Nonserious Religion: Jediism as a Regime of Responsibilization
Nonserious Religion: Jediism as a Regime of Responsibilization

Summary/Abstract: The paper claims that Jediism, one of the popular invented religions, is articulated as a practice of the self-assembled individually from heterogeneous elements drawn from Star Wars films, other forms of fiction, other religions, New Age subcultures, popular psychology, and so on. The analysis focusses on Jediist declarations of faith in legal context, and in the context of the online community of the Temple of the Jedi Order. Building on this, the paper proposes an account of Jediism as an exemplary neoliberal religion shaped as a regime of responsibilization that allows the followers to choose their religion, and at the same turn invites them to calculate their choices as entrepreneurs of themselves trying to make religion valuable in addressing their personal problems.

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