Polygamy Re-Imagined and Re-Negotiated: A Postcolonial Reflection on Gender, Sexuality, and Narrative Theology in Africa Christianity
The impact of the Christian message on the family's existential foundation underpins this article. The quest/ion of polygamy has been in public discourse as extramarital affairs where husbands in monogamous unions increasingly "cheat" on wives with mistresses, referred to in modern pa...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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2023
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Journal of Africana religions
Год: 2023, Том: 11, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 98-118 |
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Benin City
/ Обращение в христианство (мотив)
/ Полигамия (мотив)
/ Супружеский конфликт
/ Проституция (мотив)
/ Нарративное богословие
/ Постколониализм (мотив)
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| Индексация IxTheo: | AX Межрелигиозные отношения BS Африканские религии (кроме христианства и ислама) CC Христианство и нехристианские религии; Межрелигиозные отношения CH Христианство и общество FA Теология KBN Черная Африка NCB Индивидуальная этика NCF Сексуальная этика RJ Миссионерство |
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| Итог: | The impact of the Christian message on the family's existential foundation underpins this article. The quest/ion of polygamy has been in public discourse as extramarital affairs where husbands in monogamous unions increasingly "cheat" on wives with mistresses, referred to in modern parlance as "side chicks." Historically, polygamy assumed a new turn when Western culture became Christian virtue, thus a civilizing "norm." The demonization of polygamy stirred converted-husbands to divorce all wives except one. This article uses multidisciplinary approaches to theologize and interrogate the impact of Christian encounters on the culture of Benin City, Nigeria. I argue that the family disruption pointedly impacted mothers and created a "new social order" with the commodification of sex and a surge in sex work, workers, traffickers, and trafficking in Benin, and thus it is a form of religious violence. I conclude that the value of African polygamy reasonably exceeds the alternative establishment and proliferation of divorce or serial relationships situated within the "civilizing" Western culture. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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