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Powerful Devices: Prayer and the Political Praxis of Spiritual Warfare

Name: Powerful Devices: Prayer and the Political Praxis of Spiritual Warfare
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Author: Adelakun
ISBN: 9781978831513

by Adelakun

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210 pages
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
15.2 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

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For those seeking strength in spiritual warfare.

Powerful Devices helps you challenge unjust power.

You gain tools to transform your faith and community.

Discover how prayer and spiritual warfare can challenge power structures and inspire change in this insightful exploration of Christian activism.

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Equipping you for life's journey with Jesus:

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Powerful Devices studies spiritual warfare performances as an apparatus for disestablishing structures of power and knowledge, and establishing righteousness in their stead. Drawing on performance studies' emphasis on radicality and breaking of social norms as devices of social transformation, the book demonstrates how Christian groups with dominant cultural power but who perceive themselves as embattled wield the ideas of performance activism. Combining religious studies with ethnography, Powerful Devices explores Nigerian Pentecostals and US Evangelicals' praxis of transnational spiritual warfare. By closely studying spiritual warfare prayers as a "device," Powerful Devices shows how the rituals of prayer enable an apprehension of time, paradigms of self-enhancement, and the subversion of politics and authority. A critical intervention, Powerful Devices explores charismatic Christianity's relationship to science and secular authority, technology and temporality, neoliberalism, and reactionary ideology.