Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - "The Split God: Pentecostalism and Critical Theory" is Published

Oga Wariboko,

Thank you for this sir! From Nigerian Pentecostalism to Split God, of course you are forcing us to rethink our understanding of this significant religious phenomenon. 

 

Adeshina Afolayan, PhD
Department of Philosophy
University of Ibadan

+23480-3928-8429

On Thursday, February 22, 2018 3:58 PM, Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com> wrote:

Nimi, I join others in congratulating you on this important publication and I look forward to devouring it and mining it for the perspicacious insights that only you can provide. You keep tackling the most nagging and consequential philosophical and religious issues that others are afraid to touch. You're truly an iconoclastic scholar, an inspiration to us all.

Congrats!

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 3:51 AM, Samuel Zalanga <szalanga@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Professor Wariboko,

Congratulations for this new book. I find it fascinating and intellectually penetrating because it is at the intersection of social theory broadly speaking and Pentecostal studies. I will order it when I visit the U.S. in March for a conference. I appreciate the interdisciplinary orientation of the book. I will get in touch with you after reading it. Thank you very much.

Samuel

Samuel Zalanga, Ph.D.

Bethel University

Department of Anthropology, Sociology and Reconciliation Studies,

Bethel University, 3900 Bethel Drive, #24, Saint Paul, MN 55112.

Office Phone: 651-638-6023

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 6:35 PM, Nimi Wariboko <nimiwari@msn.com> wrote:

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

 

Permit me to bring to you the announcement of the publication of my book, The Split God: Pentecostalism and Critical Theory. It has just been published by State University of New York Press. You can order your copies directly from the website of SUNY Press or from online bookstores such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Thanks in advance for your support.

 

 

 

 

Below is the book description and a blurb

 

RELIGIOUS STUDIES / PHILOSOPHY

A volume in the SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought

 

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.

 

"Not since the early work of Thomas J. J. Altizer has a theologian/philosopher opened such a radical new vision of reality with new language as Nimi Wariboko does in The Split God. Through an analysis of Pentecostalism, Wariboko creates a vivid, shocking theology that self-consciously repeats classical Christian orthodoxy (in some of its modes) while transforming it so as to make new sense of Pentecostal beliefs and practices. He mines the language of contemporary Continental critical theory of the psychoanalytical and Marxist sort for resources to express his claim that God is split, not whole, reality both spiritual and material is split, not whole, society is split, not whole, and persons are split, not whole. What Pentecostalism does, he claims, is to unite these split parts into vital ways of living in the face of God without making them holistically coherent, just alive and vital."

 

— Robert Cummings Neville, author of Defining Religion: Essays in Philosophy of Religion

 

 

Nimi Wariboko is Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University.

 

 

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