Performing Power in Nigeria : Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism

Name: Performing Power in Nigeria : Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Performing Power in NigeriaIdentity, Politics, and Pentecostalism\nAuthor(s): Abimbola A. Adelakun\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108831079, 978-1108831079\nSynopsis\nFor 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. .