LEADER 04114nam 22006015 450 001 9910746967303321 005 20251008143713.0 010 $a9783031369810 010 $a3031369815 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-36981-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30764566 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30764566 035 $a(OCoLC) 1402228410 035 $a(CKB)28443816600041 035 $a(OCoLC)1402813544 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-36981-0 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928443816600041 100 $a20230929d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aKids of Knutby $eLiving in and Leaving the Swedish Filadelfia Congregation /$fby Sanja Nilsson 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (xvii, 238 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities,$x2946-2665 311 08$aPrint version: Nilsson, Sanja Kids of Knutby Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031369803 327 $aPart 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. 330 $aThis book tells the story of the children and youth of the charismatic new religious commune Knutby Filadelfia in Sweden. It recounts the history of the congregation, which started out as a part of the Swedish Pentecostal movement in 1921. In the 1990s, it developed into a new religion, when the congregation?s female pastor embraced the role of the Bride of Christ. The congregation became widely known in 2004 when one of its members was murdered by another member, the latter claiming to have been acting on orders from God. In 2018, the congregation dissolved after a few years of internal crisis. Sanja Nilsson provides rich empirical analysis of archival material and interviews with the congregation?s children and youth. The young informants? personal perspectives on their own childhoods encompass narratives from their time inside the congregation, when they identified as members of a stigmatized minority religion, aswell as from the time after the dissolution of the group, when they identified as defectors from what they came to view as a sectarian milieu. This work offers a comprehensive insight into the Knutby Filadelfia congregation, a group, that although notoriously charted by the media, has been hitherto unexplored by academics. It adds to the growing field of studies concerned with childhoods within new religions and expounds the dynamics of the defection process from the rarely applied perspective of children and youth themselves. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities,$x2946-2665 606 $aCults 606 $aReligion and sociology 606 $aPsychology and religion 606 $aNew Religious Movements 606 $aSociology of Religion 606 $aPsychology of Religion and Spirituality 615 0$aCults. 615 0$aReligion and sociology. 615 0$aPsychology and religion. 615 14$aNew Religious Movements. 615 24$aSociology of Religion. 615 24$aPsychology of Religion and Spirituality. 676 $a284.09485 700 $aNilsson$b Sanja$01431390 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910746967303321 996 $aKids of Knutby$93573709 997 $aUNINA