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AAS/WST 240 — Women in African Society

Examination of roles and status of women in traditional and contemporary African societies, as well as the impact of international organizations and globalization

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AAS/WST 240 — Women in African Society

MODULE 10- African Women and Religion: ATR, Christianity, Islam, and Syncretism

Readings:

  • John Mbiti – “The Role of Women in African Traditional Religions”
  • Kenneth Kojo Anti – “Women in African Traditional Religions”
  • Tayannah Lee McQuillar – “The Sibyls Oraculum: the Oracle of the Black Doves” 
  • Kwekudee – “Mami Wata: the Sacred Female African Water Deity”
  • Fulata Lusungu Moyo “Religion, Spirituality and Being a Woman in Africa: Gender Construction within the African Religio-Cultural Experiences”
  • Agadjanian. “Women’s Religious Authority in a Sub-Saharan Setting: Dialectics of Empowerment and Dependency”
  • Clifford Owusu-Gyamfi – The African Woman in Discussion”
  • John Hannah –“Alice Lenshina and her Lumpa Church”

Videos:

  • Amanda Gcabashe—“My Life as a Traditional Healer in the 21st Century”

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Modules

  • MODULE 1 — General Introduction to the Course: Syllabus Debunking Myths, Dispelling Stereotypes, and Correcting Terms about African Women
  • MODULE 2 — Women in Changing African Families: Life Cycle, Marriage, Motherhood
  • MODULE 3 – Women and African Masculinities
  • MODULE 4 — Women in African Rural Economies
  • MODULE 5 – Women and Urban Economies: Formal, Informal, Global
  • MODULE 6 — African Women and Education
  • MODULE 7 – Women, Art, Music, Film, Performance, literature, Oral Traditions
  • MODULE 8 – African Women and Health
  • MODULE 9 – Women and the Environment
  • MODULE 10- African Women and Religion: ATR, Christianity, Islam, and Syncretism
  • MODULE 11 — African Women in Politics: historical and contemporary perspectives
  • MODULE 12 — Women’s Human Rights/African Feminisms/African Womanisms
  • MODULE 13 – Globalization: African Women Migration Experience
  • MODULE 14 — Peace and Security: African Women in Transnational Perspective
  • MODULE 15 – African Women and International Organization
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