Category: Lesley’s Sunday Sermon
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Sunday Sermon #4 How Nigerian Evangelical Churches Manufacture Belief, Obedience and Sacrifice Deconstructing what happens in Nigerian evangelical churches: the role of music, ritual, symbolism, collective emotion, pastoral authority, and the sacrifices demanded of congregants. What is the mechanism through which these elements produce belief, obedience, loyalty, and material giving? The mechanism: emotion is generated,…