Animating Performances: Prayers and African Popular Pleasures.
This article posits that prayer is one of the popular activities that produce pleasure and animate social life in African societies. Focusing on a genre of prayer called "spiritual warfare" (also called "violent" or "deliverance") prayers, this article explores how the creativity infused into perfor...
| Publicado en: | Journal of African Cultural Studies Vol. 36; no. 4; pp. 454 - 469 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2024
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