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Author : J. Olumide Lucas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Yoruba (African people)
ISBN : OCLC:59557848
Author : Jonathan Olumide Lucas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Yoruba (African people)
ISBN : IND:30000053030965
An account of the religious beliefs and practices of the Yoruba peoples of Southern Nigeria. Especially in relation to the religion of ancient Egypt. A comprehensive study of Yoruba, including a survey of the major Orishas, the deified spirits of ancestors and other spirits, the minor Orishas, details of priesthood and worship, the Yoruba conception of human beings, magic in Yorubaland, and survival of hieroglyphics, emblems and other symbols.
Author : Aribidesi Usman,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107064607
A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.
Author : John David Yeadon Peel,J. D. Y. Peel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0253215889
"Peel is by training an anthropologist, but one possessed of an acute historical sensibility. Indeed, this magnificent book achieves a degree of analytical verve rare in either discipline." —History Today "[T]his is scholarship of the highest quality. . . . Peel lifts the Yoruba past to a dimension of comparative seriousness that no one else has managed. . . . The book teems with ideas . . . about big and compelling matters of very wide interest." —T. C. McCaskie In this magisterial book, J. D. Y. Peel contends that it is through their encounter with Christian missions in the mid-19th century that the Yoruba came to know themselves as a distinctive people. Peel's detailed study of the encounter is based on the rich archives of the Anglican Church Missionary Society, which contain the journals written by the African agents of mission, who, as the first generation of literate Yoruba, played a key role in shaping modern Yoruba consciousness. This distinguished book pays special attention to the experiences of ordinary men and women and shows how the process of Christian conversion transformed Christianity into something more deeply Yoruba.
Author : Clara Robinson
Publisher : Creek Ridge Publishing
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Learn about the Yoruba people of Africa, Gods and the different Orishas The belief system of the Yoruba people, which may have originated millions of years ago in Nigeria, is regarded as one of the oldest religions in the world. It has since gained followers from all over the world, from the Caribbean to North America, and it’s easy to see why. Its oral interpretations have piqued the interest of many, ranging from majestic tales of the Orishas to life-changing teachings of reincarnation. And, while it has been modified or intertwined with other world religions everywhere else, this high form of spirituality is still practiced in its original form in Africa.
Author : R. E. Dennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429656477
Originally written and published in 1910, Dennett's study of the Yoruba is designed to provide a clear and intelligble description of the beliefs and values which underlie traditional practices and customs among this Nigerian tribe. It seeks to provide an account of the religious institutions that are found in Yorubaland, and to relate these to some aspects of the political and economic life of the Yorubas. The book is based on information which the author collected from informants while in Nigeria, as well as on some of the first written material produced by Nigerian scholars themselves in the first decade of this century. Dennett's study provies a valuable source of oral tradition, which he recorded meticulously, and a fascinating insight into the early attempts to describe and categorise African systems of thought.
Author : Marloes Janson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108838917
A rich ethnography of lived religious experiences in Lagos, offering a unique look at religious pluralism in Nigeria's biggest city.
Author : Richard Edward Dennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UCAL:$B58074
Author : George Eaton Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038245846
Author : S. A. Adewale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040987534
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108020992
The first published account and standard reference for the history of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, first published in 1921.
Author : J.D.Y. Peel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520285859
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria are exceptional for the copresence among them of three religious traditions: Islam, Christianity, and the indigenous orisa religion. In this comparative study, at once historical and anthropological, Peel explores the intertwined character of the three religions and the dense imbrication of religion in all aspects of Yoruba history up to the present. For over 400 years, the Yoruba have straddled two geocultural spheres: one reaching north over the Sahara to the world of Islam, the other linking them to the Euro-American world via the Atlantic. These two external spheres were the source of contrasting cultural influences, notably those emanating from the world religions. However, the Yoruba not only imported Islam and Christianity but also exported their own orisa religion to the New World. Before the voluntary modern diaspora that has brought many Yoruba to Europe and the Americas, tens of thousands were sold as slaves in the New World, bringing with them the worship of the orisa. Peel offers deep insight into important contemporary themes such as religious conversion, new religious movements, relations between world religions, the conditions of religious violence, the transnational flows of contemporary religion, and the interplay between tradition and the demands of an ever-changing present. In the process, he makes a major theoretical contribution to the anthropology of world religions.
Author : Stephen S. Farrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : IND:30000054093699
The writer when living in Yorubaland found that worship of the people showed belief in Spiritual beings of various types, falling properly into four distinct classes, viz (A) a Supreme Deity, Olorun by Name; (B) a large class of Lesser Gods, or Orishas, their number being variously stated as 201 or 401 by their babalawos, or priests, but probably comprising over 600; (C) the spirits of the Dead (ancestor worship, etc); (D) a Supreme Spirit, Esu. Stephen Farrow discusses objects of worship, objects of beliefs, modes of worship, the world of the mysterious and more making this book a valuable treatise on the Yoruba Religion and its practices.
Author : Jacob Kẹhinde Olupona,Terry Rey
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0299224643
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 : Oyèrónké Oládém?
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479814015
Uncovers the influence of Yoruba culture on women’s religious lives and leadership in religions practiced by Yoruba people Women in Yoruba Religions examines the profound influence of Yoruba culture in Yoruba religion, Christianity, Islam, and Afro-Diasporic religions such as Santeria and Candomblé, placing gender relations in historical and social contexts. While the coming of Christianity and Islam to Yorubaland has posed significant challenges to Yoruba gender relations by propagating patriarchal gender roles, the resources within Yoruba culture have enabled women to contest the full acceptance of those new norms. Oyeronke Olademo asserts that Yoruba women attain and wield agency in family and society through their economic and religious roles, and Yoruba operate within a system of gender balance, so that neither of the sexes can be subsumed in the other. Olademo utilizes historical and phenomenological methods, incorporating impressive data from interviews and participant-observation, showing how religion is at the core of Yoruba lived experiences and is intricately bound up in all sectors of daily life in Yorubaland and abroad in the diaspora.
