Pentecostal Theology as a Discursive Site for the Weight of Blackness in Nigeria

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" Pentecostal Theology as a Discursive Site for the Weight of Blackness in Nigeria "
Nimi Wariboko

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1080789
Doc. No	:	LA124418
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700747-03603045‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Nimi Wariboko
Title & Author	:	Pentecostal Theology as a Discursive Site for the Weight of Blackness in Nigeria [Article]\ Nimi Wariboko
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Pneuma
Date	:	2014
Volume/ Issue Number	:	36/3
Page No	:	417–431
Abstract	:	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.” 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.”
Descriptor	:	counter-racist theology
Descriptor	:	discipline
Descriptor	:	divine chosenness
Descriptor	:	Nigeria
Descriptor	:	normalization
Descriptor	:	race
Descriptor	:	sovereignty
Descriptor	:	technique of the self on the self
Descriptor	:	weight of blackness
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700747-03603045‬