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This essay aims to investigate how two former members of the congregation Knutby Filadelfia describe Åsa Waldau's leadership and how the congregation stayed together through inclusion and exclusion. The former members are Linnéa Kuling and Peter Gembäck. Linnéa moved to Knutby and joined the congregation when she was four years old. Peter joined as an adult and later became a pastor. To answer the purpose, the essay is constructed through the method of qualitative text analysis. The two former members' own stories are used. The essay's theoretical basis is built through the concepts of charismatic leadership and sects, which are connected to the results by an analysis. The essay's results suggest that Åsa Waldau leads through manipulation, obedience, hierarchy, inclusion and exclusion. The members must obey Åsa, and if this is not thoroughly carried out, they are reprimanded through physical and mental violence and excluded from the community. A culture of obligation imprints the congregation. Pleading the leader may increase the admittance. The central element in the congregation revolves around the sect concept's distinctive features of being "right" or "wrong". |
