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POWERFUL DEVICES prayer and the political praxis of spiritual warfare.

Powerful 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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: ADELAKUN, ABIMBOLA ADUNNI
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [S.l.] : RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Spiritual Warriors: Powerful Devices and the Devices of Power
  • 1 Aborting Satanic Pregnancies: Prayer as Apocalyptic Devices
  • 2. Rehearsing Authority: Spiritual Warriors as God's Human Weapons
  • 3. The Noisome Pestilence: COVID-19 Pandemic and the Conspirituality of "Fake Science"
  • 4. Churches Going Virtual: Empty Auditoriums and the Essential Services of Prayer
  • Conclusion: Jesus Has Won
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author