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Approved 21 Aug 2025

Sociology of Religion Perspectives on Children and Young Adults in Closed Religious Communities (ARK29L)

H3MSP (Autumn 2025, 50%, Day, Distance, Borlänge, Round 1, ORD)

Literature

  • Frisk, L., Nilsson, S., & Åkerbäck, P. (2018). Children in minority religions : growing up in controversial religious groups (1). Bristol: Equinox Publishing Ltd.. ISBN: 9781781794203
    Book / Anthology
  • Goffman, E. (1968). Asylums : essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates (Any edition is ok). Harmondsworth: Penguin. ISBN: 0140210075
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  • Goffman, E. (1963). Stigma : notes on the management of spoiled identity (Any edition is ok). Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall. ISBN: 0671622447
    Book / Anthology
  • Kirk-Jemmett, A. (2025). The E-Meter from a Child’s Perspective. Nova Religio, 28(4), 61-82. DOI: 10.1353/nvr.2024.a958966
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  • Nemes, M., & Miklovicz, A. (2025). The “Born-Into Effect”: Investigating Identity among Hungarian Second-Generation Scientologists. Nova Religio, 28(4), 83-95. DOI: 10.1353/nvr.2024.a958967
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  • Nilsson, S. (2024). Children in New Religious Movements (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781009065962
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  • Nilsson, S. (2023). Kids of Knutby. Living in and Leaving the Swedish Filadelfia Congregation [Electronic resource]. Palgrave MacMillan. 238 p. Retrieved from https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/dalarna/detail.action?docID=30764566&pq-origsite=summon#.
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  • Nilsson, S. (2011). Rebooting The Family. International Journal for the Study of New Religions, 2(2), 157-178. DOI: 10.1558/ijsnr.v2i2.157
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  • Nilsson, S. (2025). Researching Children in New Religious Movements. Nova Religio, 28(4), 96-106. DOI: 10.1353/nvr.2024.a958968
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  • Pratezina, J. (2019). Alternative religion kids: spiritual and cultural identity among children and youth involved with new religious movements. International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 24(1), 73-82. DOI: 10.1080/1364436x.2019.1619529
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  • Singler, B. (2015). Big Bad Pharma. Nova Religio, 19(2), 17-29. DOI: 10.1525/nr.2015.19.2.17
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  • van eck Dumayer van Twist, A. (2015). Perfect Children. Growing up on the Religious Fringe [Electronic resource]. 272 p. DOI: 9780199827787.001.0001
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  • Westbrook, D. (2025). New Religions and Second-Generation Studies. Nova Religio, 28(4), 5-13. DOI: 10.1353/nvr.2024.a958963
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  • Whedon, S. W. (2009). The Wisdom of Indigo Children: An Emphatic Restatement of the Value of American Children. Nova Religio, 12(3), 60-76. DOI: 10.1525/nr.2009.12.3.60
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Reference literature

  • Hardman, C. E., & Palmer, S. J. (Eds.). (1999). Children in new religions (1st ed.). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN: 0813526191
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