Media, Gender, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

Interrogating the Public Image of Christian Women in Nigeria

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3933095
AutoresEnoch Olujide Gbadegesin (PhD, Department of Religious Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Osun State Nigeria), Kemi Wale-Olaitan (PhD, School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, African University College of Communications Adabraka, Accra Ghana)
Año2022
Volumen51
Número3-4
Páginas328-347
Fecha de publicación2022-03-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Religion in Africa (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-4200 • E-ISSN: 1570-0666
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/15700666-12340208
OpenAlexW4214942699
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas10

This paper asserts that since the Nigerian media is patriarchal, they inexorably present images that give the impression that men have a superior knowledge of God than women. This idea is incidentally reechoing in contemporary Nigerian Christian practices, especially in the age of the new media. The paper examines gender, religion, and media from historical perspectives; analyses the theoretical framework at the root of the construction of the female gender and their representation in religion; and lastly, presents selected examples from day-to-day empirical evidence from Christian organizations in the Nigerian media space with the aim of deconstructing the public image of Christian women in the Nigerian public square. It thus aims to reconstruct the public image of women in religion via the media, showing the importance of equal gender representation. The narrative concerning reconstruction is deeply contextual, analytical, rigorous, and interdisciplinary

Art · Image of God · Literature · Mass media · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Public space · Representation (politics) · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of religion · Space (punctuation) · African history and culture studies · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Philosophy