{"id":"https://openalex.org/W217810089","doi":null,"title":"No More Glass Ceiling? Negotiating Women's Leadership Role in Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim","display_name":"No More Glass Ceiling? Negotiating Women's Leadership Role in Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim","publication_year":2012,"publication_date":"2012-04-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W217810089","mag":"217810089"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"mag:217810089","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol5no2/5.2NoMore.pdf","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2764382574","display_name":"The Journal of Pan-African Studies","issn_l":"0888-6601","issn":["0888-6601"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["cwts-core","jufo-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4362724895","host_organization_name":"California Institute of Pan African Studies","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4362724895"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["California Institute of Pan African Studies"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"The Journal of Pan-African Studies","raw_type":null},"volume":null,"type":"article","indexed_in":[],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5067828643","display_name":"Oluwatoyin O. Oluwaniyi","orcid":null,"observed_orcids":[]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Oluwatoyin O. Oluwaniyi","raw_affiliation_strings":[],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":0,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5067828643"],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":2.1419,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":17,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.89785495,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":99},"biblio":{"volume":"5","issue":"2","first_page":"128","last_page":null},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14228","display_name":"Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria","score":0.5307999849319458,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3300","display_name":"General Social Sciences"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14228","display_name":"Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria","score":0.5307999849319458,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3300","display_name":"General Social Sciences"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13636","display_name":"Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies","score":0.14090000092983246,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1212","display_name":"Religious studies"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13109","display_name":"Theological Perspectives and Practices","score":0.0640999972820282,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3312","display_name":"Sociology and Political Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/women-in-leadership","display_name":"women in leadership","score":0.8569999933242798},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/glass-ceiling","display_name":"glass ceiling","score":0.7440000176429749},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/african-traditional-religion","display_name":"African traditional religion","score":0.699999988079071},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/yoruba-religion","display_name":"Yoruba religion","score":0.9210000038146973},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/women-in-christianity","display_name":"women in Christianity","score":0.5699999928474426},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/religion-and-gender","display_name":"gender and religion","score":0.5389999747276306},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/women-s-political-participation","display_name":"women's political participation","score":0.3449999988079071},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/osun","display_name":"Osun","score":0.5249999761581421},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/mission-churches","display_name":"mission churches","score":0.5149999856948853},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/women-s-economic-empowerment","display_name":"women's economic empowerment","score":0.3930000066757202},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/women-s-education","display_name":"women's education","score":0.3970000147819519},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/women-s-health","display_name":"women's health","score":0.4560000002384186},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/gender-equality","display_name":"gender equality","score":0.3319999873638153},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/nigeria","display_name":"Nigeria","score":0.5249999761581421}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777568999","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34311","display_name":"Yoruba","level":2,"score":0.8732497692108154},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199776023","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202875","display_name":"Negotiation","level":2,"score":0.5993062853813171},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C107993555","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1662673","display_name":"Gender