Nigerian Pentecostalism

Presents a multidisciplinary study of how Nigerian pentecostals conceive of and engage with a spirit-filled world, arguing that the character of the movement is defined through an underlying "spell of the invisible."

List of contents

Introduction
Sources of Nigerian Pentecostalism
The Spell of the Invisible
Excremental Visions in Postcolonial Pentecostalism
Desire and Disgust: Ways of Being for God
The Pentecostal Self: From Body to Body Politic
Politics: Between Ontology and Spriritual Warfare
Miracles, Sovereignity, and Community
Altersovereignty and the Virtue of Pentecostal Friendship
Spirituality and the Weight of Blackness
"This Neighbor Cannot Be Loved!": Invisibility and Nudity of the "Pentecostal Other"
Pentecostalism and Nigerian Society
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Nimi Wariboko

Product details

• Authors: Nimi Wariboko, Nimi (Royalty Account) Wariboko
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2014
• EAN: 9781580464901
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-490-1
• No. of pages: 378
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 244 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 758 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Afrika, Afrikanische Geschichte, Politik und Staat, RELIGION / Christianity / Pentecostal & Charismatic, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, History - General History, HISTORY / Africa / West