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Kids of Knutby: Living in and Leaving the Swedish Filadelfia Congregation
Dalarna University, School of Culture and Society, Religious Studies.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0132-2074
2023 (English)Book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

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 Pentecostalmovement in 1921. In the 1990s, it developed into a new religion, when the congregations 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 congregations 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 stigmatizedminority religion, aswell as from the time after the dissolution of the group, when they identified asdefectors 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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Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 1. , p. 238
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Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities, ISSN 2946-2657, E-ISSN 2946-2665
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Religious Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-48379DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-36981-0ISBN: 978-3-031-36980-3 (print)ISBN: 978-3-031-36983-4 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-48379DiVA, id: diva2:1852348
Available from: 2024-04-17 Created: 2024-04-17 Last updated: 2025-10-09Bibliographically approved

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