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Public Righteousness

Abimbola A Adelakun

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English
Pickwick Publications
25 May 2023
Public Righteousness: The Performative Ethics of Human Flourishing is driven by the idea that part of what manifests as a disorderly display of virtue in public culture is underlined by the desire to see a more righteous society and an expression of the will to enact such an ideal world into reality. This book re-structures the ferment of such public displays and fashions an ethic that overturns the ostentatious signals of self-righteousness and the fierce contest of animating visions. This book engages the work of social ethicist Nimi Wariboko to explore an idea of public righteousness. In place of smug superiority and phony pieties, the performative ethics that inaugurate this public righteousness offer an intellectual and moral competence that establishes rectitude and culminates in human flourishing.
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Imprint:   Pickwick Publications
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   322g
ISBN:   9781666738544
ISBN 10:   1666738549
Pages:   226
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Abimbola A. Adelakun is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Performing Power in Nigeria: Politics, Identity, and Pentecostalism and Powerful Devices: Politics and Praxis of Spiritual Warfare.

Reviews for Public Righteousness

"""This collection of essays edited by Abimbola A. Adelakun brings together insights from performance theory, theology, and ethics to articulate a conceptual framework that shifts attention away from the individual moral agent and unto the structures that hinder human flourishing. This corrective to the widespread narcissism that often characterizes public debate of social justice issues cultivates public righteousness over against self-righteousness. By taking human suffering seriously the various authors transform this work into something beyond utopian wish fulfillment--and deserving of a wide readership beyond the academy."" --Rub�n Rosario Rodr�guez, professor of theological studies, Saint Louis University"


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