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dc.contributor.authorKolshus, Thorgeir
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-26T08:07:16Z
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-28T11:54:48Z
dc.date.available2019-03-26T08:07:16Z
dc.date.available2019-03-28T11:54:48Z
dc.date.issued2019-03-26
dc.identifier.citationKolshus T. Esoterogeni og aktiv forskjellsdannelse: Religion og identitetsskapning, i Stillehavet og andre steder. FLEKS - Scandinavian Journal of Intercultural Theory and practice. 2019;6(1):24-39en
dc.identifier.issn1894-5988
dc.identifier.issn1894-5988
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/6885
dc.description.abstractEsoterogeny and the creation of difference: Religion and identity making, in the Pacific and elsewhere Taking its cue from Marx’ and Weber’s grand theorizing, a key narrative in Western modernity has been the inevitable dissolution of pre-modern identities. This thesis has informed both policy making and notions of global agency, and in effect caused a particular worldview in which everyone will become more or less the same – what I refer to as the Star Trek-vision of globalized culture and values. In this article, I borrow the linguistic concept of ‘esoterogeny’, the creation of the obscure, to address whether difference, far from being coincidental, serves a more fundamental experiential purpose and consequently is actively maintained. The empirical point of departure are church fissions and denominational dynamics in the Pacific island state of Vanuatu. I argue that in an age characterized by identity politics, in which recognition and attention are scarce resources, all keen observers of social systems should expect the outcome of ever more global interaction to lead to an increase in articulations of social and cultural difference.en
dc.language.isonben
dc.publisherOsloMet - Storbyuniversiteteten
dc.relation.ispartofseriesFLEKS;Vol 6 No 1 (2019): Forskjeller: forventninger, forbløffelse og ubehag
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectEsoterogenyen
dc.subjectIdentity politicsen
dc.subjectSocial differentiationsen
dc.subjectDenominationalismen
dc.subjectVanuatuen
dc.titleEsoterogeni og aktiv forskjellsdannelse: Religion og identitetsskapning, i Stillehavet og andre stederen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typePeer revieweden
dc.date.updated2019-03-26T08:07:16Z
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.7577/fleks.3308
dc.identifier.cristin1685669
dc.source.journalFLEKS - Scandinavian Journal of Intercultural Theory and practice


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