Abimbola A. Adelakun

Performing Power in Nigeria (eBook, ePUB)

Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For decades, Pentecostalism has been one of the most powerful socio-cultural and socio-political movements in Africa. The Pentecostal modes of constructing the world by using their performative agencies to embed their rites in social processes have imbued them with immense cultural power to contour the character of their societies. Performing Power in Nigeria explores how Nigerian Pentecostals mark their self-distinction as a people of power within a social milieu that affirmed and contested their desires for being. Their faith, and the various performances that inform it, imbue the social matrix with saliences that also facilitate their identity of power. Using extensive archival material, interviews and fieldwork, Abimbola A. Adelakun questions the histories, desires, knowledge, tools, and innate divergences of this form of identity, and its interactions with the other ideological elements that make up the society. Analysing the important developments in contemporary Nigerian Pentecostalism, she demonstrates how the social environment is being transformed by the Pentecostal performance of their identity as the people of power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108924283
• Artikelnr.: 66182283

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.