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portada Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature (World Christianity)
Type
Physical Book
Author
Language
English
Pages
240
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780271100401

Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature (World Christianity)

Adriaan Van Klinken (Author) · · Paperback

Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature (World Christianity) - Adriaan Van Klinken

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Synopsis "Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature (World Christianity)"

In African literature, Christianity has long been represented as a foreign religion, associated with the history and ongoing legacies of European colonialism and mission. But in recent decades, writers have begun to engage with it in more complex, ambivalent, and at times liberatory ways that are reflective of the religions tremendous growth and diverse transformations across the continent.Adriaan van Klinken addresses this literary shift in the context of Nigeria, a major center of literary production and Christian growth on the continent. Through close dialogue with works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Okey Ndibe, Chinelo Okparanta, and others, van Klinken probes the lived and imagined experiences of Catholicism, Evangelicalism, and Pentecostalism across Nigeria in the wake of decolonization. Taking Nigerian literary writers seriously as social and religious thinkers, van Klinken puts their novels into conversation with the works of major African theologians, philosophers, and social theorists. By foregrounding the creative theologizing that fiction writing participates in, this book demonstrates how these literary texts-beyond merely representing and critiquing sociopolitical realities-also take part in envisioning the alternative worldmaking potential of Christian traditions in the Nigerian context.

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