Professor J D Y Peel
MA(OXON) PHD DLIT (LONDON) FBA
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Emeritus Professor
- Name:
- Professor J D Y Peel
- Email address:
- jp2@soas.ac.uk
Biography
A former President of the African Studies Association of the UK (1996-98) and Chair of the Social Anthropology and Human Geography Section of the British Academy (1997-2000), my main external involvement at present is as the General Editor of the International African Library, the monograph series of the IAI.Authored Books
Peel, J.D.Y. (2000) Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba. Indiana University Press.
Book Chapters
Peel, J.D.Y. (2005) 'Not Really a View from Without: The Relations of Social Anthropology and Sociology.'In: Halsey, A. H. and Runciman, W. G., (eds.), British Sociology Seen from Without and Within. Oxford University Press, pp. 70-93.
Peel, J.D.Y. (2004) 'Divergent Modes of Religiosity in West Africa.' In: Whitehouse, H. and Laidlaw, J., (eds.), Ritual and Memory. Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion. Altamira Press, pp. 11-30.
Peel, J.D.Y. (2004) 'Nigeria.' In: Encyclopedia of Protestantism, vol. 3. New York: Routledge, pp. 1401-1402.
Peel, J.D.Y. (2004) 'Spencer in History: the Second Century.' In: Jones, G. and Peel, R. A., (eds.), Herbert Spencer: The Intellectual Legacy. London: The Galton Institute, pp. 125-149.
Peel, J.D.Y. (2004) '"Awolowo, Obafemi", "MacRae, Donald Gunn", "Monica and Godfrey Wilson".' In:Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, Brian, (eds.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
Peel, J.D.Y. (2003) 'The arts and humanities: between history and ethnography.' In: Arnold, David andShackle, Christopher, (eds.), SOAS Since the Sixties. London: SOAS, pp. 87-108.
Peel, J.D.Y. (2002) 'African Studies, Religion.' In: International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences. Elsevier (Amsterdam), pp. 259-263.
Peel, J.D.Y. (2002) 'Christianity and the Logic of Nationalist Assertion in Wole Soyinka's Isara.' In: Maxwell, D. and Lawrie, I., (eds.), Christianity and the African Imagination. Essays in Honour of Adrian Hastings.Brill, pp. 127-155.
Peel, J.D.Y. (2000) 'Yoruba as a city-state culture.' In: M, ed, (ed.), A Comparative Analysis of City-State Cultures. Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, pp. 507-517.
Peel, J.D.Y. (1998) 'Two pastors and their histories: Samuel Johnson and C C Reindorf.' In: P, ed, (ed.),The Recovery of the West African Past. Basler Afrika Bibliographien, pp. 57-78.
Peel, J.D.Y. (1997) 'A Comparative Analysis of Ogun in pre-colonial Yorubaland.' In: S, ed, (ed.), Africa''s Ogun - Old World and New. UNSPECIFIED, pp. 263-289.
Articles
Peel, J.D.Y. (2002) 'Gender in Yoruba Religious Change.' Journal of Religion in Africa, 32 (2). pp. 136-66.
Peel, J.D.Y. (2002) 'La reponse aux critiques de John D. Y. Peel [part of a review symposium devoted to Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba].' Politique africaine, vol. 8 . pp. 209-214.
Peel, J.D.Y. (2001) 'Adrian Hastings, 1929-2001: an appreciation.' Journal of Religion in Africa, vol. 3 . pp. 493-503.
Ehin Baba Peel y'o daa o! May his soul RIP. Professor Peel has left a remarkable body of work that will certainly engage scholars for years to come! I personally admired his hard work and tenacity even late in life.--On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 10:08 PM, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:--Professor JDY Peel passed on this evening in London around 4 pm. He had been struggling with cancer in recent years. We have lost a great man, a great teacher, and a wonderful human being.An obituary will follow.
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