Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria: Beautiful, Monstrous, Ridiculous

by Nimi Wariboko

Publisher:

Indiana University Press

, 2024

Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria explores how the sacred plays itself out in contemporary Africa. It offers a creative analysis of the logics and dynamics of the sacred (understood as the constellation of im/possibility available to a given community) in religion, politics, epistemology, economic development, and reactionary violence. Using the tools of philosophy, postcolonial criticism, political theory, African studies, religious studies, and cultural studies, Wariboko reveals the intricate connections between the sacred and the existential conditions that characterize disorder, terror, trauma, despair, and hope in the postcolonial Africa.

The sacred, Wariboko argues, is not about religion or divinity but the set of possibilities opened to a people or denied them, the sum total of possibilities conceivable given their level of social, technological, and economic development. These possibilities profoundly speak to the present political moment in sub-Saharan Africa.

Product Details

• Title: Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria: Beautiful, Monstrous, Ridiculous
• Author: Nimi Wariboko
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9780253066459, 9780253066442, 0253066441, 025306645X
• Resource ID: LLS:9780253066459
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-07-20T12:31:35Z

About Nimi Wariboko

Nimi Wariboko came to Andover Newton in July 2007 as the inaugural Katherine B. Stuart Associate Professor of Christian Ethics. His work focuses on economic ethics, the intersection of business and religion, ethics of monetary systems, economic development, and social theory. He was a strategy consultant to top investment banks when he worked on Wall Street. Nimi has excellent understanding of the working of financial systems, expertise in corporate financial analysis, and hands-on leadership and management experience. He was an adjunct assistant professor of social sciences at New York University from 2000-2002 where he taught the multidisciplinary course, “African Civilization†for five semesters. In 2000-2001, he also served as an instructor at the New York Institute of Finance, a leader in the financial training marketplace. Here he taught two courses, “Security Analysis” and “Advanced Mergers and Acquisitions.†At the Frank G. Zarb School of Business, Hofstra University where he served as an adjunct assistant professor of international business from 2004-2006, he taught two courses, “African Business†and “Introduction to International Business.†He served as a parish pastor in Brooklyn, New York City for over nine years (1998-2007) and planted six churches during this period. Nimi brings to his classroom the practical experience of a parish pastor and a denominational regional leader twice cited for excellence in ministry. He has written extensively on social ethics, theology of culture, accounting, finance, management, economic history, anthropology, sociology, and political science. His books include God and Money: A Theology of Money in Globalizing World (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008); The Depth and Destiny of Work: An African Theological Interpretation (Trenton: African World Press, 2008); Pattern of Institutions in the Niger Delta: Economic and Ethological Interpretations of History and Culture (Port Harcourt: Onyoma Research Publications, 2007); The New Rules of Bank Strategy in Nigeria: A Paradigm Shift (Lagos: DER Ltd., 2001); The Mind of African Strategists: A Study of Kalabari Management Practice (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997); Principles and Practice of Bank Analysis and Valuation (Ibadan: Spectrum Books Limited, 1994), and Financial Statement Analysis: A Workbook (Ibadan: Spectrum Limited, 1993). Courses: ETHI 602S: Introduction to Christian Social Ethics, ETHI 706F: The Theological and Economic Ethics of Globalization, ETHI 711W: The Crisis on Wall Street and the Church on Main Street, ETHI 744/844F: Economics and Ethics, PSYC 753/853S: Clergy Professional Ethics, WCHR 691W: The Social Teaching of the African Churches,