Gender and African Indigenous Religions

Gender and African Indigenous Religions
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 202
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ISBN-10 : 9781003854852
ISBN-13 : 1003854850
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Gender and African Indigenous Religions by : Musa W. Dube

Focusing on the work of contemporary African women researchers, this volume explores feminist perspectives in relation to African Indigenous Religions (AIR). It evaluates what the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians’ research has achieved and proposed since its launch in 1989, their contribution to the world of knowledge and liberation, and the potential application to nurturing a justice-oriented world. The book considers the methodologies used amongst the Circle to study African Indigenous Religions, the AIR sources of knowledge that are drawn on, and the way in which women are characterized. It reflects on how ideas drawn from African Indigenous Religions might address issues of patriarchy, colonialism, capitalism, racism, tribalism, and sexual and disability-based discrimination. The chapters examine theologies of specific figures. The book will be of interest to scholars of religion, gender studies, Indigenous studies, and African studies.

Religions in Contemporary Africa

Religions in Contemporary Africa
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 235
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ISBN-10 : 9781351260701
ISBN-13 : 1351260707
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Religions in Contemporary Africa by : Laura S. Grillo

Religions in Contemporary Africa is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the three main religious traditions on the African continent, African indigenous religions, Christianity and Islam. The book provides a historical overview of these important traditions and focuses on the roles they play in African societies today. It includes social, cultural and political case studies from across the continent on the following topical issues: Witchcraft and modernity Power and politics Conflict and peace Media and popular culture Development Human rights Illness and health Gender and sexuality With suggestions for further reading, discussion questions, illustrations and a list of glossary terms this is the ideal textbook for students in religion, African studies and adjacent fields approaching this subject area for the first time.

African Religions

African Religions
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 177
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ISBN-10 : 9780199790586
ISBN-13 : 0199790582
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis African Religions by : Jacob K. Olupona

This book connects traditional religions to the thriving religious activity in Africa today.

The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies

The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 3030280985
ISBN-13 : 9783030280987
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies by : Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso

This definitive handbook is the first reference of its kind bringing together knowledge, scholarship, and debates on themes and issues concerning African women everywhere. It unearths, critiques, reviews, analyses, theorizes, synthesizes and evaluates African women’s historical, social, political, economic, local and global lives and experiences with a view to decolonizing the corpus. This Handbook questions the gendered roles and positions of African women and the structures, institutions, and processes of policy, politics, and knowledge production that continually construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct African women and the study of them. Contributors offer a consistent emphasis on debunking erroneous and misleading myths about African women's roles and positions, bringing their previously marginalized stories to relief, and ultimately re-writing their histories. Thus, this Handbook enlarges the scope of the field, challenges its orthodoxies, and engenders new subjects, theories, and approaches. This reference work includes, to the greatest extent possible, the voices of African women themselves as writers of their own stories. The detailed, rigorous and up-to-date analyses in the work represent a variety of theoretical, methodological, and transdisciplinary approaches. This reference work will prove vital in charting new directions for the study of African women, and will reverberate in future studies, generating new debates and engendering further interest.

African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa

African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9781409481782
ISBN-13 : 1409481786
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa by : Dr Afe Adogame

The historiography of African religions and religions in Africa presents a remarkable shift from the study of 'Africa as Object' to 'Africa as Subject', thus translating the subject from obscurity into the global community of the academic study of religion. This book presents a unique multidisciplinary exploration of African traditions in the study of religion in Africa and the new African diaspora. The book is structured under three main sections - Emerging trends in the teaching of African Religions; Indigenous Thought and Spirituality; and Christianity, Hinduism and Islam. Contributors drawn from diverse African and global contexts situate current scholarly traditions of the study of African religions within the purview of academic encounter and exchanges with non-African scholars and non-African contexts. African scholars enrich the study of religions from their respective academic and methodological orientations. Jacob Kehinde Olupona stands out as a pioneer in the socio-scientific interpretation of African indigenous religion and religions in Africa. This book is to his honour and marks his immense contribution to an emerging field of study and research.

Re-Inventing Africa

Re-Inventing Africa
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Publisher : Zed Books
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 1856495345
ISBN-13 : 9781856495349
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Re-Inventing Africa by : Ifi Amadiume

This book reveals how conventional anthropology has consistently imposed European ideas of the "natural" nuclear family, women as passive object, and class differences on a continent with a long history of women with power doing things differently. Amadiume argues for an end to anthropology and calls instead for a social history of Africa, by Africans.

West Africa's Women of God

West Africa's Women of God
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 9780253017918
ISBN-13 : 0253017912
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis West Africa's Women of God by : Robert M. Baum

West Africa's Women of God examines the history of direct revelation from Emitai, the Supreme Being, which has been central to the Diola religion from before European colonization to the present day. Robert M. Baum charts the evolution of this movement from its origins as an exclusively male tradition to one that is largely female. He traces the response of Diola to the distinct challenges presented by conquest, colonial rule, and the post-colonial era. Looking specifically at the work of the most famous Diola woman prophet, Alinesitoué, Baum addresses the history of prophecy in West Africa and its impact on colonialism, the development of local religious traditions, and the role of women in religious communities.

African Traditional Religions in Contemporary Society

African Traditional Religions in Contemporary Society
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Publisher : Paragon House
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0892260793
ISBN-13 : 9780892260799
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis African Traditional Religions in Contemporary Society by : Jacob Olupona

Once relegated to the realm of "primitive" and stigmatized as "pagan," today there is a new acknowledgment of the importance of African traditional religions, especially in its stress on folk practices, communal values, and personal relationships. This volume of fourteen chapters examines the nature, structure, and significance of African traditional religion(s) as dynamic, changing tradition(s). It analyzes and interprets several significant aspects of African religions and explores their possible contributions to national development and the modernization process. It also examines the impact of social change on African religion today. The contributors are scholars from several disciplines (anthropology, sociology, history of religions, theology, literature and the arts); yet, in analysis and interpretation of their data, they all take transcendence and the sacred in African thought very seriously. The newness of this approach is in treating African traditional religion not as a fossil but rather as one of the most important building blocks of modern African life.

Women in Yoruba Religions

Women in Yoruba Religions
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 9781479813995
ISBN-13 : 1479813990
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Women in Yoruba Religions by : Oyèrónké Oládémọ

"Women in Yorùbá Religions discusses the influence of Yoruba culture on women's religious lives and leadership in religions practiced by Yoruba people, covering themes like Yoruba women in Yoruba religion, Christianity, and Islam; women in African-derived religions in the diaspora; Yoruba religion and globalization; and LGBTQ adherents of Yoruba religion"--

Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere

Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 187
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ISBN-10 : 9780791486115
ISBN-13 : 0791486117
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere by : Oyeronke Olajubu

Drawing on a wide range of oral and written sources, this book shows that women occupy a central place in the religious worldview and life of the Yoruba people and shows how men and women engage in mutually beneficial roles in the Yoruba religious sphere. It explores how gender issues play out in two Yoruba religious traditions—indigenous religion and Christianity in Southwestern Nigeria. Rather than shy away from illuminating the tensions between the prominent roles of Yoruba women in religion and their perceived marginalization, author Oyeronke Olajubu underscores how Yoruba women have challenged marginalization in ways unprecedented in other world religions.