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- Title
Eating from Many Dishes: Polygamy Reconsidered.
- Authors
OROBATOR, AGBONKHIANMEGHE E.
- Abstract
This article explores the practice of polygamy in Africa and analyzes the arguments for and against. Considered a pastoral challenge, the responses of Christianity range from ambiguity through accommodation to opposition. Polygamy affects women in ways that justify giving prominence to their voices in the debate about its implications. This article proposes a view of polygamy as an asymmetrical system that devolves privileges and entitlements to men in relation to women. Further, it considers pastoral options that include empowerment of women, compassionate attitude toward women in polygamous situations, and ecumenical convergences with other ecclesial traditions.
- Subjects
POLYGAMY &; Christianity; MAN-woman relationships; SOCIAL conditions of women; CHRISTIANITY; RELIGION
- Publication
Concilium (00105236), 2016, Issue 2, p27
- ISSN
0010-5236
- Publication type
Article