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The Breath That Remains

A Philosophical Ode to Matter

by Nimi Wariboko ...

The focus of this book is on the philosophy of breathing. It investigates breathing as its point of departure for the study of ontology (Being). It goes on to interrogate the connections between breathing and inert matter, breathing and emergence of life, and breathing and pneumatology. The book is a thinking of breathing as a theological question within the context of philosophy and its ... Read more

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The focus of this book is on the philosophy of breathing. It investigates breathing as its point of departure for the study of ontology (Being). It goes on to interrogate the connections between breathing and inert matter, breathing and emergence of life, and breathing and pneumatology. The book is a thinking of breathing as a theological question within the context of philosophy and its
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Violence in the Postcolony

Entangled Histories of Africa

by Abikal Borah, Toyin Falola, Jill E. Kelly, Amir Idris, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Busani Mpofu, Benjamin Claude Brower, Daniel J. Hoffman, Barira Mohammed0, Nimi Wariboko1, Christopher P. Davey2, Sepetla Molapo3, Ogenga Otunnu4, Meghan Gorman-DaRif5 ...

Where present-day media has depicted violent conditions in Africa as a spectacle born out of political instability, postcolonial scholars have discussed violence as a dialectic of law and disorder, a regime structured by the biopolitical state, or as a performative tool used to challenge ethical and political norms. While the latter approaches rely on historical trajectories of violence, popular ... Read more

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Where present-day media has depicted violent conditions in Africa as a spectacle born out of political instability, postcolonial scholars have discussed violence as a dialectic of law and disorder, a regime structured by the biopolitical state, or as a performative tool used to challenge ethical and political norms. While the latter approaches rely on historical trajectories of violence, popular
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Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria

Beautiful, Monstrous, Ridiculous

by Nimi Wariboko ...

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, ... Read more

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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,
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The Pentecostal Hypothesis

Christ Talks, They Decide

by Nimi Wariboko ...

The Pentecostal Hypothesis is the capacity to resist conventional wisdom in social actions. On a daily basis Pentecostals deploy or enact this capacity through the use of the formula: "It does not make sense, but it makes spirit" in their decision-making processes. This is an alternate way of knowing that is keyed to a particular interpretative understanding of Jesus Christ as constitutive of and ... Read more

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The Pentecostal Hypothesis is the capacity to resist conventional wisdom in social actions. On a daily basis Pentecostals deploy or enact this capacity through the use of the formula: "It does not make sense, but it makes spirit" in their decision-making processes. This is an alternate way of knowing that is keyed to a particular interpretative understanding of Jesus Christ as constitutive of and
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Accounting and Money for Ministerial Leadership

Key Practical and Theological Insights

by Nimi Wariboko ...

This book will help seminary students and ministers with no training in accounting to expand their core management competency and church leadership skills to include basic issues of finance and accounting. It will also provide pastors/ministers with financial management orientation to become better leaders/managers of their churches and organizations. Specifically, this book is designed to bring ... Read more

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This book will help seminary students and ministers with no training in accounting to expand their core management competency and church leadership skills to include basic issues of finance and accounting. It will also provide pastors/ministers with financial management orientation to become better leaders/managers of their churches and organizations. Specifically, this book is designed to bring
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Methods of Ethical Analysis

Between Theology, History, and Literature

by Nimi Wariboko ...

The book is about showing different ways of doing ethics, highlighting a kind of methodological pluralism. This book attempts to relate the difference in methodology and perspective to difference in identity, focal point of analysis, or projects of persuasion. Difference matters ultimately because pluralism matters. This book is a tutorial in ethical analysis and reasoning. Seminarians and ... Read more

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The book is about showing different ways of doing ethics, highlighting a kind of methodological pluralism. This book attempts to relate the difference in methodology and perspective to difference in identity, focal point of analysis, or projects of persuasion. Difference matters ultimately because pluralism matters. This book is a tutorial in ethical analysis and reasoning. Seminarians and
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African Evangelicalism and the Transformation of Africa

by Nimi Wariboko, Esther Acolatse, Tibebe Eshete, Derek Peterson, Blair Bertrand, Yolanda Covington-Ward, Shobana Shankar, Damaris Seleina Parsitau, Andrew Barnes, Katrien Pype, Mariam Goshadze, Afe Adogame, Tim Hartman, Stephen Offutt ...