studies","level":1,"score":0.595471203327179},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C94625758","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7163","display_name":"Politics","level":2,"score":0.5320326685905457},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144024400","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21201","display_name":"Sociology","level":0,"score":0.49566543102264404},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780410797","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7451781","display_name":"Separate spheres","level":4,"score":0.433495432138443},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2779610281","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17945","display_name":"Public sphere","level":3,"score":0.43306806683540344},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C107038049","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35986","display_name":"Aesthetics","level":1,"score":0.33209991455078125},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C17744445","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36442","display_name":"Political science","level":0,"score":0.3086003065109253},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C36289849","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34749","display_name":"Social science","level":1,"score":0.2355203926563263},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199539241","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7748","display_name":"Law","level":1,"score":0.1838798224925995},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C142362112","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735","display_name":"Art","level":0,"score":0.15703710913658142},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41895202","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8162","display_name":"Linguistics","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C158071213","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7257","display_name":"Ideology","level":3,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"mag:217810089","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol5no2/5.2NoMore.pdf","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2764382574","display_name":"The Journal of Pan-African Studies","issn_l":"0888-6601","issn":["0888-6601"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["cwts-core","jufo-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4362724895","host_organization_name":"California Institute of Pan African Studies","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4362724895"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["California Institute of Pan African Studies"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"The Journal of Pan-African Studies","raw_type":null}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[{"display_name":"Gender equality","score":1.0,"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/5"},{"display_name":"Reduced inequalities","score":0.7578999996185303,"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/10"}],"sustainable_development_goals_aurora":[{"display_name":"Gender equality","score":0.7699999809265137,"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/5"}],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":20,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W636995340","https://openalex.org/W1489438949","https://openalex.org/W1498539499","https://openalex.org/W1569671675","https://openalex.org/W1997754023","https://openalex.org/W2005295020","https://openalex.org/W2046660883","https://openalex.org/W2097227465","https://openalex.org/W2101157755","https://openalex.org/W2122152129","https://openalex.org/W2155093348","https://openalex.org/W2330933762","https://openalex.org/W2339749280","https://openalex.org/W2432129474","https://openalex.org/W2490267896","https://openalex.org/W2531617897","https://openalex.org/W2791240783","https://openalex.org/W2800188814","https://openalex.org/W2800619167","https://openalex.org/W2903863364"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W121297948","https://openalex.org/W300506706","https://openalex.org/W1536846430","https://openalex.org/W4413846538","https://openalex.org/W4286238657","https://openalex.org/W7213865343","https://openalex.org/W4293199282","https://openalex.org/W3213083310","https://openalex.org/W2399397058","https://openalex.org/W7160253132"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Introduction":[0],"The":[1,431],"issue":[2],"of":[3,35,72,144,170,175,180,270,304,385,416,434,440,489,507,518,521,566,578,581,584,602],"women":[4,96,103,125,135,153,282,324,365,398,450,469,501,603],"and":[5,37,40,61,97,109,118,142,183,254,261,265,348,372,391,406,444,453,474,485,509,524,569,589],"leadership":[6,361,554,605],"in":[7,16,66,115,129,157,191,197,242,248,275,279,287,298,310,340,350,356,366,428,461,465,502,556,587,607],"Africa's":[8,49],"religious":[9,145,160,199,277,291,306,358,374],"sphere":[10],"has":[11,457],"been":[12],"a":[13,73,213],"neglected":[14],"discourse":[15],"gender":[17],"studies.":[18],"This":[19,46,147],"attitude":[20],"is":[21,149,308,319,548],"characterized":[22],"by":[23,102,364],"the":[24,44,59,70,82,110,116,139,184,198,223,233,243,276,299,311,320,331,341,345,351,354,360,383,421,438,462,503,519,522,531,541,557,564,582,585,596,608],"Western":[25],"perception":[26,47],"that":[27,52,89,204,215,323,533,552],"views":[28],"women's":[29,56,262,491,536,553],"role":[30,362,427],"narrowly":[31],"as":[32,95,126,138,163,240,538],"emotional,":[33],"mothers":[34],"children":[36,260],"husbands'":[38],"comforters":[39],"only":[41],"relevant":[42],"within