Christianity and the Gendering of Personal Names among the Bette in Southeastern Nigeria

IF 0.4 4区 哲学 0 RELIGION
Romanus Aboh, Eyo O. Mensah, Idom T. Inyabri, Lucy Ushuple
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Abstract

Contributing to extant debates on the juncture of naming and gender(ing), this study interrogates naming practices among Bette-Christians of northern Cross River, Southeastern Nigeria, and how they enhance understanding of the relation between naming and the enunciation of religious identity as well as how gender is enacted. With analytical insights from socio-onomastic theory, which explores the relationship between names, culture, and society, we interrogate naming practices as essential cultural currency for identification, categorization, and connectedness. Data were obtained from 40 participants through semistructured interviews and participant observations. We focus on the intersection of naming and spiritual sentiments to argue that the contemporary reality of naming among Bette-Christians illuminates a practice that negates traditional Bette cosmology and cosmogony. We illustrate how the emergence of Christianity has altered the naming patterns and practices of the people, and how these names embody multidimensional connotations that range from religious identity to stereotyped gender ideologies.
基督教与尼日利亚东南部贝特人姓名的性别化
本研究探讨了尼日利亚东南部克罗斯河北部贝特基督徒的命名实践,以及他们如何加强对命名与宗教身份表达之间关系的理解,以及性别是如何制定的。通过对社会经济学理论的分析,我们探讨了名字、文化和社会之间的关系,并将命名实践作为识别、分类和联系的基本文化货币。通过半结构化访谈和参与者观察,从40名参与者中获得数据。我们关注命名和精神情感的交集,认为当代贝特基督徒的命名现实说明了一种否定传统贝特宇宙论和宇宙论的实践。我们说明了基督教的出现如何改变了人们的命名模式和习俗,以及这些名字如何体现从宗教身份到刻板的性别意识形态的多维内涵。
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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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