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English
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Gendered Dynamics and Institutions within Nigerian Mormonism
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Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
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London
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Routledge
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464-479
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“This chapter seeks to highlight how the gender ideology of Nigerian Latter-day Saints has resonated against both indigenous worldviews as well as the post-independence present, producing an ambivalent system of gender construction that both builds upon and defies colonial gender scaffolding…
“Proper analysis of Latter-day Saint affiliation and gender identity in Nigeria requires that scholars complicate pristine notions of indigenous-ness, and, at the very least, reject that ‘indigenous’ is a stable category, untouched by external forces. Scholars such as Chielezona Eze, Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Achille Mbembe have challenged scholars to reject ‘nativism’ in favor of an Afro-centered identity capable of incorporating the full range of human experiences while retaining their African-ness. Derek Peterson has written of Christian conversions in East Africa that he seeks to engage the ‘technologies by which people are dislodged from their native provinces and propelled to live across linguistic and cultural frontiers’; in a similar vein, this chapter will demonstrate how mutually reinforcing gender norms have reinforced each other in the importation of Latter-day Saint theology into Nigerian lives through what Peterson has styled an ‘infrastructure of cosmopolitanism’: in this instance, the process by which American gendered constructs mixed and mingled with indigenous Nigeria’ milieus. In this regard, chroniclers must resist the temptation to dismiss Latter-day Saint identity as ‘un-African.’ By placing individual Africans at the center of their knowledge production, scholars acknowledge the individual full capacity to embrace layered identities not easily simplified—including the capacity to embrace an American-style religiosity and foreign gendered constructs (Eze, 2014; Appiah, 1992; Mbembe, 2002; Peterson, 2012).” [Author] -
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