Transcripts of the sacred in Nigeria : beautiful, monstrous, ridiculous

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서명/저자사항	Transcripts of the sacred in Nigeria: beautiful, monstrous, ridiculous / Nimi Wariboko.
개인저자	Wariboko, Nimi, 1962- author.
발행사항	Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, [2023]
형태사항	1 online resource (xvi, 227 pages)
ISBN	9780253066442 0253066441 9780253066459 025306645X
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	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.
요약	"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, economic development, and reactionary violence. Using the tools of philosophy, postcolonial criticism, political theory, African studies, religious studies, and cultural studies, Wariboko reveals the intricate connections between the sacred and the existential conditions that characterize disorder, terror, trauma, despair, and hope in the postcolonial Africa. The sacred, Wariboko argues, is not about religion or divinity but the set of possibilities opened to a people or denied them, the sum total of possibilities conceivable given their level of social, technological, and economic development. These possibilities profoundly speak to the present political moment in sub-Saharan Africa"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
주제명(지명)	Sub-Saharan Africa. --fast
일반주제명	Religion and culture --Nigeria. Religion and state --Nigeria. Postcolonialism --Nigeria. Possibility. Holy, The. POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African Politics and government. Postcolonialism.
분류기호(DDC)	201.7
언어	영어
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