Pentecostal Theology as a Discursive Site for the Weight of Blackness in Nigeria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20162248 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nimi Wariboko (0000-0002-6431-2711, Andover Newton Theological School, Newton Centre, Massachusetts, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 417-431 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pneuma (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-0965 • E-ISSN: 1570-0747 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15700747-03603045 |
| OpenAlex | W2086801901 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
Blackness has become the discursive site for assessing, negotiating, and appropriating the meaning of spirituality as socioeconomic dislocations of Nigeria mingle with an increasing awareness of the “lowly lot of black humanity.” The discourse began with disciplining the body but quickly moved on to the normalization of a nation chosen by God to spearhead the final evangelization of the world and to lead the black race into global technological and economic supremacy. Here I want to trace a line from the ways the body is disciplined to the protocols of race and discourse of sovereignty. In other words, I want to map the movement of pentecostal thought from spirituality that focuses on the purity of the body to spirituality that focuses on the purity of the body politic. Unlike the Duke School, I place the belief in chosenness that permeates the Abrahamic religions at the core of the emerging pentecostal “racial theology.”
Aesthetics · Body politic · Environmental ethics · Humanity · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sovereignty · Spirituality · Theology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |