J D Y Peel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 82921 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J D Y Peel |
| PRENOMES | J D Y |
| SOBRENOME | Peel |
| ASSINATURA | PEEL J D Y |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Liverpool |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 111 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 620 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 111 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1963 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Religion and the Future of Nigeria
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 …
Robin Horton (1932-2019)
Portrait
Sub-Saharan Africa is frequently, but unjustly, seen as the periphery of the Muslim world, in terms of both geography and religious influence.By contrast, North Africa is considered to be directly linked to the alleged center of the Muslim world, that is, the Arab Middle East.In fact, Islam has had a presence in sub-Saharan Africa since the earliest days of its history.This chapter tries to redress the periphery bias in the analysis of African Mu…
Time and difference in the anthropology of religion
J. D. Y. Peel's Frazer Lecture of 2000, published here posthumously, presented his early thoughts about the three-sided comparison that would culminate his trilogy of works on Yoruba religion. Working through these arguments would occupy another decade and a half until the publication of Christianity, Islam, and Orisa religion: Three traditions in comparison and interaction (2016, University of California Press). As a historian and sociologist, J…
Similarity and Difference, Context and Tradition, in Contemporary Religious Movements in West Africa
The position I critique in this paper is really a complex of closely overlapping positions, some more theoretically sophisticated or better grounded empirically than others.1Their central thrust is to emphasize the similarities rather than the differences between current movements in the world religions, particularly Christianity and Islam, but also to a lesser extent in Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism. It appeals more to social scientists than to…
George Clement Bond, 1936–2014
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Cross and Scalpel
J. F. Ade Ajayi
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Book Debate
Derek R. Peterson, Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: A History of Dissent, c. 1935–1972. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xx + 344 pp. 344. Maps, Bibliography. Index.The View of Mark A. NollDerek Peterson’s meticulously researched account of intra-African cultural struggle moves its focal point away from what the best historians of modern African Christianity have usually featured in their books. Exemplary works by the li…
Tracey E. Hucks. Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism
Journal Article Tracey E. Hucks. Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism. Get access Tracey E. Hucks. Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism. Foreword by Charles H. Long. (Religions of the Americas.) Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2012. Pp. xxxiv, 438. $60.00. J. D. Y. Peel J. D. Y. Peel School of Oriental and African Studies, London [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: …
RetrievingSpencer - John Offer, Herbert Spencer and Social Theory (London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
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An Author Meets Her Critics
In the now very rapidly growing literature on Pentecostalism in Africa, Ruth Marshall’s book occupies a special place. In disciplinary terms, most of that literature falls under religious studies or history. The anthropologists came later, particularly those from North America, who had to get over their distaste for a religion that seemed so saturated in the idioms of the US Bible Belt. The originality of Marshall’s book is grounded in its linkag…
Un siècle d'interactions entre islam et christianisme dans l'espace yoruba
Sur le marché religieux yoruba, l'islam et le christianisme sont en compétition tout en s'influençant mutuellement - la principale influence au cours des trente dernières années venant du pentecôtisme. Cet article étudie un éventail de réponses des groupes musulmans, notamment la Nasfat, le plus grand mouvement récent de l'islam yoruba. Il montre qu'en dépit des ressemblances entre la Nasfat et le pentecôtisme, subsistent d'importantes différence…
Ramon Sarró, The Politics of Religious Change on The Upper Guinea Coast
Ramon Sarró’s The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast – which was originally meant to be known by its subtitle Iconoclasm Done and Undone – is No. 38 in the International African Library (IAL), the monograph series of the International African Institute (IAI). Its aim is to publish high-quality ethnography, and it is in the light of the changing requirements for ethnographic writing that I shall comment on Sarró’s book. The IAI…
Women and Islamic revival in a West African town - By Adeline Masquelier
Conversion after socialism
The large and sudden influx of missionaries into the former Soviet Union after seventy years of militant secularism has been controversial, and the widespread occurrence of conversion has led to anxiety about social and national disintegration. Although these concerns have been vigorously discussed in national arenas, social scientists have remained remarkably silent about the subject. This volume’s focus on conversion offers a novel approach to …
An academic skating on thin ice
Power Relations in Nigeria
Ann O'Hear, Power Relations in Nigeria: Ilorin slaves and their successors. Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press1997, 338 pp., £45.00 ($65.00), ISBN 1 87882 2861 - Volume 73 Issue 1
Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba
How the Yoruba encounter with Christianity transformed their culture and identity.
Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba
How the Yoruba encounter with Christianity transformed their culture and identity
Adrian Hastings, 1929-2001
ADRIAN HASTINGS, 1929-2001: AN APPRECIATION1 BY J.D.Y. PEEL (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) Our sense of loss at the death of Adrian Hastings is the greater because, six years after his formal retirement, he was still so much in the vigour of his scholarship: he had all sorts of projects for the future, not least for a history of Catholicism in Uganda, which might have been a work indeed. At present Adrian's oeuvre …
Hail Orisha! A Phenomenology of a West African Religion in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Orisha worshippers who were not subjected to forced migration to the Americas in the nineteenth century remained their own masters, inhabiting cities, towns and farm villages in their West African kingdoms. This study uses documentation from Yoruba writings and from the written record of European missionaries to describe the various facets of their religious life. Arranged in the form of a phenomenology, the work deals with such matters as the ve…
Pawnship in Africa
The Realm of the Word
Part One The centre of the kingdom: Kharma III and the word of God missionary labours - the struggle to master the church how the meaning of Thuto changed - status, literacy, cattle and nationalism. Part Two The periphery of the realm of the word: the body of Christians medicine, extraction and prayer the way, the truth and the light - how Christians spread the word interference in matters of belief - rape, closed spaces and colonial complicity t…
Religion in Africa
Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba
How the Yoruba encounter with Christianity transformed their culture and identity
For Who Hath Despised the Day of Small Things? Missionary Narratives and Historical Anthropology
When anthropologists come to examine the role of Christian missionaries in the transformation of non-Western societies, as they have done increasingly over the past decade, they soon become deeply embroiled in debates about narrative. Most obvious and immediate are the written and published narratives in which missionaries report their activities, providing the single most important source of data. But the more fundamental issues lie beyond: They…
Making History
The paper concerns the relations between politics and concepts of history in Ilesha, a Nigerian town. It is argued that purely presentist approaches to concepts of history are severely deficient and that analysis should focus on stereotypic reproduction as a dialectical process in which present practice and representations of a real past limit one another to give a sense of control over the vicissitudes of historical change. Ijesha concepts of th…
Herbert Spencer
The pastor and thebabalawo
1. The Priority of the EncounterThe system of divination called Ifa is among the most elaborate of African systems of divination and occupies a unique position in what is often called 'Yoruba traditional religion'. That it is inappropriatesimplyto regard it as part of Yoruba traditional religion indicates the nature of our problem. For its saliency in Yoruba religion, as that has been conceived by commentators both Yoruba and non-Yoruba since the…
Aladura
Magomero
Syncretism and Religious Change
A superficial view of what happens when a large number of people forsake their former religion for a new one is that some of the old beliefs become mixed with the new. It is a commonplace to hear that folk Catholicism is mixed with pagan survivals, or that newly converted African Christians are 'not real Christians' or 'have a veneer of Christianity', because they have not totally abandoned all that they once believed. Such a judgment, however et…
Understanding Alien Belief-Systems
Aladura
Religious Change in Yorubaland
Opening ParagraphThe process by which African peoples come to forsake their traditional religions for Islam or Christianity is among the most significant and the least-studied features of social change in Africa. It is, furthermore, a field to which scholars of different backgrounds, historians and social scientists, may contribute. In spite of a recent drawing together of these disciplines, historians and sociologists may still consider themselv…
Rois nes d'un coeur de vache
Conversion and Tradition in Two African Societies
Journal Article CONVERSION AND TRADITION IN TWO AFRICAN SOCIETIES: IJEBU AND BUGANDA* Get access J. D. Y. Peel J. D. Y. Peel University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 77, Issue 1, November 1977, Pages 108–141, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/77.1.108 Published: 01 November 1977
Historicity and pluralism in some recent studies of Yoruba religion
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Culture History and African Anthropology
Cloth That Does Not Die
only wears, it does not die, the paradoxical phrase from a Bunu Yoruba prayer, emphasizes the power of cloth as a symbol of continuing social relations and identities in the face of uncertainty and death. The Bunu Yoruba people of central Nigeria mark every critical juncture in an individual's life, from birthing ceremonies to funeral celebrations, with handwoven cloth. Anthropologist Elisha Renne explains how and why this is so and discusses why…
Kings, Titles, and Quarters
This is an essay in conjectural history. Its subject is Ilesha, the capital of Ijesha, one of the larger Yoruba kingdoms, founded probably in the early sixteenth century roughly midway between the larger regional centers of Oyo and Benin. Except for some cursory references to Ijesha rescued from slavery in Sierra Leone in the early nineteenth century, there is absolutely no positive contemporary evidence, whether documentary or archeological, unt…
Ijeshas and Nigerians
Herbert Spencer on Social Evolution
History from Below
1. 1. The Document 3. 2. Translations 4. 3. Interpretations 5. Maps 6. Bibliography
The Chicago School of Sociology
Herbert Spencer
Similarity and Difference, Context and Tradition, in Contemporary Religious Movements in West Africa
The position I critique in this paper is really a complex of closely overlapping positions, some more theoretically sophisticated or better grounded empirically than others.1Their central thrust is to emphasize the similarities rather than the differences between current movements in the world religions, particularly Christianity and Islam, but also to a lesser extent in Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism. It appeals more to social scientists than to…
Ijeshas and Nigerians
African Catholicism
The manufacture and retailing of contraceptives in England
More than a million contraceptives are used daily in England and Wales, the products of an industry commanding over 7,000 retail outlets with an annual turnover of £20 millions. This paper presents some of the more significant features in the origin, development and contemporary status of the contraceptive trade and assesses the contribution of commercial interests, during the last eighty years, to the dissemination of birth control knowledge and…
Contraception and the medical profession
Birth control practice is to-day regarded by a substantial and influential majority of doctors as an important element in preventive medicine and the provision of contraceptive advice an appropriate activity for the medical practitioner. This viewpoint is, however, a product of the last forty years and its adoption represents one of the major achievements of the English birth control movement whose past activities have been as much impeded by the…
God's People
La Sociologie de la religion chez Max Weber
Rebellious Prophets
Religious Change in Yorubaland
Opening ParagraphThe process by which African peoples come to forsake their traditional religions for Islam or Christianity is among the most significant and the least-studied features of social change in Africa. It is, furthermore, a field to which scholars of different backgrounds, historians and social scientists, may contribute. In spite of a recent drawing together of these disciplines, historians and sociologists may still consider themselv…
Aladura
Syncretism and Religious Change
A superficial view of what happens when a large number of people forsake their former religion for a new one is that some of the old beliefs become mixed with the new. It is a commonplace to hear that folk Catholicism is mixed with pagan survivals, or that newly converted African Christians are 'not real Christians' or 'have a veneer of Christianity', because they have not totally abandoned all that they once believed. Such a judgment, however et…
Social Change and the Individual
Understanding Alien Belief-Systems
Aladura
Spencer and the Neo-Evolutionists
Attempts are being made by Parsons and others to revive a theory of social evolution, stressing the continuity of sociology with biology, in the manner of Spencer; this is related to the current concern with the problems of developing countries. Spencer's theory is analysed. His main insight was into the process of evolution-differentiationl- and his explanation of the mechanism-adaptation to the environment-tended to circtularity. His theory was…
Biosocial Aspects of Race
Reply to Beattie's Comment on 'Understanding Alien Belief-Systems
Herbert Spencer, the Principles of Sociology
Aladura
Essays of William Graham Sumner
Herbert Spencer
Okediji's Review of Aladura
A Sociology of Sociology
Yoruba Towns and Cities
Colonialism in Africa 1870-1960; Vol III, Profiles of Change
Herbert Spencer
Religion and the Transformation of Society
Herbert Spencer on Social Evolution
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