Four New World Yoruba Rituals

Four New World Yoruba Rituals
Title Four New World Yoruba Rituals PDF eBook
Author John Mason
Publisher
Pages 124
Release 1985
Genre Rites and ceremonies
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Black Gods--Oriṣa Studies in the New World

Black Gods--Oriṣa Studies in the New World
Title Black Gods--Oriṣa Studies in the New World PDF eBook
Author Gary Edwards
Publisher
Pages 108
Release 1985
Genre Religion
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Divining the Self

Divining the Self
Title Divining the Self PDF eBook
Author Velma E. Love
Publisher Penn State Press
Pages 159
Release 2015-06-29
Genre Religion
ISBN 0271061456

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Divining the Self weaves elements of personal narrative, myth, history, and interpretive analysis into a vibrant tapestry that reflects the textured, embodied, and performative nature of scripture and scripturalizing practices. Velma Love examines the Odu—the Yoruba sacred scriptures—along with the accompanying mythology, philosophy, and ritual technologies engaged by African Americans. Drawing from the personal narratives of African American Ifa practitioners along with additional ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Oyotunji African Village, South Carolina, and New York City, Love’s work explores the ways in which an ancient worldview survives in modern times. Divining the Self also takes up the challenge of determining what it means for the scholar of religion to study scripture as both text and performance. This work provides an excellent case study of the sociocultural phenomenon of scripturalizing practices.

Sixteen Cowries

Sixteen Cowries
Title Sixteen Cowries PDF eBook
Author William Russell Bascom
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 804
Release 1980-05-22
Genre History
ISBN 9780253208477

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" . . . a landmark in research of African oral traditions." —African Arts " . . . a significant contribution to the understanding of Yoruba religious belief, magic, and art." —Journal of Religion in Africa Yoruba texts and English translations of a divination system that originated in Nigeria and is widely practiced today by male and female diviners in the diaspora. A landmark edition.

Orin Òrìṣà

Orin Òrìṣà
Title Orin Òrìṣà PDF eBook
Author John Mason
Publisher Yoruba Theological Archminstry
Pages 450
Release 1997-01-01
Genre Music
ISBN 9781881244066

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"This is the first comprehensive translation and review of close to 600 Yorùbá songs that have been used in Cuba by Africans and their descendents, for over two hundred years, and in the U.S., since 1960, to prainse and envoke some 25 òrìṣà/deities. The classical character of the music, songs, and historic/elemental archetypes is discussed fully."--Page 4 of cover.

Yoruba Ritual

Yoruba Ritual
Title Yoruba Ritual PDF eBook
Author Margaret Thompson Drewal
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 536
Release 1992-03-22
Genre History
ISBN 0253112737

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Yoruba peoples of southwestern Nigeria conceive of rituals as journeys -- sometimes actual, sometimes virtual. Performed as a parade or a procession, a pilgrimage, a masking display, or possession trance, the journey evokes the reflexive, progressive, transformative experience of ritual participation. Yoruba Ritual is an original and provocative study of these practices. Using a performance paradigm, Margaret Thompson Drewal forges a new theoretical and methodological approach to the study of ritual that is thoroughly grounded in close analysis of the thoughts and actions of the participants. Challenging traditional notions of ritual as rigid, stereotypic, and invariant, Drewal reveals ritual to be progressive, transformative, generative, and reflexive and replete with simultaneity, multifocality, contingency, indeterminacy, and intertextuality. Throughout the book prominence is given to the intentionality of actors as knowledgeable agents who transform ritual itself through play and improvisation. Integral to the narrative are interpolations about performances and their meanings by Kolawole Ositola, a scholar of Yoruba oral tradition, ritual practitioner, diviner, and master performer. Rich descriptions of rituals relating to birth, death, reincarnation, divination, and constructions of gender are rendered all the more vivid by a generous selection of field photos of actual performances.

Africa's Ogun

Africa's Ogun
Title Africa's Ogun PDF eBook
Author Sandra T. Barnes
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 418
Release 1997-06-22
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0253113814

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This landmark work of ethnography explores the enduring, global worship of the African god of war—with five new essays in this new, expanded edition. Ogun—the ancient African god of iron, war, and hunting—is worshiped by more than forty million adherents in Western Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas. This rich, interdisciplinary collection draws on field research from several continents to reveal Ogun’s dramatic power and enduring appeal. Contributors examine the history and spread of Ogun throughout old and new worlds; the meaning of Ogun ritual, myth, and art; and the transformations of Ogun through the deity’s various manifestations. This edition includes five new essays focusing mainly on Ogun worship in the new world. “[A]n ethnographically rich contribution to the historical understanding of West African culture, as well as an exploration of the continued vitality of that culture in the changing environments of the Americas.” —African Studies Review