Description: "Explores how twenty-first century Nigerian novels engage with Christianity as a locally rooted aspect of postcolonial society. Examines how authors use Christian traditions, beliefs, and symbols to address themes of gender, sexuality, ecology, and interreligious relations in the pursuit of social transformation"-- Provided by publisher.
Brief description: Adriaan van Klinken is Professor of Religion and African Studies at the University of Leeds and Extraordinary Professor in the Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice, University of the Western Cape. He is the author of Kenyan, Christian, Queer: Religion, LGBT Activism, and Arts of Resistance in Africa and Transforming Masculinities in African Christianity: Gender Controversies in Times of AIDS, the former also published by Penn State University Press.
Review Quotes:
"In this brilliant book, literature functions as a source for theological reflection, fodder for social ethical debates, and transcripts of theopoetics. With careful reasoning, multidisciplinary methodology, and ethical sensitivity, Adriaan van Klinken brings Nigerian twenty-first-century literature into the theological academy. Any scholar serious about discerning or grasping the full breadth of Nigerian theology or social ethics must read this book."
--Nimi Wariboko, author of Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing: Literature, Philosophy, and the Nigerian World