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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.
This volume explores the lives of women around the world from the
perspective of the New and Africana faiths they practice. This
probing and thought-provoking series of essays brings together in
one volume the multifaceted experiences of women in the New and
Africana religions as practiced today. With this work, religion
becomes a lens for examining the lives of women of diverse
ethnicities and nationalities across the social spectrum. In Women
and New and Africana Religions, readers hear from women from a
number of religious/spiritual persuasions around the world,
including Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, South America, and North
America. These voices form the core of remarkable explorations of
family and environment, social and spiritual empowerment, sexuality
and power, and ways in which worldview informs roles in religion
and society. Each essay includes scene-setting historical and
social background information and fascinating insights from
renowned scholars sharing their own research and firsthand
experiences with their subjects.
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