No More Glass Ceiling? Negotiating Women’s Leadership Role in Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim

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dc.contributor.authorOluwaniyi, Oluwatoyin
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-17T12:26:05Z
dc.date.available2022-10-17T12:26:05Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses ways in which women negotiate leadership role in the religious sphere, particularly in the Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim Church against the patriarchal religious precepts that deny women space at the level of priesthood hierarchy. In the light of physical and spiritual challenges in the environment, women constitute the majority in any church population and play very active roles within it. Nevertheless, in spite of their size and social role, which should naturally provide expression of identity, they continue to be underrepresented and marginalized at the highest levels of religious leadership. However, in recent times,women have made concerted efforts to negotiate their relevance in either forming their own churches or striving for importance through evolving programs that put them on the leadership terrain. The degree to which they have succeeded in negotiating this role becomes the basis of this study. From the study carried out, within the Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim (ESOCS), one of the factions of the several Cherubim and Seraphim Churches, it has been observed that women do not challenge male constructions of leadership but strive to secure their rightful place in the church within the limited women space. This study is guided by the fact that religion, though concerned with supernatural and eternal is a cultural construct which makes it imperative to examine its involvement in power relations and how power sustains it. This study concludes that in spite of the struggles to emerge at the topmost hierarchy, deep-seated traditional and spiritual factors continue to impinge on their overall leadership goal and until changes occur, women in ESOCS will continue to remain in the marginsen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.run.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/3719
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherThe Journal of Pan African Studiesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVol. 5, No. 2;128-149
dc.titleNo More Glass Ceiling? Negotiating Women’s Leadership Role in Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphimen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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