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Powerful Devices Prayer and the Political Praxis of Spiritual Warfare

Adelakun, Abimbola Adunni
Heftet / 2022 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781978831513
Publisert
2022-10-14
Utgiver
Vendor
Rutgers University Press
Vekt
3 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
15 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
01, G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Adelakun, Abimbola Adunni

Om bidragsyterne

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

Powerful Devices Prayer and the Political Praxis of Spiritual Warfare

Adelakun, Abimbola Adunni
Heftet / 2022 / Engelsk
Adelakun, Abimbola Adunni
Heftet / 2022 / Engelsk
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<p>"A dazzling portrait of the contemporary Nigerian Pentecostal spiritual warfare prayer “showdown” with 'the new demons that modernity has vomited.' Adelakun shows how the rise of Pentecostalism is imbricated with neoliberalism, giving rise to new subjectivities, identities, and imaginaries ready for apocalyptic battle."</p>

- Elizabeth McAlister, author of Rara! Vodou, Power and Performance in Haiti and its Diaspora

"<i>Powerful Devices</i> provides an original, nuanced counterpoint to prevailing scholarship on Pentecostal Christianity in Nigeria. With deep insights into the performative nature of prayer, Abimbola Adelakun charts a new course for understanding Pentecostalism’s growth in Nigeria and beyond that will continue to shape the field for years to come."

- Jacob K. Olupona, author of City of 201 Gods: IlÊ-Ifè in Time, Space, and the Imagination

Powerful Devices studies spiritual warfare performances as an apparatus for disestablishing structures of power and knowledge, and establishing righteousness in their stead. Drawing on performance studies’ emphasis on radicality and breaking of social norms as devices of social transformation, the book demonstrates how Christian groups with dominant cultural power but who perceive themselves as embattled wield the ideas of performance activism. Combining religious studies with ethnography, Powerful Devices explores Nigerian Pentecostals and US Evangelicals’ praxis of transnational spiritual warfare. By closely studying spiritual warfare prayers as a “device,” Powerful Devices shows how the rituals of prayer enable an apprehension of time, paradigms of self-enhancement, and the subversion of politics and authority. A critical intervention, Powerful Devices explores charismatic Christianity’s relationship to science and secular authority, technology and temporality, neoliberalism, and reactionary ideology.
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Drawing on performance studies’ emphasis on radicality and breaking of social norms as devices of social transformation, the book demonstrates how Christian groups with dominant cultural power but who perceive themselves as embattled wield the ideas of performance activism.
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PrefaceIntroduction: Spiritual Warriors: Powerful Devices and the Devices of PowerChapter 1: Aborting Satanic Pregnancies: Prayer as Apocalyptic DevicesChapter 2: Rehearsing Authority: Spiritual Warriors as God’s Human WeaponsChapter 3: The Noisome Pestilence: COVID-19 Pandemic and Conspirituality of “Fake Science”Chapter 4: Churches Going Virtual: Empty Auditoriums and the Essential Services of PrayerConclusion: Jesus Has WonAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex
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<p>"A dazzling portrait of the contemporary Nigerian Pentecostal spiritual warfare prayer “showdown” with 'the new demons that modernity has vomited.' Adelakun shows how the rise of Pentecostalism is imbricated with neoliberalism, giving rise to new subjectivities, identities, and imaginaries ready for apocalyptic battle."</p>

- Elizabeth McAlister, author of Rara! Vodou, Power and Performance in Haiti and its Diaspora

"<i>Powerful Devices</i> provides an original, nuanced counterpoint to prevailing scholarship on Pentecostal Christianity in Nigeria. With deep insights into the performative nature of prayer, Abimbola Adelakun charts a new course for understanding Pentecostalism’s growth in Nigeria and beyond that will continue to shape the field for years to come."

- Jacob K. Olupona, author of City of 201 Gods: IlÊ-Ifè in Time, Space, and the Imagination

Powerful Devices studies spiritual warfare performances as an apparatus for disestablishing structures of power and knowledge, and establishing righteousness in their stead. Drawing on performance studies’ emphasis on radicality and breaking of social norms as devices of social transformation, the book demonstrates how Christian groups with dominant cultural power but who perceive themselves as embattled wield the ideas of performance activism. Combining religious studies with ethnography, Powerful Devices explores Nigerian Pentecostals and US Evangelicals’ praxis of transnational spiritual warfare. By closely studying spiritual warfare prayers as a “device,” Powerful Devices shows how the rituals of prayer enable an apprehension of time, paradigms of self-enhancement, and the subversion of politics and authority. A critical intervention, Powerful Devices explores charismatic Christianity’s relationship to science and secular authority, technology and temporality, neoliberalism, and reactionary ideology.
Les mer
Drawing on performance studies’ emphasis on radicality and breaking of social norms as devices of social transformation, the book demonstrates how Christian groups with dominant cultural power but who perceive themselves as embattled wield the ideas of performance activism.
Les mer
PrefaceIntroduction: Spiritual Warriors: Powerful Devices and the Devices of PowerChapter 1: Aborting Satanic Pregnancies: Prayer as Apocalyptic DevicesChapter 2: Rehearsing Authority: Spiritual Warriors as God’s Human WeaponsChapter 3: The Noisome Pestilence: COVID-19 Pandemic and Conspirituality of “Fake Science”Chapter 4: Churches Going Virtual: Empty Auditoriums and the Essential Services of PrayerConclusion: Jesus Has WonAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781978831513
Publisert
2022-10-14
Utgiver
Vendor
Rutgers University Press
Vekt
3 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
15 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
01, G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Adelakun, Abimbola Adunni

Om bidragsyterne

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

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