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Political Spiritualities: The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria

Autor Ruth Marshall
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 iul 2009
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226507132
ISBN-10: 0226507130
Pagini: 360
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

Notă biografică

Ruth Marshall is assistant professor in the Department and Centre for the Study of Religion and the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Rethinking the Religious and the Political in Africa
Chapter 2. Rupture, Redemption, and the History of the Present
Chapter 3. Revival and the Postcolonial Crisis of Government
Chapter 4. God's Subjects
Chapter 5. Born-Again Ethics and the Spirits of the Political Economy
Chapter 6. The Politics of Conviction
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index