic or ‘religious’ mass events, but are also embodied on the level of ordinary and habitual collective practices. However, the encounter between Taylor’s work and the field of political religion also accentuates points of seemingly irresolvable tension. Taylor insists that the notions of an ‘ordinary’ world and autonomous individuals with an innate urge to transcend it—both notions underpinning most studies of political religion—cannot be accepted as a priori but must be historicized and explained. Ultimately, the article encourages scholars of political religion to consider the critiques implicit in Taylor’s thesis in the hope that this might generate new and better ways of studying 'ultimate concerns' and their place in modernity.

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Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2024). Studieferdigheter: Hvordan bli en fagperson. Fagbokforlaget. ISBN 9788245045949. 168 p. Show summary
Hovedmålet med å være student er ikke å bestå eksamen eller få gode karakterer, men å bli en fagperson i et fagfellesskap. Dette perspektivet bør styre alt studenter gjør i studietiden – fra litteratursøk og akademisk skriving til gruppearbeid og stressmestring. De fleste bøker om «studieteknikk» fokuserer på å memorere korrekte svar før eksamensdagen. Denne boken tilbyr i stedet verktøy og øvelser studenter kan bruke for å utvikle ferdighetene de trenger, ikke bare i studiene, men også i fremtidens arbeidsliv: emosjonell intelligens, kreativitet, forestillingsevne, kognitiv fleksibilitet, samarbeidsevne og ikke minst evnen til å lære seg stadig nye ferdigheter.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2022). Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783031092879. 232 p. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
This open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in nineteenth-century technological networks. Untethering the concept of secularity from questions of ‘religion’ and ‘belief’, it offers an innovative rethinking of the history of secularisation that will appeal to students, scholars, and everyone interested in secularity, Victorian culture, the history of technology, and the temporalities of modernity.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan & Herbert, David Eric John (2022). Social Media and Social Order. De Gruyter Open. ISBN 9788366675605.

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Eriksen, Helen; Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan; Korsvoll, Nils Hallvard; Rasmussen, Josephine Munch & Synnes, Ronald Mayora (2020). UiA og antidiskriminering: Her er en utfordring til rektor. Khrono.no. ISSN 1894-8995.
Korsvoll, Nils Hallvard; Rasmussen, Josephine Munch & Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2020). UiAs billige antidiskriminering. Khrono.no. ISSN 1894-8995.
Wirth, Christa Santina; Rasmussen, Josephine Munch; Korsvoll, Nils Hallvard & Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2020). UiA-studentane er ikkje lettkrenkte. Fædrelandsvennen. ISSN 0805-3790.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2018). "Sosiale medier: Hierarkier, prestisje, konformitet".
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2018). "Du er til salgs: hvorfor sosiale medier fungerer som de gjør".
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2017). Nye medier, gamle idealer. Religion: Going Public Blog.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2017). Digital Æreskultur. Avisa Vårt land.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2017). Franklin Graham Harms Gospel Witness, Norway Evangelicals Say. The Christian Post.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2017). Å se en annen vei. Verdidebatt.no.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2017). Faraos hoff. Avisa Vårt land.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2016). Secularities and Postsecularities: Notes Towards a New Typology.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2015). Søkte Allah, fant Jesus. Lunde Forlag. ISSN 9788252003079.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2015). Skeptikerens guide til Jesus del 2: Om evangelienes troverdighet. Luther Forlag. ISSN 9788253148182.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2015). As Good As Gold: The Technological Translation of the Gold Standard’s Abstract Immutability into Bank of England Paper Notes, cc. 1800-1855.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2015). Sekulariteter og postsekulariteter: Notater til en femdelt typologi.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2013). Dette er oss! Kulturvinduet.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2013). Tre teorier om alt. Lunde Forlag.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2012). Terrorens historiske ekko. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2012). Charles Taylor and Political Religion: Overlapping Concerns and Irresolvable Tensions.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2010). Secularization and the Multiple Times of Victorian Modernity.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2009). Rethinking the Equation of Modernity and Secularity after Charles Taylor: The Performance of Secular Time in Victorian Britain.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2014). Hvorfor akkurat Jesus? En rapport fra et trosopplæringsprosjekt. NLA Mediehøgskolen Gimlekollen.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2012). Time Machines: Technology, Temporality, and the Victorian Social Imaginary. Oxford Brookes University.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2008). "Laws Inherent In Ourselves": Mikhail Bakunin and the Modern Social Imaginary. Oxford Brookes University.

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Published Apr. 16, 2024 10:45 AM - Last modified June 7, 2024 10:43 PM