Performing Power in Nigeria: Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism by Abimbola

Description: Performing Power in Nigeria by Abimbola A. Adelakun A fresh and inter-disciplinary study of faith and social culture in Nigeria, this uses extensive archival material, interviews and fieldwork to explore how Nigerian Pentecostals use performance to mark their self-distinction as a people of power. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography 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). Table of Contents 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. Review The book treads new ground, bringing religion and performance studies into a richly creative tête-à-tête, in which performing Nigerian Pentecostalism translates lived imagination, experience, and praxis into sacred reality. Spiritual power and temporal politics are acted out via the aestheticization and dramatization of Pentecostalism, thus giving it a unique religious niche and identity. Afe Adogame, Princeton Theological SeminaryThis book boldly expands the disciplinary frontiers of Pentecostal studies from anthropology, history and political theory into performance studies, focusing on its creative and dramaturgical expressions of power. This approach and the insightful analysis it generates will no doubt appeal to scholars of Nigerian Pentecostalism from various disciplines. Olufunke Adeboye, University of LagosPerforming Power in Nigeria is an excellent study of religion and Pentecostalism in contemporary Nigeria. Drawing from her brilliant scholarship on performance and creative expressions of culture and power, Abimbola Adelakun provides a splendid analysis of the spectacular display of Pentecostal spiritual power and identity. Annalisa Butticci, Georgetown University Promotional Uses extensive archival material, interviews and fieldwork to explore how Nigerian Pentecostals mark their self-distinction as a people of power. Review Quote The book treads new ground, bringing religion and performance studies into a richly creative t Promotional "Headline" Uses extensive archival material, interviews and fieldwork to explore how Nigerian Pentecostals mark their self-distinction as a people of power. Description for Bookstore A fresh and inter-disciplinary study of faith and social culture in Nigeria, this uses extensive archival material, interviews and fieldwork to explore how Nigerian Pentecostals use performance to mark their self-distinction as a people of power. Description for Library A fresh and inter-disciplinary study of faith and social culture in Nigeria, this uses extensive archival material, interviews and fieldwork to explore how Nigerian Pentecostals use performance to mark their self-distinction as a people of power. Details ISBN1108831079 Author Abimbola A. Adelakun Short Title Performing Power in Nigeria Publisher Cambridge University Press Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1108831079 ISBN-13 9781108831079 Format Hardcover Subtitle Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism Pages 290 Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2021-11-11 NZ Release Date 2021-11-11 Publication Date 2021-11-11 UK Release Date 2021-11-11 Series African Identities: Past and Present Alternative 9781108923194 DEWEY 289.9409669 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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