| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 609 pages : illustrations) |
| Contents |
The tolerant gods / Wole Soyinka -- Who was the first to speak? : insights from Ifá orature and sculptural repertoire / Rowland Abiodun -- In what tongue? / Ọlásopé O. Oyèláràn -- Òrìṣà : a prolegomenon to a philosophy of Yorùbá religion / Olufemi Taiwo -- Associated place-names and sacred icons of seven Yorùbá deities / Cornelius O. Adepegba -- Twice-told tales : Yorùbá religious and cultural hegemony in Benin, Nigeria / Flora S. Kaplan -- Meta-cultural processes and ritual realities in the precolonial history of the Lagos region / Sandra T. Barnes -- The pathways of Ọ̀ṣun as cultural synergy / Diedre L. Badejo -- Religious encounter in southwestern Nigeria : the domestication of Islam among the Yorùbá / H.O. Danmolé -- Yorùbá moral epistemology as the basis for a cross-cultural ethics / Barry Hallen -- Yorùbá religion and globalization : some reflections / Olabiyi Babalola Yai -- Clearing new paths into an old forest : Aládurà Christianity in Europe / Afe Adogame -- Globalization and the evolution of Haitian Vodou / Laënnec Hurbon ; translated by Terry Rey -- Historicizing Ifá culture in Ọ̀yọ́túnjí African village / Ikulomi Djisovi Eason -- Ritual change and the changing canon : divinatory legitimization of Yorùbá ancestral roots in Ọ̀yọ́túnjí African village / Kamari Maxine Clarke -- The dynamic influence of Cubans, Puerto Ricans, and African Americans in the growth of Ocha in New York City / Marta Moreno Vega -- From Cuban Santería to African Yorùbá : evolutions in African American òrìṣà history, 1959-1970 / Tracey E. Hucks -- Santería in the twenty-first century / Mercedes Cros Sandoval -- La Santería : an integrating, mythological worldview in a disintegrating society / Juan J. Sosa -- Myth, memory, and history : Brazil's sacred music of Shango / José Flávio Pessoa de Barros ; translated by Maria P. Junqueira -- Yorùbá sacred songs in the New World / José Jorge de Carvalho -- Axexê funeral rites in Brazil's òrìṣà religion : constitution, significance, and tendencies / Reginaldo Prandi ; translated by Maria P. Junqueira -- From oral to digital : rethinking the transmission of tradition in Yorùbá religion / George Edward Brandon -- Òrìṣà traditions and the Internet diaspora / Joseph M. Murphy -- Gender, politics, and hybridism in the transnationalization of Yorùbá culture / Rita Laura Segato ; translated by Ernesto Ignacio de Carvalho -- Is there gender in Yorùbá culture? / J. Lorand Matory |
| Summary |
As the twenty-first century begins, tens of millions of people participate in devotions to the spirits called Òrìsà. This book explores the emergence of Òrìsà devotion as a world religion, one of the most remarkable and compelling developments in the history of the human religious quest. Originating among the Yorùba people of West Africa, the varied traditions that comprise Òrìsà devotion are today found in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Australia. -- from publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Orishas.
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Gods, Yoruba.
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Yoruba (African people) -- Religion.
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Gods, Yoruba.
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Orishas.
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Yoruba (African people) -- Religion.
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Orischa
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Verbreitung
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Yoruba
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globalisation (mondialisation) -- orisha -- Yoruba (peuple)
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Yoruba.
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Miami <Fla., 1999>
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Olupọna, Jacob Obafẹmi Kẹhinde
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Rey, Terry
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| LC no. |
2007012910 |
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