Machine gun prayer: the politics of embodied desire in Pentecostal worship
This article examines Pentecostal embodiment through a study of the way prayer is spoken of and performed in a prominent Nigerian Deliverance church. It argues that the Deliverance churches’ exaggerated emphasis on the demonic serves to re-purpose prayer as an embodied violent performance that is of...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Carfax Publ.
2020
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Journal of contemporary religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 35, Issue: 3, Pages: 469-483 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Nigeria
/ Pentecostal churches
/ Demonology
/ Devil
/ Embodiment
/ Prayer
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RelBib Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDG Free church RE Homiletics |
Further subjects: | B
Demonology
B Pentecostalism B Spirit-possession B Spiritual warfare B Sexual Difference B theologically engaged anthropology B Embodiment B Prayer |
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