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Bolaji Bateye, lecturer of religious studies at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, will present “Women and Yoruba Religion” 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9 in Kirby Hall of Civil Rights room 104. The event is free and open to the public.
“Dr. Bateye is a young African scholar who brings first-hand research experience to her study of African traditional religions and Christianity in Africa,” says event organizer Robin Rinehart, associate professor of religious studies.
The Yoruba people inhabit southwestern Nigeria and parts of Benin and Togo. Most of the 15 million people live in the tropical forest belt. Yoruba who were taken to the Americas in the mid-18th century slave trade were settled in Brazil and Cuba, where elements of Yoruba culture and language still exist.
Bateye’s research interests include women in religion and society, new generation churches, female religious leadership, and women in Yoruba orature. She has shared her work at conferences in South Africa, Thailand, Germany, the Netherlands, and Australia. She earned her Ph.D. in religious studies in 2001 from ObafemiAwolowoUniversity.
The lecture is sponsored by the religious studies department under the auspices of the Lyman Coleman Fund and Women’s Studies program.