Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
A paraphenomenology of darkness allows us to see the brutality of history, the violence not simply of statues, but of the fight over statues.
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Right-wing attention to Coptic conditions in Egypt has historically placed diaspora communities in a contradiction-laden position.
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This series addresses complex ways in which people become attached to particular understandings of the nation and the role of religion in either supporting or hindering that attachment.
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The transition from an authority based broadly on reason to one based on revelation is one of the most consequential developments in postcolonial Nigerian history.
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By continuing the chain begun by Pentecostal laywomen like those we learn of in this book Obadare joins them in refusing to let pastors dominate unduly, in forging space for what is increasingly crowded out.
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What Obadare prompts us to ask is: What happens to a liberal democracy when the locus of power moves from the institutions of the state to the thrones of Pentecostal powers?
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It might be too early to declare the “Men of Letters” as belonging to yesterday.
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What does it imply to rethink the Nigerian society within the rubric of a postsecularity that takes God and the perfectibility of Pentecostalism seriously?
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Obadare’s insightful analysis outlines how new rulerships emerge in Africa’s yet unstable democracies while highlighting the nature of politics, power, legitimacy, and the evolution of democracy.
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What this symposium encourage us to reflect on is how authority is maintained, challenged, and revoked in the modern world, and especially in postcolonial settings.
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