Year: 2024
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Indigenous taboos and rituals have acquired a double-edged status with respect to women’s lived experiences in contemporary African societies. Although intricately different, African women’s spirituality is within the same general frame of African indigenous spirituality, which is intertwined with the people’s environment and culture. Thus, within this intertwined matrix, we discover how taboos and rituals underpin Nankani women’s spirituality. This chapter will analyse some Nankani taboos and rituals to demonstrate that although a double-edged sword, they are key expressions of women’s spirituality. In this chapter, I argue that taboos and rituals are vital to the understanding of women’s spirituality in societies where they do not overtly hold religious leadership positions or perform public cultic rites.
Source: Routledge eBooks
Author: Rose Mary Amenga-Etego
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4405464166