WOMEN’S RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE IN NIGERIAN CHRISTIANITY: A CASE STUDY
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OF PRIMATE (MRS) E. O. BABAYEMI OF JERUSALEM CHURCH OF THE LORD INTERNATIONAL (JCLI)
Adesanya, Ibiyinka Olusola
Department of Religious Studies
University of Ado-Ekiti, Ado-Ekiti
sanyatimi@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
This paper focuses on the religious experience of women in Nigerian Christianity with particular reference to Primate (Mrs) E.O. Babayemi, the founder of Jerusalem Church of the Lord International. It discusses the religious experience of E. O. Babayemi, and her significant contributions and relevance to Christendom and Nigerian society at large. The study adopts multi-disciplinary approach of anthropology, phenomenology and hermeneutics. The significance of this study lies in the tremendous and imposing prominence and huge patronage of E. O. Babayemi, both by the people of Ado-Ekiti and its environs. The paper investigates her activities and practices, her acceptance within the Christian religions and Yoruba cultural patriarchal community. Based on these, the study recommended that the church should continue to embrace women and put a stop to all discriminatory attitudes against them.