Acknowledgments
Introduction
JACOB K. OLUPONA AND TERRY REY
Part One:
Yoruba Religious Culture in Africa
I. The Tolerant Gods
WOLE SOYINKA
Who Was the First to Speak?
Insights from Ifa Orature and Sculptural Repertoire
ROWLAND ABIODUN
.In What Tongue?
QOLASOPE O. OYELARAN
Orisa: A Prolegomenon to a Philosophy of Yoruba Religion
OLUFEMI TAIWO
Seven Yoruba Deities
CORNELIUS O. ADEPEGBA
Associated Place-Names and Sacred Icons of Twice-Told Tales: Yortba Religious and Cultural Hegemony in Benin, Nigeria
FLORA EDOUWAYE S. KAPLAN
Meta-Cultural Processes and Ritual Realities in the
Precolonial History of the Lagos Region
SANDRA T. BARNES
The Pathways of Osun as Cultural Synergy
DIEDRE L. BADEJO
Religious Encounter in Southwestern Nigeria:
The Domestication of Islam among the Yoruba
H. O. DANMOLE
Yoruba Moral Epistemology as the Basis for a
Cross-Cultural Ethics
BARRY HALLEN
Part Two:
Yoruba Religious Culture beyond Africa
Yoruba Religion and Globalization: Some Reflections
OLABIYI BABALOLA YAI
Clearing New Paths into an Old Forest:
Aladura Christianity in Europe
AFE ADOGAME
Globalization and the Evolution of Haitian Vodou
LAENNEC HURBON, TRANSLATED BY TERRY REY
Historicizing Ifa Culture in Oy6tanji African Village
IKULOMI DJISOVI EASON
Ritual Change and the Changing Canon: Divinatory
Legitimization of Yortba Ancestral Roots in
Oyotanji 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 Santeria to African Yortba: Evolutions in African American Orisa History,
1959-1970
Santeria in the Twenty-first Century MERCEDES CROS SANDOVAL
La Santeria: An Integrating, Mythological Worldview in
a Disintegrating Society 372
JUAN J. SOSA
Myth, Memory, and History: Brazil’s Sacred Music
of Shango
JOSE FLAVIO PESSOA DE BARROS, TRANSLATED BY MARIA P. JUNQUEIRA
Yoruba Sacred Songs in the New World 416 JOSE JORGE DE CARVALHO
Axexé Funeral Rites in Brazil’s Orisa Religion:
Constitution, Significance, and Tendencies
REGINALDO PRANDI, TRANSLATED BY MARIA P. JUNQUEIRA
From Oral to Digital: Rethinking the Transmission of
Tradition in Yoruba Religion
GEORGE EDWARD BRANDON
Orisa Traditions and the Internet Diaspora JOSEPH M. MURPHY
Gender, Politics, and Hybridism in the Transnationalization of Yoruba Culture
RITA LAURA SEGATO, TRANSLATED BY ERNESTO IGNACIO DE CARVALHO
Is There Gender in Yortiba Culture? J. LORAND MATORY
Postscript
JOHN PEMBERTON III
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