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"Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria explores how the sacred plays itself out in contemporary Africa. It offers a creative analysis of the logics and dynamics of the sacred (understood as the constellation of im/possibility available to a given community) in religion, politics, epistemology, e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wariboko, Nimi, 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023]
Temas:
Religion and culture > Nigeria.
Religion and state > Nigeria.
Postcolonialism > Nigeria.
Possibility.
Holy, The.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African
Politics and government.
Postcolonialism.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Ambiguity of the Sacred
  • Interlude: Methodological Matters and a Theory of African Postcolony
  • The Sacred as Im/possibility
  • Demons as Guests: Aesthetics of Pentecostal Prayers
  • The Pentecostal Incredible
  • Production of Violence in the Postcolony
  • Chosenness, Spirituality, and the Weight of Blackness
  • Disruption and Promise: The Religious Powers of Development
  • Conclusion.

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