Media, Gender, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century: Interrogating the Public Image of Christian Women in Nigeria

IF 0.4 4区 哲学 0 RELIGION JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-03-02 DOI:10.1163/15700666-12340208
E. Gbádégesin, Kemi Wale-Olaitan
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This paper asserts that since the Nigerian media is patriarchal, they inexorably present images that give the impression that men have a superior knowledge of God than women. This idea is incidentally reechoing in contemporary Nigerian Christian practices, especially in the age of the new media. The paper examines gender, religion, and media from historical perspectives; analyses the theoretical framework at the root of the construction of the female gender and their representation in religion; and lastly, presents selected examples from day-to-day empirical evidence from Christian organizations in the Nigerian media space with the aim of deconstructing the public image of Christian women in the Nigerian public square. It thus aims to reconstruct the public image of women in religion via the media, showing the importance of equal gender representation. The narrative concerning reconstruction is deeply contextual, analytical, rigorous, and interdisciplinary.
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21世纪的媒体、性别与宗教:质问尼日利亚基督徒妇女的公众形象
这篇论文断言,由于尼日利亚媒体是父权制的,他们不可避免地呈现的图像给人的印象是,男性对上帝的了解高于女性。这一想法在当代尼日利亚基督教实践中偶然出现,尤其是在新媒体时代。本文从历史的角度考察了性别、宗教和媒体;分析了女性性别建构的理论框架及其在宗教中的代表性;最后,从尼日利亚媒体空间的基督教组织的日常经验证据中选出一些例子,目的是解构尼日利亚公共广场上基督教女性的公共形象。因此,它旨在通过媒体重建妇女在宗教中的公众形象,显示性别代表平等的重要性。关于重建的叙述具有深刻的语境性、分析性、严谨性和跨学科性。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Religion in Africa was founded in 1967 by Andrew Walls. In 1985 the editorship was taken over by Adrian Hastings, who retired in 1999. His successor, David Maxwell, acted as Executive Editor until the end of 2005. The Journal of Religion in Africa is interested in all religious traditions and all their forms, in every part of Africa, and it is open to every methodology. Its contributors include scholars working in history, anthropology, sociology, political science, missiology, literature and related disciplines. It occasionally publishes religious texts in their original African language.
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