":[43,420,540,549],"home.":[45],"contradicts":[48],"oral":[50,570],"tradition":[51],"places":[53],"importance":[54],"on":[55,563,599],"role,":[57],"including":[58],"political":[60],"economic":[62,117],"space.":[63,301],"For":[64],"instance":[65],"Yoruba":[67,158,171],"traditional":[68,122,159,290,368,402,429],"society,":[69],"responsibility":[71,94],"woman":[74],"to":[75,106,189,225,228,238,256,266,344,394,403,410,425,484,500,515],"provide":[76],"for":[77,85,232],"her":[78],"family":[79],"included":[80],"providing":[81],"material":[83],"resources":[84],"such":[86,90,162],"care,":[87],"believing":[88],"provisions":[91],"met":[92],"their":[93,130,408,417,426],"citizens.":[98],"Such":[99],"services":[100],"done":[101],"were":[104,136,283,399],"complementary":[105],"men's":[107],"work,":[108],"former":[111],"achieved":[112],"impressive":[113],"status":[114],"social":[119,249,371],"spheres.":[120],"Likewise,":[121],"religion":[123],"placed":[124],"pertinent":[127,471],"players":[128],"various":[131],"communities.":[132],"In":[133,268],"fact,":[134],"seen":[137],"repository,":[140],"sustainers":[141],"transmitters":[143],"traditions.":[146],"aspect":[148],"particularly":[150],"salient":[151],"since":[152],"held":[154],"core":[155,289],"positions":[156,606],"milieu":[161],"Oya,":[164],"Yemoja":[165],"(the":[166],"most":[167,397],"senior":[168],"goddess":[169],"Pantheon),":[172],"Otin":[173,176],"(goddess":[174,179],"River),":[177],"Osun":[178,181],"River)":[182],"Gelede":[185],"cult,":[186],"which":[187],"relates":[188],"fertility":[190,236],"women.":[192],"As":[193],"agents":[194],"or":[195,328,333,512],"leaders":[196,539],"sphere,":[200,278],"Coquery-Vidrovitch":[201],"(1997)":[202],"argued":[203],"men":[205,338],"always":[206],"worshipped":[207],"female":[208],"figures":[209],"because":[210],"they":[211,216,544],"feared":[212],"power":[214],"needed":[217],"but":[218],"could":[219],"not":[220,326],"control,":[221,456],"including;":[222],"ability":[224,409],"give":[226],"life,":[227],"obtain":[229],"good":[230],"harvests":[231],"community":[234],"through":[235],"rituals,":[237],"intervene":[239],"mediators":[241],"complex":[244],"marriage":[245],"strategies":[246],"engage":[247],"relations":[250],"among":[251],"neighboring":[252],"groups":[253],"villages;":[255],"defuse":[257],"quarrels,":[258],"handle":[259],"medical":[263],"needs,":[264],"heal.":[267],"spite":[269],"these":[271],"powerful":[272],"roles":[273,472,555],"played":[274,363],"some":[280,288,357,459,573],"cases,":[281],"exempted":[284],"from":[285,401,575],"participating":[286],"practices":[292],"(and":[293],"still":[294],"are),":[295],"subordinating":[296],"them":[297],"public":[300],"An":[302],"example":[303],"this":[305,480,496,550,593],"practice":[307],"found":[309],"Oro":[312],"cult":[313],"festival.":[314],"During":[315],"Oro's":[316,346],"procession,":[317],"there":[318],"popular":[321],"cliche":[322],"dare":[325],"look":[327],"peep":[329],"at":[330],"deity":[332],"else,":[334],"would":[335],"die.":[336],"Only":[337],"partake":[339],"rituals":[342],"leading":[343],"procession":[347],"join":[349],"celebration.":[352],"Despite":[353],"lacuna":[355],"practices,":[359],"African":[367],"political,":[369],"economic,":[370],"even":[373],"spheres":[375],"cannot":[376],"be":[377,395,545,560],"over-emphasized":[378],"(Nwoye":[379],"2004,":[380],"1).":[381],"With":[382],"advent":[384],"missionary":[386],"churches":[387,443,448],"all":[388],"over":[389,473],"Africa,":[390],"Southern":[392],"Nigeria":[393],"specific,":[396],"converted":[400],"modern":[404],"Christianity":[405],"subsequently,":[407],"exert":[411],"influence":[412],"reduced":[413],"drastically":[414],"regardless":[415],"size":[418],"(number)":[419],"Church":[422,527],"when":[423],"compared":[424],"religion.":[430],"current":[432],"wave":[433,482],"Christianity,":[435],"especially":[436],"with":[437,572],"inception":[439],"new":[441,481],"indigenous":[442],"more":[445],"importantly,":[446],"Pentecostal":[447,467],"whereby":[449],"establish,":[451],"lead":[452],"enjoy":[454],"active":[455],"shown":[458],"improvement":[460],"gap.":[463],"Even":[464],"male-dominated":[466],"churches,":[468],"serve":[470],"above":[475],"male":[476],"counterparts.":[477],"How":[478],"does":[479],"translate":[483],"represent":[486],"total":[487],"breaking":[488],"Christian":[490],"stained":[492],"glass":[493],"ceiling?":[494],"Has":[495],"transformation":[497,601],"trickled":[498],"down":[499],"Eternal":[504],"Sacred":[505],"Order":[506],"Cherubim":[508,523],"Seraphim":[510,525],"(ESOCS)":[511],"commonly":[513],"shortened":[514],"Order,":[516,558],"one":[517,580],"factions":[520],"(C&S)":[526],"denominations?":[528],"What":[529],"are":[530],"issues":[532],"discriminate":[534],"against":[535],"emergence":[537],"Order?":[542],"Can":[543],"addressed?":[546],"It":[547],"context":[551],"will":[559],"investigated.":[561],"Based":[562],"use":[565],"participant":[567],"observation":[568],"interviews":[571],"members":[574],"Gideon":[576],"House":[577],"Prayer,":[579],"branches":[583],"ESOCS":[586],"Nigeria,":[588],"Mount":[590],"Zion":[591],"Headquarters,":[592],"study":[594],"explains":[595],"hindrances":[597],"impinging":[598],"successful":[600],"into":[604],"church.":[609],"\u2026":[610]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":13},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2016,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2013,"cited_by_count":1}],"updated_date":"2026-07-28T07:46:37.118299","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}