The Yoruba and Religious Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3932127 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gary Lynn Comstock (1University of Chicago Divinity School, USA), Gary Comstock (0000-0003-3134-655X, University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 1979-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religion in Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4200 • E-ISSN: 1570-0666 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1581022 |
| OpenAlex | W4256537267 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
THE YORUBA AND RELIGIOUS CHANGE BY GARY LYNN COMSTOCK (University of Chicago Divinity School, USA) Introduction Of all the societies in sub-saharan Africa, the Yoruba of south- western Nigeria are one of the most extensively studied native groups. 1 Consequently, these Yoruba materials promise to be a suf- ficiently rigorous testing ground for certain comprehensive theoretical typologies in history and sociology of religion. This paper tests some recent paradigms for dealing with religious change against the evidence of Yoruba studies. Since the broad outlines of Yoruba history, religion and societal structure are not only readily available but widely familiar, I
Anthropology of religion · Archaeology · Divinity · History of religions · Linguistics · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Yoruba · Anthropology · History · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2022 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |