Powerful Devices - 9781978831520

Powerful DevicesPrayer and the Political Praxis of Spiritual Warfare\nAuthor(s): Abimbola Adunni Adelakun\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978831520, 978-1978831520\nSynopsis\nPowerful Devices studies spiritual warfare performances as an apparatus for disestablishing structures of power and knowledge, and establishing righteousness in their stead. Drawing on performance studies' emphasis on radicality and breaking of social norms as devices of social transformation, the book demonstrates how Christian groups with dominant cultural power but who perceive themselves as embattled wieldthe ideas of performance activism. Combining religious studies with ethnography, Powerful Devicesexplores Nigerian Pentecostals and US Evangelicals' praxis of transnational spiritual warfare. By closely studying spiritual warfare prayers as a \""device,\"" Powerful Devices shows how the rituals of prayer enable an apprehens.