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This paper explores the depiction of Islam in home videos from the lenses of hermeneutics and textual exegesis to espouse societal attitudes or better put the cultural responses towards Islam as a domesticated religion. It reveals how the responses of the people towards Islam in home videos.

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It has been recently pointed out that one of the most intriguing aspects of the processes which are covered by the term globalization concerns the role of fantasy and the power of images in the (re)creation of persons and societies; and that fantasy is now a social practice, which enters, in a host of ways, into the fabrication of social lives for many people in many societies. Representation of this fantasy and other aspects of life in diverse media, especially home video, is pertinent to understanding society. Home videos are central both in the production and consumption of societal knowledge and practices. As important and pertinent home video films are in the understanding of the Nigerian society, especially about religious matters, they have not been given the deserved scholarly attention.

This paper, therefore, uses performance and artistic production of home videos to explicate the bricolage in cultural encounters of the people and processes of cultural transfer and translation in creating identity.

Using selected Yorùbá home videos, the paper discusses how artists’ imaginations, experiences, and close observation of their universe in diverse interrelationships and intra-relationships regarding Islam are depicted in their artistic productions.

This paper explores the depiction of Islam in home videos from the lenses of hermeneutics and textual exegesis to espouse societal attitudes or better put the cultural responses towards Islam as a domesticated religion. It hopes to reveal that the adoptions of Islam in Yorùbá land, forms an integral fulcrum upon which their history, linguistic practices, and identity hinge; and that through these home videos, the responses of the people towards Islam can be properly understood, from both secular and religious perspectives. In conclusion, the paper reveals how Islam, as a domesticated religion affect peoples' lives.

Keywords: Yorùbá, Proverbial genre, Identity, Secularity, Islam, Religion.