Women in Yoruba Religions

by Oyèrónké Oládém?

Publisher:

NYU Press

, 2023

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.

Product Details

• Title: Women in Yoruba Religions
• Author: Oyèrónké Oládém?
• Publisher: NYU Press
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781479814015, 9781479813995, 1479813990, 1479814016
• Resource ID: LLS:9781479814015
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-09T16:05:57Z

About the Author

Oyèrónké Oládém? is Professor of Comparative Religious Studies, Department of Religions, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. She is the author of Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere.