Òrìşà devotion as world religion : the globalization of Yorùbá religious culture / edited by Jacob K. Olupona and Terry Rey.

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. Origi...

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Other Authors:	Olupọna, Jacob Obafẹmi Kẹhinde, Rey, Terry
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2008.
Subjects:	Orishas. Gods, Yoruba. Yoruba (African people) > Religion. Orischa Verbreitung Yoruba globalisation (mondialisation) > orisha > Yoruba (peuple) Yoruba. Miami <Fla., 1999>
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Table of 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.

Òrìşà devotion as world religion : the globalization of Yorùbá religious culture / edited by Jacob K. Olupona and Terry Rey.

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