Techniques of religion-making in Sweden

The case of the Missionary Church of Kopimism

Bibliographic Data

ID4972467
AuthorsPer Erik Nilsson (0000-0002-1555-8133, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, corresponding author), Per-Erik Nilsson, Victoria Enkvist (Uppsala University)
Year2016
Volume4
Issue2
Pages141-155
Publication date2016-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Research on Religion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2050-3032 • E-ISSN: 2050-3040
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2050303215613145
OpenAlexW2502567494
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited26

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

Epistemology · Faith · Governmentality · Normative · Performative utterance · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Secularism · Secularity · Sociology · State (computer science · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology

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