Impurity and power: women in Aladura churches

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AUTOR(ES) D.H. Crumbley
ANO 1992
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO Africa
ISSN 0100-8153
E-ISSN 2526-303X
EDITORA Elsevier (Netherlands)
DOI 10.2307/1161348
CITAÇÕES 3
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-18
MD5 af84c56ccd07846d7670425f64854ce5

Resumo

What is there about being female which elicits religious rituals of control? More specifically, what is there about menstrual blood which elicits a language of ritual impurity? What is the relationship between exclusion from the sacred and exclusion from power? This article, based on fieldwork among the Aladura or 'praying' churches of Nigeria (1982 to 1986), explores these questions in three Aladura denominations. While these three 'spiritual' churches share similar features in being indigenous, healing and prophesying churches, the status and roles of women in their respective organisational structures vary remarkably. The ways in which an ideology of impurity impacts or fails to impact upon gender and power relationships is investigated, and an explanatory framework for assessing such variations is suggested.

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