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

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

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Nimi Wariboko (Author)  

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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. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Nimi Wariboko is Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University. His books include Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing and The Split Time: Economic Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective.
  • Contributor: Nimi Wariboko
  • Imprint: Indiana University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780253066435
  • Number of Pages: 304
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Release Date: 2023-08-01
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Nimi Wariboko is Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University. His books include Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing and The Split Time: Economic Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective.

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