Women In Yoruba Religions

Author : Oyèrónké Oládém?
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479814015

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Women in Yoruba Religions by Oyèrónké Oládém? Pdf

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.

Author : Oyeronke Olademo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Women and religion
ISBN : 1479814024

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Women in Yoruba Religions by Oyeronke Olademo Pdf

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.

Author : Oyeronke Olajubu
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791486115

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Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere by Oyeronke Olajubu Pdf

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.

Author : Joseph M. Murphy,Mei-Mei Sanford
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0253108632

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Osun across the Waters by Joseph M. Murphy,Mei-Mei Sanford Pdf

Ã’sun is a brilliant deity whose imagery and worldwide devotion demand broad and deep scholarly reflection. Contributors to the ground-breaking Africa's Ogun, edited by Sandra Barnes (Indiana University Press, 1997), explored the complex nature of Ogun, the orisa who transforms life through iron and technology. Ã’sun across the Waters continues this exploration of Yoruba religion by documenting Ã’sun religion. Ã’sun presents a dynamic example of the resilience and renewed importance of traditional Yoruba images in negotiating spiritual experience, social identity, and political power in contemporary Africa and the African diaspora. The 17 contributors to Ã’sun across the Waters delineate the special dimensions of Ã’sun religion as it appears through multiple disciplines in multiple cultural contexts. Tracing the extent of Ã’sun traditions takes us across the waters and back again. Ã’sun traditions continue to grow and change as they flow and return from their sources in Africa and the Americas.

Author : Jacob Kẹhinde Olupona,Terry Rey
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0299224643

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Òrìşà Devotion as World Religion by Jacob Kẹhinde Olupona,Terry Rey Pdf

As the twenty-first century begins, tens of millions of people participate in devotions to the spirits called Òrìsà. This book explores the emergence of Òrìsà devotion as a world religion, one of the most remarkable and compelling developments in the history of the human religious quest. Originating among the Yorùbá people of West Africa, the varied traditions that comprise Òrìsà devotion are today found in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Australia. The African spirit proved remarkably resilient in the face of the transatlantic slave trade, inspiring the perseverance of African religion wherever its adherents settled in the New World. Among the most significant manifestations of this spirit, Yorùbá religious culture persisted, adapted, and even flourished in the Americas, especially in Brazil and Cuba, where it thrives as Candomblé and Lukumi/Santería, respectively. After the end of slavery in the Americas, the free migrations of Latin American and African practitioners has further spread the religion to places like New York City and Miami. Thousands of African Americans have turned to the religion of their ancestors, as have many other spiritual seekers who are not themselves of African descent. Ifá divination in Nigeria, Candomblé funerary chants in Brazil, the role of music in Yorùbá revivalism in the United States, gender and representational authority in Yorùbá religious culture--these are among the many subjects discussed here by experts from around the world. Approaching Òrìsà devotion from diverse vantage points, their collective effort makes this one of the most authoritative texts on Yorùbá religion and a groundbreaking book that heralds this rich, complex, and variegated tradition as one of the world's great religions.

Author : J. Ọmọṣade Awolalu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Rites and ceremonies
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029096760

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Yorùbá Beliefs and Sacrificial Rites by J. Ọmọṣade Awolalu Pdf

Surveys previous works on Yoruba religion and outlines a typology of beliefs, as well as offers an interpretation of religious rites as elements of sacrificial system. This serious study gives valuable material for other approaches to religion-comparative, scientific and theological in addition to providing a point to reference for further studies of socio-religious change and a glimpse into the potential future of the Yoruba religion.

Author : R. Marie Griffith,Barbara Dianne Savage
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0801883695

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Women and Religion in the African Diaspora by R. Marie Griffith,Barbara Dianne Savage Pdf

This landmark collection of newly commissioned essays explores how diverse women of African descent have practiced religion as part of the work of their ordinary and sometimes extraordinary lives. By examining women from North America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Africa, the contributors identify the patterns that emerge as women, religion, and diaspora intersect, mapping fresh approaches to this emergent field of inquiry. The volume focuses on issues of history, tradition, and the authenticity of African-derived spiritual practices in a variety of contexts, including those where memories of suffering remain fresh and powerful. The contributors discuss matters of power and leadership and of religious expressions outside of institutional settings. The essays study women of Christian denominations, African and Afro-Caribbean traditions, and Islam, addressing their roles as spiritual leaders, artists and musicians, preachers, and participants in bible-study groups. This volume's transnational mixture, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space.

Author : George Eaton Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038245846

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Yoruba Religion and Medicine in Ibadan by George Eaton Simpson Pdf

Author : Henry John Drewal,Margaret Thompson Drewal
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253325692

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Gẹlẹdẹ by Henry John Drewal,Margaret Thompson Drewal Pdf

..". an exceptionally rich source for all those interested in symbolic, religious or social studies." -- Tribus ..". an excellent book... fascinating to read." -- Research in African Literatures ..". a volume that establishes the standards by which future works on the masked festivals of the Yoruba and other Sub-Saharan African peoples will be judged." -- African Arts ..". the most sophisticated art historical analysis of a single African aesthetic tradition." -- Tribal Arts Review

Author : Toyin Falola,Ann Genova
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114501351

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Orisa by Toyin Falola,Ann Genova Pdf

Author : Nike Lawal,Matthew N. O. Sadiku,P. Adelumo Dopamu
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy, Yoruba
ISBN : UCSC:32106018575693

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Understanding Yoruba Life and Culture by Nike Lawal,Matthew N. O. Sadiku,P. Adelumo Dopamu Pdf

With a population of about thirty million, the Yoruba people constitute one of the largest single ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa. They are internationally acclaimed for their high art, complex system of government, religion, and philosophy. This multi-authored book written by distinguished scholars like Ayo Bamgbose, Toyin Falola, Stephen Akintoye, Omofolabo Soyinka-Ajayi, Emmanuel Babatunde, H.O. Danmole, Akinbiyi Akinlabi, and Agbo Folarin, is the first of its kind to cover all the important topics and issues in Yoruba culture. Who were the Yoruba? Where did they come from? What is Yoruba society like? What is the role of women in the society? What is the nature of their art forms? What is Yoruba philosophy? These questions and many more are answered in this significant book. (Back cover).

Author : John David Yeadon Peel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015049723722

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Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba by John David Yeadon Peel Pdf

In this magisterial book, J. D. Y. Peel contends that it is through their encounter with Christian missions in the mid-19th century that the Yoruba came to know themselves as a distinctive people. Peel's detailed study of the encounter is based on the rich archives of the Anglican Church Missionary Society, which contain the journals written by the African agents of mission, who, as the first generation of literate Yoruba, played a key role in shaping modern Yoruba consciousness. This distinguished book pays special attention to the experiences of ordinary men and women and shows how the process of Christian conversion transformed Christianity into something more deeply Yoruba.

Author : Aribidesi Usman,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107064607

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The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present by Aribidesi Usman,Toyin Falola Pdf

A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.

Author : Roland Hallgren
Publisher : Plus Ultra Publishing Company
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015017889497

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The Good Things in Life by Roland Hallgren Pdf

Author : Louis Djisovi Ikukomi Eason
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Divination
ISBN : UCSC:32106017040202

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Ifa by Louis Djisovi Ikukomi Eason Pdf