USA Africa Dialogue Series - New Book: The Philosophy of Nimi Wariboko

https://cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781531010249/The-Philosophy-of-Nimi-Wariboko

 

This book is about the extraordinary ideas of Nimi Wariboko, a philosopher of global stature, focusing on the interrelated issues of religious thought, human values, and the economy. Wariboko's scholarship has undoubtedly led to a deeper understanding of contemporary experiences of the spiritual, economic, and political worlds, showing not only what philosophies can do, but also how those ideas apply to everyday situations.

 

Preface

 

PART 1: Introduction

 

1. Nimi Wariboko in the World of Philosophy

Toyin Falola

 

2. Nimi Wariboko: The Testimony of Knowledge

Toyin Falola

 

Part 2: Social Ethics

 

3. Some Methodological Similarities between Nimi Wariboko and Aristotle

Peter J. Paris

 

4. Wariboko and the African Moral Imagination: The Unbroken Time-Space Feature of African Religion

Sheila A. Otieno

 

Part 3: Economic Ethics

 

5. Remaking the Table: Justice and Economic Ethics in Wariboko's Economic Ethics

Scott Paeth

 

6. Nimi Wariboko's Philosophy: A Triumviral Harmony of Africanism, Existentialism and Materialism

Chuba Keshi

 

7. Embracing the Body as Capital: The Economic Ethics of Nimi Wariboko

Austin B. Washington

 

Part 4: African Social Traditions

 

8. Nimi Wariboko's Impact on Niger Delta Studies

Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa

 

9. The King's Pentecostal Body: Ooni, the Sacred City, and Disenchanting Faith

Abimbola Adunni Adelakun

 

10. Political Islam and Socio-political Ethics in Nimi Wariboko's Philosophy

'Dele Ashiru

 

11. A Yoruba Pentecostal Look at Destiny and Personhood in the Deployment of Public Goods: A Discourse on Nimi Wariboko's Kalabari Communitarianism, Yoruba Determinism, and Paul Tillich's Theology

Oluwasayo Ajiboye

 

12. Masters of the Void: Adapting the Luminous Writings of Nimi Wariboko

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

 

 

 

 

Part 5: Pentecostal Theology

 

13. "God is Split." Really? Nimi Wariboko and the Reshaping of Pentecostal Studies in the Twenty-First Century

J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu

 

14. Sacred Surplus and The Split God: The Moral Economy of Salvation and Miracle in African Pentecostalism

Asonzeh Ukah

 

15. Pentecostalism and Secularization in the Philosophy of Wariboko: The Logic of the Spirit in the Formation of African Civil Society

Esther E. Acolatse

 

16. Flourishing and Empowerment in Pentecostal Spaces: A Critical and Analytical Engagement of the Pentecostal Theology of Nimi Wariboko

Anita Aba Ansah

 

17. Engaging Wariboko's Concept of Altersovereignty: Pentecostal Friendship and Accusations of Magic within Nigerian Christianity 

Judith Bachmann

 

Part 6: Philosophical Theology

 

18. Nimi Wariboko's Journey into Infinity: Vision, Strategy and Language in the Work of a Pentecostal Philosopher

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

 

19. The Grasshopper and the Pentecostal: Rethinking and the Pentecostal Principle

Adeshina Afolayan

 

20. The Beauty of the Immanent: Dialectics of Divine Presence in Nimi Wariboko and David Bentley Hart

L. William Oliverio, Jr.

 

21. The Split God: Wariboko, Deconstruction, and the Carnivalesque Structure

Ekaputra Tupamahu and Erica Bryand Ramirez

 

Conclusion