When Women Are Central to African Religious History: On Power, Prophecy, and Memory
This article examines the centrality of women's voices in Robert Baum's West Africa's Women of God, where African women emerge as prophetic figures and leaders in their regions, shaping both the political and religious scenes under colonial France. By recovering these women's sto...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
2018
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Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 130-133 |
| Review of: | West Africa's women of God (Bloomington : Indiana Univ. Press, 2016) (Marouan, Maha)
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BB Indigenous religions CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KCD Hagiography; saints NBE Anthropology RB Church office; congregation TK Recent history |
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| Summary: | This article examines the centrality of women's voices in Robert Baum's West Africa's Women of God, where African women emerge as prophetic figures and leaders in their regions, shaping both the political and religious scenes under colonial France. By recovering these women's stories, Baum is able to show how the colonial authority systemically attempted to discount the leadership and prophetic powers of these women, constraining them to private space and to rigid gender roles. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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