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Pentecostal pastor whose hegemonic power and social prestige in the Nigerian social landscape accumulate at the expense of the country’s intellectuals. But Obadare’s new book doesn’t posit a replacement theory that formulates a direction substitution between Nigerian men of God and its men of letters. Instead, he articulates a new order of elite authority that is based on the influence and power of a pastoral class rather than the rule of reason and established knowledge.
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explores is the sociological conditions that account for the sudden rise to social visibility of Pen¬tecostal pastors. In tackling this question, Obadare argues that the loss of social prestige by the
Nigerian intelligentsia (both on university campuses and outside the ivory tower) is the condition
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Program. Before then, he was a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at the University of Kansas where he was also an affiliate faculty of the Kansas African Studies Center and the Center for Global and International Studies. Obadare is also a senior
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Obadare argues in the volume that
Pentecostal churches and their leaders in Nigeria have become so ubiquitous that they efface state institutions and actors in the public space. This ascendance of Pentecostalism in Nigeria’s fourth republic was the focus of Ebenezer Obadare’s 2018 volume,
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Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria: Critical Interpretations
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Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century
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Civil society, civic agency, and religiosity in Africa
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