Orisa Devotion as World Religion Book

Acknowledgments     xi
Introduction   Jacob K. Olupona   Terry Rey     3
Yoruba Religious Culture in Africa
The Tolerant Gods   Wole Soyinka     31
Who Was the First to Speak? Insights from Ifa Orature and Sculptural Repertoire   Rowland Abiodun     51
In What Tongue?   Olasope O. Oyelaran     70
Orisa: A Prolegomenon to a Philosophy of Yoruba Religion   Olufemi Taiwo     84
Associated Place-Names and Sacred Icons of Seven Yoruba Deities   Cornelius O. Adepegba     106
Twice-Told Tales: Yoruba Religious and Cultural Hegemony in Benin, Nigeria   Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan     128
Meta-Cultural Processes and Ritual Realities in the Precolonial History of the Lagos Region   Sandra T. Barnes     164
The Pathways of Osun as Cultural Synergy   Diedre L. Badejo     191
Religious Encounter in Southwestern Nigeria: The Domestication of Islam among the Yoruba   H. O. Danmole     202
Yoruba Moral Epistemology as the Basis for a Cross-Cultural Ethics   Barry Hallen     222
Yoruba Religious Culture beyond Africa
Yoruba Religion and Globalization: Some Reflections   Olabiyi Babalola Yai     233
Clearing New Paths into an Old Forest: AladuraChristianity in Europe   Afe Adogame     247
Globalization and the Evolution of Haitian Vodou   Laennec Hurbon   Terry Rey     263
Historicizing Ifa Culture in Oyotunji African Village   Ikulomi Djisovi Eason     278
Ritual Change and the Changing Canon: Divinatory Legitimization of Yoruba Ancestral Roots in Oyotunji African Village   Kamari Maxine Clarke     286
The Dynamic Influence of Cubans, Puerto Ricans, and African Americans in the Growth of Ocha in New York City   Marta Moreno Vega     320
From Cuban Santeria to African Yoruba: Evolutions in African American Orisa History, 1959-1970   Tracey E. Hucks     337
Santeria in the Twenty-first Century   Mercedes Cros Sandoval     355
La Santeria: An Integrating, Mythological Worldview in a Disintegrating Society   Juan J. Sosa     372
Myth, Memory, and History: Brazil's Sacred Music of Shango   Jose Flavio Pessoa de Barros$dTranslated by Maria P. Junqueira     400
Yoruba Sacred Songs in the New World   Jose Jorge de Carvalho     416
Axexe Funeral Rites in Brazil's Orisa Religion: Constitution, Significance, and Tendencies   Reginaldo Prandi$dTranslated by Maria P. Junqueira     437
From Oral to Digital: Rethinking the Transmission of Tradition in Yoruba Religion    George Edward Brandon     448
Orisa Traditions and the Internet Diaspora   Joseph M. Murphy     470
Gender, Politics, and Hybridism in the Transnationalization of Yoruba Culture   Rita Laura Segato$dTranslated by Ernesto Ignacio de Carvalho     485
Is There Gender in Yoruba Culture?   J. Lorand Matory     513
Postscript   John Pemberton III     559
Glossary     573
Contributors     581
Index     589