Techniques of religion-making in Sweden: The case of the Missionary Church of Kopimism

This article is an analysis of the recognition of the Missionary Church of Kopimism as a faith community by the Swedish state. The analysis draws on post-Foucaultian writings on governmentality and seeks to understand what kind of normative and proscriptive understandings of "religion" gui...

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VerfasserInnen: Nilsson, Per-Erik 1981- (VerfasserIn) ; Enkvist, Victoria (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Sage [2016]
In: Critical research on religion
Jahr: 2016, Band: 4, Heft: 2, Seiten: 141-155
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Missionarische Kirche des Kopimismus
weitere Schlagwörter:B Sweden
B Law
B Critical legal theory
B critical religion theory
B Religion
B Governmentality
B Governance
B Faith Communities
B Secularism
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Zusammenfassung:This article is an analysis of the recognition of the Missionary Church of Kopimism as a faith community by the Swedish state. The analysis draws on post-Foucaultian writings on governmentality and seeks to understand what kind of normative and proscriptive understandings of "religion" guide the process. The authors argue that the recognition reveals fundamental aspects of the Swedish state's performative role in the recognition of faith communities which challenges any unreflective classification of it as "secular."
ISSN:2050-3040
Enthält:Enthalten in: Critical research on religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/2050303215613145