This thesis is about Ron’s Org and Dror Center, two independent Scientology groups. They schismed away from the Church of Scientology at different times and under different circumstances. Ron’s Org is the older of the two, and are spread over large parts of the world, with their main activity focused on Europe. I have visited the headquarter in Switzerland and some of the many Ron’s Orgs in Moscow, ...

This chapter explores the shift to ‘indigeneity’ and ‘indigenous religion’ among the Sámi, through a focus on Sámi activism at Alta (1979–1981, concerning a proposed power plant) and Standing Rock (2016–2017, concerning a proposed pipeline). It is based on a combination of multi-sited fieldwork, interviews and textual sources, and proceeds along the lines of ‘light comparison’, inspired partly by ...

Dette er den aksepterte manuskriptversjonen av artikkelen. Publisert versjon er tilgjengelig i <a href=https://www.idunn.no/heimen/2015/02/>Heimen Lokal og regional historie 2015; Volum 52.(2) s. 148-168</a>

This paper is one of a series of five studying the intergenerational transfer of infant mortality down the maternal line. All five studies share the same theoretical and methodological design, and use data derived from a standard database format: the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS). The data for the research reported in this paper were derived from a longitudinal dataset covering the 19th and 20th ...

It has previously been shown that infant mortality clusters in a subset of families, a phenomenon which was observed in historical populations as well as contemporary developing countries. A transmission of death clustering across generations has also been shown in Belgium, but it is unknown whether such effects are specific to the studied context or are also found in other areas. The current article ...

This article seeks to challenge what may seem to be an obvious assertion: that finitude is original in the sense that it must be presupposed that any possible meaning can only be thought beginning from this finitude. I do this through a rereading of Derrida’s epochal essay “Violence and Metaphysics,” which perhaps is the most decisive interpretation of the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. In the ...

Fly ble første gang benyttet til kartlegning i Øst-Antarktis i 1929. De fleste Antarktis-ekspedisjonene det neste tiåret hadde fly om bord, noe som førte til at nesten hele kystlinjen mellom 100° øst og 20° vest på kort tid ble oppdaget og kartlagt. Etter at fotogrammetrisk metode ble tatt i bruk i 1936 ble kartene vesentlig forbedret. Oppgaven setter søkelys på den betydningen bruk av fly og ...

This article deals with a copy book written by Isaac Olsen, dating from the early eighteenth century. Isaac Olsen was a teacher and catechist working among the Sami people in the region of Finnmark, Northern Norway. He was a predecessor of the Sami missionary Thomas von Westen. Isaac Olsen left a handwritten copy book of nearly 1000 pages, today preserved in The Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, ...

This thesis looks at how different people’s practices, surroundings and networks have shaped different expressions of Islam in Tromsø, from 1981 when the first Muslims arrived until March 2013. It is based on fieldwork consisting of interviews, participation in social events and the gathering of documents, including earlier research, newspapers and archive material. This is an attempt to write an ...

The main question posed in this thesis is how livity is articulated by a group of Rastafaris who refer to themselves as “Itral Imple”. They are all connected to the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica. The methods I use are fieldwork and interviews. The theoretical perspective is articulation theory, a theory that looks at the diversity of ideas and practices in a movement rather than ...