Performing Power in Nigeria Adelakun Abimbola A.
Performing Power in Nigeria Adelakun Abimbola A. For decades, Pentecostalism has been one of the most powerful socio-cultural and socio-political movements in Africa. Performing Power in Nigeria…
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Performing Power in Nigeria Adelakun Abimbola A.
For decades, Pentecostalism has been one of the most powerful socio-cultural and socio-political movements in Africa. 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. 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.
Using extensive archival material, interviews and fieldwork, Abimbola A. Their faith, and the various performances that inform it, imbue the social matrix with saliences that also facilitate their identity of power. Adelakun questions the histories, desires, knowledge, tools, and innate divergences of this form of identity, and its interactions with the other ideological