Auditorium Ivan Pictet
Maison de la paix, Geneva
Across Africa, and well beyond, a charismatic Christian paradigm of ‘global spiritual warfare’ has become a powerful paradigm for interpreting and acting in the world. With its apocalyptic visions, violent language and obsession with enemies, it appears as a particularly polemical instance of Christian supersessionism and expansionism. With reference to Nigeria and the United States, this lecture explores the ways in which charismatic Christianity self-consciously and antagonistically constructs itself as a global force and a mode for the construction of militant subjects and the occupation of public space.
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Ruth Marshall Associate Professor at the Departments for the Study of Religion & Political Science at University of Toronto, Ruth Marshall is the author of Political Spiritualities: The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria (U. Chicago Press, 2009) and numerous articles on the study of the political implications of Pentecostalism and postcolonial politics in West Africa. |
Held as the Opening Lecture of the 2016 Yves Oltramare International Conference, taking place on December 5 & 6 on the theme of Violence and religion in Africa.
The Yves Oltramare Chair at the Graduate Institute seeks to bring a major scientific contribution to the analysis of the impact of the relationships between religion and politics on the evolution of societies and the international system.