Contents
List of Illustrations / vii Orthography / ix
1. Introduction
Joseph M. Murphy and Mei-Mei Sanford
2.HiddenPower:Osun, the Seventeenth Odu` / Rowland Abiodun
3. A River of Many Turns: The Polysemy of Ochun in Afro- Cuban Tradition / Isabel Castellanos
4. Orıs.a` Osun: Yoruba Sacred Kingship and Civil Religion in Osogbo, Nigeria / Jacob K. Olupona
5. Nesta Cidade Todo Mundo e ́ d’Oxum: In This City Everyone Is Oxum’s /Ieda Machado Ribeiro dos Santos
6. Ma ̃e Menininha / Manuel Vega7. Ye ́ye ́ Cachita: Ochu ́n in a Cuban Mirror
8. Osun and Brass: An Insight into Yoruba Religious Symbology
9. Overflowing with Beauty: The Ochun Altar in Lucumı Aesthetic Tradition / Ysamur Flores-Pen ̃a
10. Authority and Discourse in the Orin Odun Osun / Diedre L. Badejo
11. The Bag of Wisdom: Osun and the Origins of the Ifa ́ Divination ’/Wande Abimbola
12. Ochun in the Bronx / George Brandon
13. “What Part of the River You’re In”: African American Women in Devotion to Osun / Rachel Elizabeth Harding
14. Eerındınlogun:The Seeing Eyes of Sacred Shells and Stones / David O. Ogungbile
15. Mama Oxum: Reflections of Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Umbanda /Lindsay Hale
16. An Oxum Shelters Children in Sa ̃o Paulo / Taˆnia Cypriano
17. Living Water: Osun, Mami Wata, and Olokun in the Lives of Four Contemporary Nigerian Christian Women / Mei-Mei Sanford
18. Orchestrating Water and the Wind: Oshun’s Art in Atlantic Context / Robert Farris Thompson
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