Abimbola A. Adelakun (Austin University of Texas)

Performing Power in Nigeria

Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism

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Produktbeschreibung

A fresh and interdisciplinary study of faith and social culture in Nigeria, Abimbola A. Adelakun uses extensive archival material, interviews and fieldwork to explore how Nigerian Pentecostals use performance to mark their self-distinction as a people of power. Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Produktdetails

• African Identities: Past and Present
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Revised ed
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9781009281744
• ISBN-10: 1009281747
• Artikelnr.: 68801375

Autorenporträt

Abimbola A. Adelakun is Assistant Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin where her research focuses on the politics and performances of Pentecostalism. She is the author of articles in journals including the Journal of Women and Religion, Jenda: Journal of Culture and African Women Studies and co-editor of Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora (2018).

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.