Spirit, Structure, and Flesh: Gendered Experiences in African Instituted Churches Among the Yoruba of Nigeria

by Deidre Helen Crumbley

Book Overview

How does having a female body affect one's experience of indigenized Christianity in Africa? Spirit, Structure, and Flesh addresses this question by exploring the ways ritual, symbol, and dogma circumscribe, constrain, and liberate women in AICs.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299229106
• ISBN13: 9780299229108
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"