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Author Adelakun, Abimbola Adunni, author

Title Performing power in Nigeria identity, politics, and Pentecostalism / Abimbola Adelakun, University of Texas, Austin
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource
Series African identities: past and present
Contents Demons and deliverance: discourses on Pentecostal character -- "What Islamic devils?!" : power struggles, race, and Christian trans-nationalism -- "Touch not mine anointed" : #metoo, #churchtoo, and the power of "See Finish" -- Everything Christianity/the Bible represents is being attacked on the Internet!": the internet and technologies of religious engagement -- "God too laughs and we can laugh too" : the ambivalent power of comedy performances -- "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
Summary Uses extensive archival material, interviews and fieldwork to explore how Nigerian Pentecostals mark their self-distinction as a people of power
Subject Pentecostal churches -- Nigeria
Pentecostalism -- Nigeria
Identification (Religion)
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Social aspects
Performance -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General.
Identification (Religion)
Pentecostal churches
Pentecostalism
Performance -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Nigeria
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108912747
1108912745