Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria: Beautiful, Monstrous, Ridiculous

Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria explores how the sacred plays itself out in contemporary Africa. It offers a creative analysis of the logics and dynamics of the sacred (understood as the constellation of im/possibility available to a given community) in religion, politics, epistemology, economic development, and reactionary violence. Using the tools of philosophy, postcolonial criticism, political theory, African studies, religious studies, and cultural studies, Wariboko reveals the intricate connections between the sacred and the existential conditions that characterize disorder, terror, trauma, despair, and hope in the postcolonial Africa. The sacred, Wariboko argues, is not about religion or divinity but the set of possibilities opened to a people or denied them, the sum total of possibilities conceivable given their level of social, technological, and economic development. These possibilities profoundly speak to the present political moment in sub-Saharan Africa.

History

Wariboko, Nimi

World

Indiana University Press

Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeriaexplores how the sacred plays itself out in contemporary Africa. It offers a creative analysis of the logics and dynamics of the sacred (understood as the constellation of im/possibility available to a given community) in religion, politics, epistemology, economic development, and reactionary violence. Using the tools of philosophy, postcolonial criticism, political theory, African studies, religious studies, and cultural studies, Wariboko reveals the intricate connections between the sacred and the existential conditions that characterize disorder, terror, trauma, despair, and hope in the postcolonial Africa. The sacred, Wariboko argues, is not about religion or divinity but the set of possibilities opened to a people or denied them, the sum total of possibilities conceivable given their level of social, technological, and economic development. These possibilities profoundly speak to the present political moment in sub-Saharan Africa.

God and Money: A Theology of Money in a Globalizing World

Making a case for a denationalized global currency as an alternative to the dollar, euro, and yen as the world vehicular and reserve currencies, God and Money explores the significance and theological-ethical implications of money as a social relation in the light of the dynamic relations of the triune God. Wariboko deftly analyzes the dynamics at work in the global monetary system and argues that the monarchical-currency structure of the dollar, euro, and yen may be moving toward a trinitarian structure of a democratic world currency.

Business & Money

Economics

Lexington Books

The Pentecostal Manifestos series aims to speak for and to a rising, outward-looking generation of Pentecostal scholarship. Written by both established and newly emerging scholars, the various "manifesto" volumes are creative statements, marked by rigorous theological scholarship, reflecting a distinctly Pentecostal engagement with wider themes and concerns in Christian thought today.

The Pentecostal Principle: Ethical Methodology in New Spirit (Pentecostal Manifestos (PM))

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Offers a critical Pentecostal philosophy of God that challenges orthodox Christianity. Although Pentecostalism is generally considered a conservative movement, in The Split God Nimi Wariboko shows that its operative everyday notion of God is a radical one that poses, under cover of loyalty, a challenge to orthodox Christianity. He argues that the image of God that arises out of the everyday practices of Pentecostalism is a split God―a deity harboring a radical split that not only destabilizes and prevents God himself from achieving ontological completeness but also conditions and shapes the practices and identities of Pentecostal believers. Drawing from the work of Slavoj Žižek, Jacques Lacan, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Giorgio Agamben, among others, Wariboko presents a close reading of everyday Pentecostal practices, and in doing so, uncovers and presents a sophisticated conversation between radical continental philosophy and everyday forms of spirituality. By de-particularizing Pentecostal studies and Pentecostalism, Wariboko broadens our understanding of the intellectual aspects of the global Pentecostal and Charismatic movements.

The Split God: Pentecostalism and Critical Theory (Suny Series in Theology and Continental Thought)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

State Univ of New York Pr

The Split God (Suny Series in Theology and Continental Thought)

State University of New York Press

The Split Economy: Saint Paul Goes to Wall Street (Suny Series in Theology and Continental Thought)

Product Description 
Starting with Marx and Freud, scholars have attempted to identify the primary ethical challenge of capitalism. They have named injustice, inequality, repression, exploitative empires, and capitalism's psychic hold over all of us, among other ills. Nimi Wariboko instead argues that the core ethical problem of capitalism lies in the split nature of the modern economy, an economy divided against itself. Production is set against finance, consumption against saving, and the future against the present. As the rich enjoy their lifestyle, their fellow citizens live in servitude. The economy mimics the structure of our human subjectivity as Saint Paul theorizes in Romans 7: the law constitutes the subject as split, traversed by negativity. The economy is split, shot through with a fundamental antagonism. This fundamental negativity at the core of the economy disturbs its stability and identity, generating its destructive drive. 
The Split Economy develops a robust theoretical framework at the intersection of continental philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, theology, and political economy to reveal a fundamental dynamic at the heart of capitalism. 
 Review 
This is a very welcome and important book that makes significant and original contributions to psychoanalytic theory, ontology, receptions of Pauline messianism, and political critiques of finance capitalism. I predict that it will be widely recognized as making crucial advances in several contemporary conversations. -- Ward Blanton, author of 
A Materialism for the Masses: Saint Paul and the Philosophy of Undying Life 
 About the Author 
Nimi Wariboko is Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University. His many books include 
The Split God: Pentecostalism and Critical Theory, also published by SUNY Press; 
Economics in Spirit and Truth: A Moral Philosophy of Finance; and 
God and Money: A Theology of Money in a Globalizing World.

The Split Economy: Saint Paul Goes to Wall Street (SUNY Series in Theology and Continental Thought)

Draws on philosophy, economics, theology, and psychoanalytic theory to reveal a fundamental dynamic of capitalism.

The Split Time: Economic Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective (Suny in Theology and Continental Thought)

Lifemaking: Political Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective

Africa

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Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria: Beautiful, Monstrous, Ridiculous

Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria: Beautiful, Monstrous, Ridiculous

God and Money: A Theology of Money in a Globalizing World

The Pentecostal Principle: Ethical Methodology in New Spirit (Pentecostal Manifestos (PM))

The Split God: Pentecostalism and Critical Theory (Suny Series in Theology and Continental Thought)

The Split God (Suny Series in Theology and Continental Thought)

The Split Economy: Saint Paul Goes to Wall Street (SUNY Series in Theology and Continental Thought)

The Split Economy: Saint Paul Goes to Wall Street (Suny Series in Theology and Continental Thought)

The Split Time: Economic Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective (Suny in Theology and Continental Thought)

Lifemaking: Political Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective