ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the member registration practices, meanings, and uses of identity papers produced by evangelical migrant churches in Morocco and Senegal. Based on interviews with church leaders and worshippers in Rabat and Dakar, this chapter demonstrates that, as with other bureaucratic documents, the member documents issued by churches are vehicles for processes of subjectification and serve to develop a sense of belonging to a community. At the same time, the documents make it possible to control mobilities, maintain networks, and consolidate the faith of followers who migrate. These documents are therefore central not only in the religious practice of the worshipper but also in the identification of the ‘good Christian’ and the emergence of religious forms of citizenship.
