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"How does having a female body affect the experience of women in indigenous African Christian churches? The Christian faith as practiced by Africans has acquired unique traits over time, including distinct gender practices. Some of the most radical reinterpretations are offered by those churches known as "AICs" (variously, African Initiated, African Instituted, or African Independent Churches) - new denominations founded by Africans critical of dogma offered by mainstream churches with roots in European empires. As these churches spread throughout Africa and its diaspora, they have brought with them gender practices that range from requiring women to avoid holy objects and sites during menstruation to ordaining women and assigning them the same duties and responsibilities as male clergy.".
"Spirit, Structure, and Flesh explores the ways ritual, symbol, and dogma circumscribe, constrain, and liberate women in AICs. Through detailed description of worship and doctrine, as well as careful analyses of church history and organizational processes, Deidre Helen Crumbley explores gendered experiences of faith and power in three Nigerian indigenous AICs, demonstrating the roles of women in the day-to-day life of these churches."--BOOK JACKET.
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African Independent Church, Christianity, Customs and practices, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Sex role, Religious life and customs, Rites and ceremonies, Sex role, Women in Christianity, Yoruba, Yoruba (African people), Christentum, Unabhängige Kirche, Frau, Kirche, Sex role, religious aspects, Women in christianity, Yoruba (african people), Nigeria, social life and customsPlaces
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Spirit, structure, and flesh: gendered experiences in African Instituted Churches among the Yoruba of Nigeria
2008, University of Wisconsin Press
in English
0299229106 9780299229108
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