Women in Yoruba Religions (eBook)

Oyèrónké Oládémọ (Autor)

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2022
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-1401-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Uncovers the influence of Yoruba culture on women's religious lives and leadership in religions practiced by Yoruba people Women in Yoruba Religions examines the profound influence of Yoruba culture in Yoruba religion, Christianity, Islam, and Afro-Diasporic religions such as Santeria and Candomble, placing gender relations in historical and social contexts. While the coming of Christianity and Islam to Yorubaland has posed significant challenges to Yoruba gender relations by propagating patriarchal gender roles, the resources within Yoruba culture have enabled women to contest the full acceptance of those new norms. Oyeronke Olademo asserts that Yoruba women attain and wield agency in family and society through their economic and religious roles, and Yoruba operate within a system of gender balance, so that neither of the sexes can be subsumed in the other. Olademo utilizes historical and phenomenological methods, incorporating impressive data from interviews and participant-observation, showing how religion is at the core of Yoruba lived experiences and is intricately bound up in all sectors of daily life in Yorubaland and abroad in the diaspora.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.7.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Women in Religions
• Reihe/Serie: Women in Religions
• Zusatzinfo: 15 b/w illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Schlagworte: African independent churches • àjẹ́, aje • Amirah • arugbá, arugba • Candomblé • challenges to Yoruba women’s agency in Christianity and Islam • Christianity in Yorubaland • complementarity • complementary gender relations • Gẹ̀lẹ̀dẹ, Gelede • globalization and Yoruba women • Haitian Vodou • interactions of Yoruba culture and Islam • iyanifa and initiation debates in Yoruba diaspora • LGBTQ persons and Yoruba religion in the diaspora • media and Yoruba religion • Mission Churches • Motherhood • Muallimaat • Pentecostal Churches • priestesses of Erinle • priestesses of Obatala • Qur’an and women’s roles in Islam • Santería • transatlantic slave trade and Yoruba religion • women in African diaspora religions • Women in Yoruba religion • women’s agency in Yoruba religion • women’s agency in Yoruba religion in the diaspora • Yoruba constructions of gender • Yoruba gender relations • Yorubaland • Yoruba religion and globalization • Yoruba religion in the diaspora • Yoruba women and commercialization of religion • Yoruba women and globalization • Yoruba women and religious global networking • Yoruba women and social media and internet • Yoruba women in Christianity and Islam in the diaspora • Yoruba women in socio-economic life • Yoruba women’s Christian prayer group • Yoruba women’s Islamic prayer groups • Yoruba women’s leadership • Yoruba women’s leadership in Islam • Yoruba women’s religious leadership • Yoruba women’s roles in churches • Yoruba women’s spiritual power
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-1401-6 / 1479814016
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-1401-5 / 9781479814015