Series series Race, Religion, and Politics series
A critical examination of the impact of Evangelical Christianity on African societies todayEvangelical Christianity's presence is increasing exponentially in African states and is exercising significant influence in virtually all spheres of life.African Evangelicalism and the Transformation of Africa is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the impact of Evangelical Christianity on Africa ... Read more

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A critical examination of the impact of Evangelical Christianity on African societies todayEvangelical Christianity's presence is increasing exponentially in African states and is exercising significant influence in virtually all spheres of life.African Evangelicalism and the Transformation of Africa is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the impact of Evangelical Christianity on Africa
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Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Nigeria

Edited by Olufemi O. Vaughan, Nimi Wariboko ...

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Nigeria offers an innovative interdisciplinary perspective into Africa’s most populous country.The handbook investigates the making of Nigeria, by shining a light on five pillars of nationhood within contemporary Nigerian society:PolityEconomyCultureEducationReligionMultidisciplinary in its coverage and bringing together a mix of leading and emerging scholars ... Read more

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The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Nigeria offers an innovative interdisciplinary perspective into Africa’s most populous country.The handbook investigates the making of Nigeria, by shining a light on five pillars of nationhood within contemporary Nigerian society:PolityEconomyCultureEducationReligionMultidisciplinary in its coverage and bringing together a mix of leading and emerging scholars
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Lifemaking

Political Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective

by Nimi Wariboko ...

Draws on indigenous African political thought in order to construct a political philosophy that will resist and restrain necropolitics and promote human flourishing in Africa.Lifemaking offers a fresh frame for analyzing contemporary African politics and imagining its future. Rooted in the indigenous political philosophy of lifemaking of the Kalabari-Ijo people of the Niger Delta, this work is a ... Read more

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Draws on indigenous African political thought in order to construct a political philosophy that will resist and restrain necropolitics and promote human flourishing in Africa.Lifemaking offers a fresh frame for analyzing contemporary African politics and imagining its future. Rooted in the indigenous political philosophy of lifemaking of the Kalabari-Ijo people of the Niger Delta, this work is a
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Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing

Literature, Philosophy, and the Nigerian World

by Dr. or Prof. Nimi Wariboko ...

Series series Black Literary and Cultural Expressions
Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing is the first book to bring rigorous literary, philosophical, and artistic discourse together to interrogate the ethics of governance and development in postcolonial Africa. It takes literature seriously as a context for philosophical reflection, vividly engaging the human agency, creativity, and resourcefulness of local Nigerians as ... Read more

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Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing is the first book to bring rigorous literary, philosophical, and artistic discourse together to interrogate the ethics of governance and development in postcolonial Africa. It takes literature seriously as a context for philosophical reflection, vividly engaging the human agency, creativity, and resourcefulness of local Nigerians as
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The Split Time

Economic Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective

by Nimi Wariboko ...

Series series SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought
Aims to construct an economic philosophy from indigenous African thought.The quest for economic development is arguably the most frustrating and tragic dimension of human existence in Africa. As its primary task, The Split Time constructs an economic philosophy from a tradition of thought that is indigenous to Africa, arguing that there are long-neglected resources within African philosophy to ... Read more

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Aims to construct an economic philosophy from indigenous African thought.The quest for economic development is arguably the most frustrating and tragic dimension of human existence in Africa. As its primary task, The Split Time constructs an economic philosophy from a tradition of thought that is indigenous to Africa, arguing that there are long-neglected resources within African philosophy to
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Life Under the Baobab Tree

Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age

by Shola Adegbite, An Yountae, Desmond D. Coleman, Salim Faraji, Rachel E. Harding, Minenhle Nomalungelo Khumalo, Althea Spencer Miller, Pamela Mordecai, Rev. Canon Hugh R. Page Jr., A. Paige Rawson, Nimi Wariboko, Sharon Kimberly Williams, Catherine Keller ...

Series series Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia
Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age is a compendium of innovating essays meticulously written by early and later diaspora people of African descent. Their speech arises from the depth of their experiences under the Baobab tree and offers to the world voices of resilience, newness/resurrection, hope, and life. Resolutely journeying on the trails of their ... Read more

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Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age is a compendium of innovating essays meticulously written by early and later diaspora people of African descent. Their speech arises from the depth of their experiences under the Baobab tree and offers to the world voices of resilience, newness/resurrection, hope, and life. Resolutely journeying on the trails of their
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Accounting and Money for Ministerial Leadership

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