ISBN:
9780226507149
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 349 Seiten)
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Asamoah-Gyadu, J. Kwabena Political spiritualities. The Pentecostal revolution in Nigeria. By Ruth Marshall. Pp. x+349. Chicago–London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 24 (paper). 978 0 226 50712 5; 978 0 226 50713 2 2012
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Marshall, Ruth, 1964 - Political spiritualities
DDC:
276.69/082
Keywords:
Christianity and politics
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Pentecostalism Political aspects
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Pentecostalism
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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Nigeria
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Pfingstbewegung
;
Politik
Abstract:
After an explosion of conversions to Pentecostalism over the past three decades, tens of millions of Nigerians now claim that “Jesus is the answer.” But if Jesus is the answer, what is the question? What led to the movement’s dramatic rise and how can we make sense of its social and political significance? In this ambitiously interdisciplinary study, Ruth Marshall draws on years of fieldwork and grapples with a host of important thinkers—including Foucault, Agamben, Arendt, and Benjamin—to answer these questions. To account for the movement’s success, Marshall explores how Pentecostalism presents the experience of being born again as a chance for Nigerians to realize the promises of political and religious salvation made during the colonial and postcolonial eras. Her astute analysis of this religious trend sheds light on Nigeria’s contemporary politics, postcolonial statecraft, and the everyday struggles of ordinary citizens coping with poverty, corruption, and inequality. Pentecostalism’s rise is truly global, and Political Spiritualities persuasively argues that Nigeria is a key case in this phenomenon while calling for new ways of thinking about the place of religion in contemporary politics
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Rethinking the Religious and the Political in Africa -- 2. Rupture, Redemption, and the History of the Present -- 3. Revival and the Postcolonial Crisis of Government -- 4. God’s Subjects -- 5. Born-Again Ethics and the Spirits of the Political Economy -- 6. The Politics of Conviction -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Grace Ihere’s Testimony -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
DOI:
10.7208/9780226507149
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780226507149
URL:
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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