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Performing Power in Nigeria: Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism by Abimbola Adunni Adelakun is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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. 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. Adelakun questions the histories, desires, knowledge, tools, and innate divergences of this form of identity, and its interactions with the other ideological elements that make up the society. Analysing the important developments in contemporary Nigerian Pentecostalism, she demonstrates how the social environment is being transformed by the Pentecostal performance of their identity as the people of power. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Author

Abimbola Adunni Adelakun

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781009281751

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Political Science