WARFARE, WOMEN AND SPIRITUALITY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BIBLICAL DEBORAH AND MOREMI OF ILE-IFE
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2017
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FACULTY OF ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN, NIGERIA
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Comparison is a research method with merits and widespread function. As a methodic strategy, comparison plays an important part in the branches of all the humanities. The purpose of this paper is to explore this methodic strategy in a systematic and structured manner. It involves a comparative study within the framework of gender and spirituality using warfare as the nexus. Warfare is stereotypically believed to be the area of the men folk but women are the victims of most of these warfare. They often lose their husbands, children or even themselves. This paper looked at two enigmatic women in antiquity. Both of them were involved in warfare at dire times in the history of the existence of their people at an early age. Arising from the comparative religious method, the paper utilized gender and spirituality theories in the elucidation of the paper. It was discovered that the women, though lived far apart from each other, in different locations have several things in common and also differ in other areas. It was discovered that the cultural interpretation of their gender greatly influenced their person, but each, as a result of their spirituality overcame challenges confronting them to be protagonists in areas that are traditionally not expected of their gender. Paper concludes with a recommendation for today’s woman to take these women as paradigms with a view to making meaningful contributions to their societies.
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TWO WOMEN
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SPIRITUALITY, WARFARE, WOMEN, MOREMI, DEBORAH, YORUBA
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ALORE: Ilorin Journal of the Humanities