Performing Power in Nigeria

Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism

Abimbola A. Adelakun (University of Texas, Austin)

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Cambridge University Press
07 September 2023

African history; Pentecostal Churches; Religious & theocratic ideologies

Series: African Identities: Past and Present

For decades, Pentecostalism has been one of the most powerful socio-cultural and socio-political movements in Africa. Performing Power in Nigeria explores how Nigerian Pentecostals mark their self-distinction as a people of power within a social milieu that affirmed and contested their desires for being. Their faith, and the various performances that inform it, imbue the social matrix with saliences that also facilitate their identity of power. Using extensive archival material, interviews and fieldwork, Abimbola A. Adelakun questions the histories, desires, knowledge, tools, and innate divergences of this form of identity, and its interactions with the other ideological elements that make up the society. Analysing the important developments in contemporary Nigerian Pentecostalism, she demonstrates how the social environment is being transformed by the Pentecostal performance of their identity as the people of power. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

By: Abimbola A. Adelakun (University of Texas Austin)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9781009281744
ISBN 10: 1009281747
Series: African Identities: Past and Present
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 07 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Abimbola A. Adelakun is Assistant Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin where her research focuses on the politics and performances of Pentecostalism. She is the author of articles in journals including the Journal of Women and Religion, Jenda: Journal of Culture and African Women Studies and co-editor of Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora (2018).

Reviews for Performing Power in Nigeria: Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism

'This book is important for two reasons, one is the way it explores identity and performance of power in Nigerian Pentecostalism. Second, in how it traces this power through social and political contexts including the entertainment industry. The book will be a worthwhile read for Pentecostal scholars in African Pentecostalism and Global Pentecostalism and scholars interested in the arts and culture.' Mookgo Solomon Kgatle, Journal of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity