Stefan Tørnquist Fisher-Høyrem

I teach courses in literature search, referencing, and study skills, primarily at the Faculty of Humanities and Pedagogy.

My research interests are located at the intersection of modern social and technological history, historiography and theory of history, and secularity studies and political theology. As a historian of modernity, I am interested in the material technological/performative mediation of "modern" concepts of temporality, autonomy, and immanence.

My PhD thesis (entitled ‘Time Machines’, June 2012) aimed to recast the question of secularization in Victorian England through critically drawing on the work of Charles Taylor in combination with the philosophy of Bruno Latour, and locating the ‘secular’ in the temporal dimension of particular social imaginaries and their technological performance – railways and national clock synchronization; newspapers and the public sphere; and bank notes and the economy.

I have taught modules in the theory of history, religious studies, culture and communication, worldview pluralism, and philosophy of science. I have lectured on rhetoric, nineteenth-century British history, and theories of secularity and secularisation.

Peer reviewed chapter/articles

• Fisher-Høyrem, S.; Herbert, D.'Clusters of Prestige: Social Order and Social Media in the Norwegian Bible Belt'. in Social Order and Social Media, Fisher-Høyrem, S.; Herbert, D. (eds) (Forthcoming)  
• Fisher-Høyrem, S.; Herbert, D. '“When You Live Here, That’s What You Get”: Other-, Ex-, and Non-Religious Outsiders in the Norwegian Bible Belt'. Religions 2019, 10, 611.
• Fisher-Høyrem, S. (2017) ‘”If It Teaches, It Teaches Imperceptibly”: Recasting the Secularity of the Victorian Public Sphere’, Journal of Religious History, 41 (4), s 457 - 475
• Fisher-Høyrem, S. (2017) ‘“Alle har et livssyn”: Et kritisk blikk på livssynsbegrepets historie og anvendelse’, in Hva er nå et menneske?, Balsnes, A. et al (red.). s 229-255.
• Fisher-Høyrem, S.  (2016) ‘Sekulariteter og postsekulariteter: Notater til en femdelt typologi’, DIN – tidsskrift for religion og kultur  (2), s 48-78.
• Fisher-Høyrem, S. (2013), ‘Charles Taylor and Political Religion: Overlapping Concerns and Points of Tension’. Religion Compass, 7: 326–337.

Research reports:

• Fisher-Høyrem, S. (2014) ‘Hvorfor akkurat Jesus? En rapport fra et trosopplæringsprosjekt’, Theophilos, vol. 6, nr. 3.

Book reviews:

• Fisher-Høyrem, S. (2018) Timothy J. LeCain, ‘The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past’ Cambridge University Press, 2017, in Historisk tidsskrift, 1/2018.
• Fisher-Høyrem, S. (2018) Michael Rectenwald, ‘Nineteenth-Century British Secularism’, Palgrave MacMillan, 2016, in Alternative Spirituality and Religion 10:1, pp. 130-131