"When You Live Here, That's What You Get": Other-, Ex-, and Non-Religious Outsiders in the Norwegian Bible Belt

This article presents data from our investigations in Kristiansand, the largest city in Southern Norway, an area sometimes called Norway's ‘Bible belt'. We investigate how social media is reshaping social relations in the city, looking especially at how social order is generated, reinforce...

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Authors: Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (Author) ; Herbert, David (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2019]
In: Religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 10, Issue: 11
Further subjects:B Norbert Elias
B figurational sociology
B public events
B Mediatization
B Nonreligion
B Social media
B Social stratification
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