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Dissent as Restlessness: Essays on Church, Society, and the Performances of Resistance: Theology and Mission in World Christianity, cartea 45

Autor Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 iun 2026
This book examines dissent as multifaceted resistance across religious, political, and social contexts in contemporary Africa and beyond. Using Collins and Skover's framework, it defines dissent through intentionality, criticality, and publicness. Structured in eight chapters the author explores ‘performances of resistance’ emerging from Nigeria’s #EndSARS protests, the Ahiara diocese controversy, parallels between Black Lives Matter and Liberation Theology, ecumenical resistance, youth spiritual restlessness, African Pentecostalism, Pope Francis’s synodality program, and Africa’s inadequate memorialization of victims of violent conflicts. The author argues legitimate dissent often stems from moral imperatives that challenges unjust structures while maintaining ethical means. This accessible work demonstrates how African contexts shape various resistance forms, offering valuable insights for understanding social change.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004756618
ISBN-10: 9004756612
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Theology and Mission in World Christianity


Notă biografică

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke is chair of Catholic Ecclesiology and Ecumenism at the UCLouvain, Belgium. He has published monographs and many articles on ecclesiology, ecumenism, political theology and African Christianity. He is co-editor of L’entretien Synodal: L’élan d'Église retrouvé(e) (Aschendorff, 2025).

Cuprins

Preface
Introduction

1 The Word Made Flesh
#EndSARS Protest and a Theology of Dissent from the Streets
1 The #EndSARS Narrative: a Campaign for Social Justice
2 #EndSARS as ‘Word Made Flesh’: Theology from, and on, the Streets
3 #EndSARS’s Theology of Sórò Sókè: Transformation Begins with the Word
4 Was the #EndSARS Protest a Provocateur to Theological Engagement?
5 Conclusion: Four Theological Statements for Social Transformation

2 Public Disagreement in the Church
Exploring Religious Dissent within the Nigerian Political Setting
1 The Lead Story: Ahiara 2013
2 Assessing Religion and Dissent in Democratic Nigeria
3 Dissent in the History of Pluralistic Nigeria
4 Dissent and the Church in Nigeria
5 Turning to the Ahiara Episcopacy Protest of 2013
6 How the Ahiara Protest May Have Been Influenced by Political Protests
7 On the Legality of Public Disagreement in the Church
8 Conclusion

3 The Legitimacy of Dissent?
Tracing the Mutual Learning Points between Democracy and Ecclesiology
1 Comparing Dissent in Democratic and Ecclesial Institutions
2 Defying the State on the Grounds of Racial Justice: the Story of the Black Lives Matter Movement
3 It’s about Theology and Every Other Thing: the Liberation Theology Movement Narrative
4 Is There Any Case for Mutuality in Comparing Dissent in Institutions?
5 Conclusion: Insights on the Grounds for Mutual Learning

4 Ecumenism as a Form of Dissent
Exploring Intra-Christian Engagement in Nigeria
1 The Relationship between Ecumenism and Dissent
2 The Nigeria-Biafra War and the Dissent of Collapsed Boundaries
3 Historicizing the Christian Association of Nigeria as a Political Resistive Agent
4 Juggling a Double Responsibility
5 Conclusion: from Ecumenical Resistance to Ecumenism as Dissent

5 “Like Shoots of Olive”
Facing the Restlessness of the Catholic New Young
1 To the African Church: What of Your Young People?
2 Pope Francis’ Christus Vivit and the Praxis of Youth Ministry
3 Youth Identity and the Crisis of Spirituality
4 Territories of Reform
5 Conclusion

6 Holy Ghost Fire!
Resistive Pneumatology in African Pentecostal Movements
1 What Is Resistive Pneumatology?
2 Pentecostal Movements Africa: Offsprings of Dissent
3 Ambiguous Relationship with African Spirituality
4 Tracing the Initial Roots of Dissension
5 Manifestations of Resistive Pneumatology in African Pentecostalism
6 Conclusion

7 Of Skeptics and Believers
Synod on Synodality and the Burden of Resistance
1 Pope Francis and Synodality: the Hype and the Baseline
2 For the Young People, the Concern Is Spirituality
3 On the Ranks of Skeptics and Critics
4 Fighting on the Eve of the Synod on Synodality
5 Ideological Polarizations, Pseudo-Propheticism and Ecclesial Critics
6 Conclusion

8 Keeping the Dead Alive
African Memorialization Project and the Resistance to Namelessness
1 From Auschwitz to the Search for Memorialization Consciousness
2 Memorialization Process, Exercised Collective Memory, and the African Philosophical Worldview
3 Evaluating the African Union Human Rights Memorial (AUHRM)
4 Justifying Continental Memorialization, Recalibrating Its Forms
5 Reimagining New Ways of Memorialization in Africa
6 Conclusion
Afterword
1 African Catholic Resistance and the Identity of a Theologian
2 Regarding Dissent in the Cyberspace
3 Theologies for Dissenters and Victims
4 Final Note
Bibliography
Index