Women in Yoruba Religions / / Oyèrónké Oládémọ.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Oládémọ, Oyèrónké,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Women in Religions
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 15 b/w illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on the Spelling of Yorùbá Words -- Introduction Why Study Women in Yorùbá Religions? -- 1 Women’s Family, Economic, Social, and Political Roles in Yorùbáland -- 2 Women’s Leadership in Rituals of the Yorùbá Religion -- 3 Yorùbá Women in Christianity -- 4 Yorùbá Women in Islam -- 5 Women and the Yorùbá Religions in the Diaspora -- 6 Women in the Yorùbá Religion and Globalization -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Questions for Discussion -- For Further Reading -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author