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Author |
: Jacob Olupona |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 355 |
Release |
: 2011-12-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520265561 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520265564 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis City of 201 Gods by : Jacob Olupona
The author focuses on one of the most important religious centers in Africa: the Yoruba city of Ile-Ife in southwest Nigeria. The spread of Yoruba traditions in the African diaspora has come to define the cultural identity of millions of black and white people in Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and the United States. He describes how the city went from great prominence to near obliteration and then rose again as a contemporary city of gods. Throughout, he corroborates the indispensable linkages between religion, cosmology, migration, and kinship as espoused in the power of royal lineages, hegemonic state structure, gender, and the Yoruba sense of place.
Author |
: Jacob Olupona |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 2011-12-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520948549 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520948548 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis City of 201 Gods by : Jacob Olupona
In a study that challenges familiar Western modes of thought, Jacob K. Olupona focuses on one of the most important religious centers in Africa and in the world: the Yorùbá city of Ilé-Ifè in southwest Nigeria. The spread of Yorùbá traditions in the African diaspora has come to define the cultural identity of millions of black and white people in Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and the United States. Seen through the eyes of a native, this first comprehensive study of the spiritual and cultural center of the Yorùbá religion tells how the city went from great prominence to near obliteration and then rose again as a contemporary city of gods. Throughout, Olupona corroborates the indispensable linkages between religion, cosmology, migration, and kinship as espoused in the power of royal lineages, hegemonic state structure, gender, and the Yorùbá sense of place, offering the fullest portrait to date of this sacred African city.
Author |
: Jacob Olupona |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 355 |
Release |
: 2011-12-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520265554 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520265556 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis City of 201 Gods by : Jacob Olupona
“Olupona does a masterful job of interweaving historical detail, personal interviews and observations. Here, myth becomes lived reality, and one is forced to take pause and ask what and where indeed are the true powers that enable humans to inhabit the modern city.” —Charles H. Long, author of Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion “This book is destined to be the authoritative source on one of the most important religious centers and one of the most fascinating ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa. This is a remarkable and engaging piece of research by a first-class scholar who knows his discipline and his native culture.”—Barry Hallen, author of The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse About Values in Yoruba Culture
Author |
: Jacob K. Olupona |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 177 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199790586 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199790582 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Religions by : Jacob K. Olupona
This book connects traditional religions to the thriving religious activity in Africa today.
Author |
: Jacob Kẹhinde Olupona |
Publisher |
: Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages |
: 628 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0299224643 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780299224646 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Òrìşà Devotion as World Religion by : Jacob Kẹhinde Olupona
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 Yorùbá people of West Africa, the varied traditions that comprise Òrìsà devotion are today found in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Australia. The African spirit proved remarkably resilient in the face of the transatlantic slave trade, inspiring the perseverance of African religion wherever its adherents settled in the New World. Among the most significant manifestations of this spirit, Yorùbá religious culture persisted, adapted, and even flourished in the Americas, especially in Brazil and Cuba, where it thrives as Candomblé and Lukumi/Santería, respectively. After the end of slavery in the Americas, the free migrations of Latin American and African practitioners has further spread the religion to places like New York City and Miami. Thousands of African Americans have turned to the religion of their ancestors, as have many other spiritual seekers who are not themselves of African descent. Ifá divination in Nigeria, Candomblé funerary chants in Brazil, the role of music in Yorùbá revivalism in the United States, gender and representational authority in Yorùbá religious culture--these are among the many subjects discussed here by experts from around the world. Approaching Òrìsà devotion from diverse vantage points, their collective effort makes this one of the most authoritative texts on Yorùbá religion and a groundbreaking book that heralds this rich, complex, and variegated tradition as one of the world's great religions.
Author |
: Jacob K. Olupona |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 390 |
Release |
: 2016-02-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253018960 |
ISBN-13 |
: 025301896X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ifá Divination, Knowledge, Power, and Performance by : Jacob K. Olupona
This landmark volume compiled by Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. Abiodun brings readers into the diverse world of Ifá—its discourse, ways of thinking, and artistic expression as manifested throughout the Afro-Atlantic. Firmly rooting Ifá within African religious traditions, the essays consider Ifá and Ifá divination from the perspectives of philosophy, performance studies, and cultural studies. They also examine the sacred context, verbal art, and the interpretation of Ifá texts and philosophy. With essays from the most respected scholars in the field, the book makes a substantial contribution toward understanding Ifá and its role in contemporary Yoruba and diaspora cultures.
Author |
: Amanda Carlson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813049660 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813049663 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Africa in Florida by : Amanda Carlson
This collection of essays encourages a critical evaluation of the concept of "Florida" as a cultural and geographical entity and the influences and effects of the numerous African and Africa American-influenced cultures.
Author |
: Ara Norenzayan |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2015-08-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691169743 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691169748 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Big Gods by : Ara Norenzayan
Examines how the belief in gods has lead to cooperation and sometimes conflict between groups. The author also looks at how some cooperative societies have developed without belief in gods.
Author |
: Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 2017-03-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780271079684 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0271079681 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kimbanguism by : Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot
In this volume, Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot, a sociologist and son of a Kimbanguist pastor, provides a fresh and insightful perspective on African Kimbanguism and its traditions. The largest of the African-initiated churches, Kimbanguism claims seventeen million followers worldwide. Like other such churches, it originated out of black African resistance to colonization in the early twentieth century and advocates reconstructing blackness by appropriating the parameters of Christian identity. Mokoko Gampiot provides a contextual history of the religion’s origins and development, compares Kimbanguism with other African-initiated churches and with earlier movements of political and spiritual liberation, and explores the implicit and explicit racial dynamics of Christian identity that inform church leaders and lay practitioners. He explains how Kimbanguists understand their own blackness as both a curse and a mission and how that underlying belief continuously spurs them to reinterpret the Bible through their own prisms. Drawing from an unprecedented investigation into Kimbanguism’s massive body of oral traditions—recorded sermons, participant observations of church services and healing sessions, and translations of hymns—and informed throughout by Mokoko Gampiot’s intimate knowledge of the customs and language of Kimbanguism, this is an unparalleled theological and sociological analysis of a unique African Christian movement.
Author |
: Toyin Falola |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 472 |
Release |
: 2005-05-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253003010 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253003016 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World by : Toyin Falola
This innovative anthology focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yoruba. Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this anthology will allow students to trace the experiences of one cultural group throughout the cycle of the slave experience in the Americas. The 19 essays, employing a variety of disciplinary perspectives, provide a detailed study of how the Yoruba were integrated into the Atlantic world through the slave trade and slavery, the transformations of Yoruba identities and culture, and the strategies for resistance employed by the Yoruba in the New World. The contributors are Augustine H. Agwuele, Christine Ayorinde, Matt D. Childs, Gibril R. Cole, David Eltis, Toyin Falola, C. Magbaily Fyle, Rosalyn Howard, Robin Law, Babatunde Lawal, Russell Lohse, Paul E. Lovejoy, Beatriz G. Mamigonian, Robin Moore, Ann O'Hear, Luis Nicolau Parés, Michele Reid, João José Reis, Kevin Roberts, and Mariza de Carvalho Soares. Blacks in the Diaspora -- Claude A. Clegg III, editor Darlene Clark Hine, David Barry Gaspar, and John McCluskey, founding editors