Women in Yoruba Religions

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 Candomblé,...

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Main Author: Oládémọ, Oyèrónké (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: New York, NY New York University Press [2022]
In:Year: 2022
Series/Journal:Women in Religions
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Yoruba / Woman / Religion
Further subjects:B Amirah
B Qur’an and women’s roles in Islam
B Yoruba religion in the diaspora
B Christianity in Yorubaland
B Yoruba women’s leadership in Islam
B Yoruba women’s leadership
B Candomblé
B Yoruba constructions of gender
B Haitian Vodou
B Yoruba women and social media and internet
B Women and religion
B Pentecostal churches
B Yoruba women and commercialization of religion
B Yoruba women and religious global networking
B Yoruba (African people) Religion
B Women in Yoruba religion
B Muallimaat
B Yoruba women’s spiritual power
B Yoruba women’s Christian prayer group
B RELIGION / Ethnic & Tribal
B Gẹ̀lẹ̀dẹ, Gelede
B Yoruba women’s religious leadership
B African Independent Churches
B Yoruba gender relations
B Yoruba women’s Islamic prayer groups
B Yoruba women in Christianity and Islam in the diaspora
B LGBTQ persons and Yoruba religion in the diaspora
B Yoruba women in socio-economic life
B Mission Churches
B Yoruba women and globalization
B Yoruba religion and globalization
B Yoruba women’s roles in churches
B Santeria
B Women, Yoruba Religion
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Summary: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 Candomblé, 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
ISBN:1479814024
Access:Restricted Access
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479814022.001.0001