Performing Power in Nigeria : : Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism / / Abimbola A. Adelakun.

• Superior document: African Identities: Past and Present
• VerfasserIn: Adelakun, Abimbola Adunni,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, United Kingdom : : Cambridge University Press,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: African Identities: Past and Present.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (75 pages).

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.