Pastoral power, clerical state : Pentecostalism, gender, and sexuality in Nigeria / Ebenezer Obadare ; foreword by Jacob K. Olupona.

Ebenezer Obadare examines the overriding impact of Nigerian Pentecostal pastors on their churches, and how they have shaped the dynamics of state-society relations during the Fourth Republic.Pentecostal pastors enjoy an unprecedented authority in contemporary Nigerian society, exerting significant i...

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Main Author: Obadare, Ebenezer (Author)
Other Authors: Olupona, Jacob K. (Jacob Kẹhinde), 1951- (writer of foreword.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Idiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2022]
Series:Contending modernities.
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