Polygamy Re-Imagined and Re-Negotiated: A Postcolonial Reflection on Gender, Sexuality, and Narrative Theology in Africa Christianity

The impact of the Christian message on the family's existential foundation underpins this article. The quest/ion of polygamy has been in public discourse as extramarital affairs where husbands in monogamous unions increasingly "cheat" on wives with mistresses, referred to in modern pa...

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Main Author: Idumwonyi, Itohan Mercy (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press 2023
In: Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 98-118
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Benin City / Christianization / Polygamy / Marital conflict / Prostitution / Narrative theology / Postcolonialism
RelBib Classification:AX Inter-religious relations
BS Traditional African religions
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
CH Christianity and Society
FA Theology
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
NCB Personal ethics
NCF Sexual ethics
RJ Mission; missiology
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