Pentecosmopolis: on the pentecostal cosmopolitanism of Lagos
Based on ethnography conducted in Lagos, one of the foremost pentecostal cities in the world, this article coins the interconnected concepts of ‘Pentecosmopolis’ and ‘pentecosmopolitanism’ to account for forms of cosmopolitanism that are shaped at the intersection of Pentecostalisms and urbanisms. T...
| Published in: | Religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
[2020]
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| In: |
Religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Lagos
/ Pentecostal churches
/ Openness to the world
/ Cosmopolitanism
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| RelBib Classification: | KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDG Free church |
| Further subjects: | B
pentecosmopolitanism
B Pentecostalism B Pentecosmopolis B Lagos B Urbanism |
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| Summary: | Based on ethnography conducted in Lagos, one of the foremost pentecostal cities in the world, this article coins the interconnected concepts of ‘Pentecosmopolis’ and ‘pentecosmopolitanism’ to account for forms of cosmopolitanism that are shaped at the intersection of Pentecostalisms and urbanisms. These concepts highlight the dialectical role of Pentecostalisms in the cosmopolitization of urban sociospatialities, and of urbanisms in the cosmopolitization of Pentecostalisms. This article disbands the ideas of Pentecosmopolis and pentecosmopolitanism into two interconnected sub-concepts of ‘pentecosmopolitan spatiality’ and ‘pentecosmopolitan sociality’--of ‘pentecosmopolitan sociospatiality’. Against the background of marginality in scholarship, I examine the cosmopolitization—the diversification and contrastification—of sociospatial symbolisms, practices and relationalities taking shape in the city at the behest of Pentecostalisms, and in Pentecostalisms at the behest of the city. |
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| ISSN: | 1096-1151 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2019.1650308 |