Abimbola A. Adelakun

Performing Power in Nigeria (eBook, PDF)

Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009281713
• Artikelnr.: 70908780

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.