Abimbola A. Adelakun (Austin University of Texas)

Performing Power in Nigeria

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Produktbeschreibung

A fresh and inter-disciplinary study of faith and social culture in Nigeria, this uses extensive archival material, interviews and fieldwork to explore how Nigerian Pentecostals use performance to mark their self-distinction as a people of power.

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Produktdetails

• African Identities: Past and Present
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9781108831079
• ISBN-10: 1108831079
• Artikelnr.: 61485192

Autorenporträt

Abimbola A. Adelakun is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Performing Power in Nigeria: Politics, Identity, and Pentecostalism and Powerful Devices: Politics and Praxis of Spiritual Warfare.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Demons and Deliverance: Discourses on Pentecostal
Character; 2. 'What Islamic devils?!': Power Struggles, Race, and Christian
Trans-nationalism; 3. 'Touch not Mine Anointed': #MeToo, #ChurchToo, and
the Power of 'See Finish'; 4. 'Everything Christianity/the Bible Represents
is being Attacked on the Internet!': The Internet and Technologies of
Religious Engagement; 5. 'God too laughs and we can laugh too': The
Ambivalent Power of Comedy Performances in the Church; 6. 'The Spirit Names
the Child': Pentecostal Futurity in the Name of Jesus; Conclusion: Power
Must Change Hands: COVID 19, Power, and the Imperative of Knowledge.