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Yoruba in Diaspora: An African Church in London

Yoruba in Diaspora: An African Church in London 178 Book Reviews / Pneuma 30 (2008) 147-191 Hermione Harris, Yoruba in Diaspora: An African Church in London (New York: Macmillan Palgrave, 2006). ix + 294 pp. At a time when contemporary anthropological and sociological scholarship on African Christianity has concentrated on multifaceted processes of globalizing Pentecostalism, Hermione Harris’s new book is an important reminder that a fresh understanding of the so-called African Initiated (or Independent/Instituted) Churches (AICs) is necessary in putting African Pentecostalism in proper (global) perspective. The AICs were the pride of African scholarship in the 1960s and 1970s, only to be neglected in the 1980s and 1990s because of the emergent new Pentecostalism that captured the scholarly gaze. Although based on field research initiated in 1969 in London, Yoruba in Diaspora contains materials collected and updated until very recently. This book investigates the lives and modes of being-in-the-world of Yoruba worker-students who were members of the London branch of Cherubim and Seraphim Church (C&S), one of the early AICs originally founded in Nigeria. Th e book sets out from the onset to unpack the C&S’s conception and “pursuit of agbara emi , spiritual power” (“unseen energy”), its vitality, and its logic of operation (7). Th http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pneuma Brill

Yoruba in Diaspora: An African Church in London

Pneuma , Volume 30 (1): 178 – Jan 1, 2008

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Brill
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© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0272-0965
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1570-0747
DOI
10.1163/157007408X288000
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178 Book Reviews / Pneuma 30 (2008) 147-191 Hermione Harris, Yoruba in Diaspora: An African Church in London (New York: Macmillan Palgrave, 2006). ix + 294 pp. At a time when contemporary anthropological and sociological scholarship on African Christianity has concentrated on multifaceted processes of globalizing Pentecostalism, Hermione Harris’s new book is an important reminder that a fresh understanding of the so-called African Initiated (or Independent/Instituted) Churches (AICs) is necessary in putting African Pentecostalism in proper (global) perspective. The AICs were the pride of African scholarship in the 1960s and 1970s, only to be neglected in the 1980s and 1990s because of the emergent new Pentecostalism that captured the scholarly gaze. Although based on field research initiated in 1969 in London, Yoruba in Diaspora contains materials collected and updated until very recently. This book investigates the lives and modes of being-in-the-world of Yoruba worker-students who were members of the London branch of Cherubim and Seraphim Church (C&S), one of the early AICs originally founded in Nigeria. Th e book sets out from the onset to unpack the C&S’s conception and “pursuit of agbara emi , spiritual power” (“unseen energy”), its vitality, and its logic of operation (7). Th

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