The Split God by Wariboko, Nimi -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Thinking at the Boundary

The Notion of a Split God The Structure of the Book

1 Day of Pentecost: The Founding Violent Gesture of Splits

Introduction The Violent Gesture of Language Tongues-Speech as Revelation and Reveilation Three Types of Speaking in Tongues Excess and Limit within Pentecost: Another Image of Splitting Freedom Implies a Radically Split Entity Day of Pentecost as Time of Divine Manifestations and Manifestation of Splits Day of Pentecost: The Tension between Abstract and Concrete Elements in God The Split between Power and Glory: Inoperativity of Pentecost Concluding Thoughts

2 Spiritual Discernment: Bathroom Mirror as Metaphor

Introduction Relevant Features of African Traditional Religions Ethos of Discernment: From African Traditional Religion to African Pentecostalism Discernment as Tarrying with the Negative The Face, the Mirror, and the Real of Discernment Concluding Thoughts

3 The Beauty, Skin, and Monstrosity of Grace

Introduction The Beauty of Grace and Work The Skin of Grace The Monstrosity of Pentecostal Grace Real Presence and Split Holy Spirit The Economy of Real Presence and Grace Conclusion: Blended Impossibility and Possibility

4 The Sacred as Im/possibility: Expect a Miracle!

Introduction The Sacred as Sets of Possibilities The Structure of the Sacred Purpose of the Sacred Impossibility as the Sacred The Trails of the Cloud of the Impossible Concluding Thoughts

5 The Impossible Possibility, Capitalism, and the Pentecostal Subject

Introduction Excessive Social Suffering and Pentecostalism Fragility of Economic Life and Pentecostal Subjectivity The Fragility of Social Existence in the New Economy The Citizen’s Boast of “I Can Do It” Pentecocapitalism and God’s Subjects Concluding Thoughts

6 Worship as Pure Means

Introduction A Theory of Pentecostal Worship

Worship as Matterization of Grace Worship as Pure Signifier Worship as Heidegger’s Greek Jug From Means to Means: The Pursuit of the Real of Worship Worship as Kantian Duty Limit and Excess of Worship as Pure Means

Concluding Thoughts

7 Everyday Form of Theology: Between Pentecostal Apparatus and Prosaic Existence

Introduction Pleasures in Worship Use of Language: Creating New Meaning and Identity Sweetness of Jesus’s Blood: Meanings in Pleasures Shopping as Spiritual Guerrilla Warfare Prayer as the Locus Classicus of Everyday Theology Senses and Sensation: Aesthetics of Practice The Miraculous in a World of the Split God and Split Reality Existence and Social Analysis: The Grounding of an Everyday Form of Theology Concluding Thoughts: Microtheology of Everyday Life

Conclusion: Ethical Implications of a Split God Notes Bibliography Index Back Cover