Obituary: Professor J. D. Y. Peel

[Toyin Falola]

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.

Toyin Falola

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May his soul rest in perfect peace. 
Prof. Segun Ogungbemi

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[Jimoh Oriyomi]

So sad. I met him in London in 2013 when I was with Birbeck college. Another iroko tree is gone.

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[Olufunke Adeboye]

I received the news of the death of Prof. JDY Peel with great shock. He was such a great scholar. I met him through the late Prof JF Ade-Ajayi, who supervised my PhD thesis. John was very close to the Ajayi family. He read drafts of my PhD thesis in the early 90s and gave me very useful suggestions for revision. Since then, he has been a very worthy mentor and dear friend, encouraging me in my career at very turn. I have had very rewarding intellectual exchanges with him. John was a very fine scholar. We shall all miss him.

May God comfort his family and other members of the Africanist community.

 

Olufunke Adeboye, Ph.D

 Professor and Head, 

Department of History and Strategic Studies, 

University of Lagos, 

Nigeria.

[Abidogun, Jamaine M]

This is sad news indeed.  The passing of a legend in African Religion Studies.

 

Wishing his soul and his family peace and wellbeing.

 

Thank you for sharing,

Jamaine Abidogun

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[Michael Afolayan]

What a loss! A big one indeed. I have somewhere on my desk a paper on Yoruba religion and Islam, which he wrote and sent to me a short while ago, wanting my feedback. Alas, I never did. What a shame! 

May those Baba JDY left behind be comforted. That's one jumbo tree pulled out of the endangered forest of Africa's academy. Wow!!!

Michael O. Afolayan

[Bola Dauda]

Yes, he was a great teacher, a great mentor, and a great friend. May his Soul rest in peace. Bola Dauda

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[Bitrus Gwamna]

May his soul rest in peace.

Bitrus

[Oyeronke Oyewumi]

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.

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Professor J D Y Peel

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Department of Anthropology and Sociology

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Professor J D Y Peel

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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.

My research career began in the mid-1960s with field research on indigenous African churches among the Yoruba of south-western Nigeria. I did this from the LSE Sociology Department, and for the first half of my career I was identified as a sociologist, rather an anthropologist, with my first academic appointments at Nottingham and then back at LSE. At Nottingham, I developed an interest in the history of social theory, particularly of the Nineteenth Century and wrote a study of the sociological thought of Herbert Spencer. The relations between past and present, memory and narrative, and the need for the social sciences to be grounded in history have been enduring themes in my work. Invited back to Nigeria in the mid-1970s to join a new department of Sociology & Anthropology, I undertook a further field/archival study - focussed on politics and ethnicity - of a large Yoruba town, Ilesha. After two years, I returned to England to take up the post of Charles Booth Professor of Sociology at Liverpool. Serving as editor of Africa: Journal of the International African Institute (1979-86) brought me closer to anthropology, and in 1989 I moved to SOAS. My main project of the 1990s was a third Yoruba study, of their encounter with missionaries in the C.19 and its import for their sense of themselves as a people My current project grows out of my last book and knits together many of the themes of earlier work. It is for a long-span and comparative study of the mutual engagement of Evangelical Christianity and local cultural demand in West Africa, anchored in the present by the aim to situate historically the current wave of neo-Pentecostal or “Born-again” Christianity, and in the past by the first Evangelical encounters with the “liberated” Africans in Sierra Leone c.1820. A significant aspect of the project – again dictated by the contemporary situation in Nigeria – will be to compare the trajectories of Christianity and Islam in the region.

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.

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[Ayo Obe]

This is sad news.  I got to know Professor J.D.Y. Peel when he supervised the doctoral thesis of my late sister, Dr. Abiola Ogunsola.  I made sure to see him when he came to Nigeria earlier this year for the 90th birthday celebrations of Sir Olaniwun Ajayi.  His passing is particularly poignant for me because it was outside his house at Archway, after a convivial evening of dinner with my sister and our children in December 2013 that I said goodbye to my sister for the last time.

A beautifully kind man, he was a real friend of Nigeria.

May he rest in peace.

Ayo

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[yaki...@yahoo.com]

May his soul rest in peace. I met at two different seminars, one in Ibadan during my sabbatical year in2008and shortly thereafter in Lagos. He was an engaging ang thorough scholar.

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