Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: This paper presents an illuminating analysis of the place of religion in Yoruba social and political life, and why the Yoruba experience represents a great example to the rest of Nigeria, particularly the religiously-volatile north of the country. Combining multiple approaches from historical sociology, the sociology of religlon, political history and the public lives of critical political and religious agents over a period of about a century of Yoruba history, the article explains why the Yoruba case is an exemplar in religious harmony. He argues that the Yoruba are constantly pressed towards olaju (modernity/development/progress) which makes cross-cutting communal belonging more salient, thus ensuring that the Yoruba constantly mobilize both religious and secular institutions and processes in the all-embracing project of olaju.
Source: Yoruba Studies Review
Author: J.D.Y. Peel
Language: English
Subfield: General Social Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4205474687