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    Kids of Knutby: Living in and Leaving the Swedish Filadelfia Congregation

    Kids of Knutby by Nilsson, Sanja;

    Living in and Leaving the Swedish Filadelfia Congregation

    Series: Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1st ed. 2023
    • Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
    • Date of Publication 2 October 2023
    • Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book

    • ISBN 9783031369803
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages238 pages
    • Size 210x148 mm
    • Weight 462 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations XVII, 238 p.
    • 550

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    Short description:

    This book tells the story of the children and youth of the charismatic new religious commune Knutby Filadelfia in Sweden. It recounts the history of the congregation, which started out as a part of the Swedish Pentecostal

    movement in 1921. In the 1990s, it developed into a new religion, when the congregation?s female pastor embraced the role of the Bride of Christ. The congregation became widely known in 2004 when one of its members was murdered by another member, the latter claiming to have been acting on orders from God. In 2018, the congregation dissolved after a few years of internal crisis.

    Sanja Nilsson provides rich empirical analysis of archival material and interviews with the congregation?s children and youth. The young informants? personal perspectives on their own childhoods encompass narratives from their time inside the congregation, when they identified as members of a stigmatized
    minority religion, aswell as from the time after the dissolution of the group, when they identified as
    defectors from what they came to view as a sectarian milieu.

    This work offers a comprehensive insight into the Knutby Filadelfia congregation, a group, that although notoriously charted by the media, has been hitherto unexplored by academics. It adds to the growing field of studies concerned with childhoods within new religions and expounds the dynamics of the defection process from the rarely applied perspective of children and youth themselves.

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    Long description:

    This book tells the story of the children and youth of the charismatic new religious commune Knutby Filadelfia in Sweden. It recounts the history of the congregation, which started out as a part of the Swedish Pentecostal

    movement in 1921. In the 1990s, it developed into a new religion, when the congregation?s female pastor embraced the role of the Bride of Christ. The congregation became widely known in 2004 when one of its members was murdered by another member, the latter claiming to have been acting on orders from God. In 2018, the congregation dissolved after a few years of internal crisis.

    Sanja Nilsson provides rich empirical analysis of archival material and interviews with the congregation?s children and youth. The young informants? personal perspectives on their own childhoods encompass narratives from their time inside the congregation, when they identified as members of a stigmatized
    minority religion, aswell as from the time after the dissolution of the group, when they identified as
    defectors from what they came to view as a sectarian milieu.

    This work offers a comprehensive insight into the Knutby Filadelfia congregation, a group, that although notoriously charted by the media, has been hitherto unexplored by academics. It adds to the growing field of studies concerned with childhoods within new religions and expounds the dynamics of the defection process from the rarely applied perspective of children and youth themselves.



    “This volume so valuable is Nilsson’s access to two different narratives given by the same protagonists: before and after ‘the Fall.’ … Goffman’s theoretical framework, which are promising for a broad array of studies using qualitative interviews—in Religious Studies and beyond.” (Gabriella Voss, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 50 (4), December, 2024)

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    Table of Contents:

    Part I: The Congregation.- Chapter 1: The Early History of the Congregation.- Chapter 2: The Pastors 1985?2003.- Chapter 3: The 2004 Murder.- Chapter 4: After the Murder: Isolation, Withdrawal, and Persecution.- Part II: The Children.- Chapter 5: Norms Concerning Children and Child Rearing in the Congregation.- Chapter 6: The Children and The Charismatic Leaders.- Chapter 7: Relations to Parents and Other Caregivers.- Chapter 8: Peer-to-Peer: The Construction of Friendships within the Youth Group.- Chapter 9: Outsiders: Friends and Enemies.- Chapter 10: Studying Children in New Religions.- Chapter 11: Epilogue: Leaving Knutby.


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