Abimbola Adunni Adelakun

Powerful Devices

Prayer and the Political Praxis of Spiritual Warfare

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By analyzing spiritual warfare prayers, author Abimbola A. Adelakun shows how the rituals of prayer enable an apprehension of time, paradigms of self-enhancement, and the subversion of political authority. A critical intervention, Powerful Devices explores charismatic Christianity’s relationship to science and secular authority, technology and temporality, neoliberalism, and reactionary ideology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978831520
• ISBN-10: 1978831528
• Artikelnr.: 63365807

Autorenporträt

ABIMBOLA A. ADELAKUN is an assistant professor in the Department of African/African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.   

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Spiritual Warriors: Powerful Devices and the Devices of Power
Chapter 1: Aborting Satanic Pregnancies: Prayer as Apocalyptic Devices
Chapter 2: Rehearsing Authority: Spiritual Warriors as God’s Human Weapons
Chapter 3: The Noisome Pestilence: COVID-19 Pandemic and Conspirituality of
“Fake Science”
Chapter 4: Churches Going Virtual: Empty Auditoriums and the Essential
Services of Prayer
Conclusion: Jesus Has Won
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index