RT Article
T1 Techniques of religion-making in Sweden: The case of the Missionary Church of Kopimism
JF Critical research on religion
VO 4
IS 2
SP 141
OP 155
A1 Nilsson, Per-Erik 1981-
A1 Enkvist, Victoria
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/166278581X
AB 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."
K1 Critical legal theory
K1 Sweden
K1 critical religion theory
K1 Faith Communities
K1 Governance
K1 Governmentality
K1 Law
K1 Religion
K1 Secularism
DO 10.1177/2050303215613145