Political spiritualities : the Pentecostal revolution in Nigeria /

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Author / Creator:Marshall, Ruth, 1964-
Imprint:Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Description:1 online resource (x, 349 pages)
Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11196930
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ISBN:9780226507125
0226507122
9780226507149
0226507149
9786612239779
6612239778
9780226507132
0226507130
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: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 Pentecost.
Other form:Print version: Marshall, Ruth, 1964- Political spiritualities. Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2009
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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.

Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 349 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226507125
0226507122
9780226507149
0226507149
9786612239779
6612239778
9780226507132
0226507130