Ijo Orunmila
Author: Fasina Falade
Publisher:
Published: 1998-06-01
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9780966313208
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Socrates and Ọ̀rúnmìlà
Author: Sophie B. Oluwole
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9789789295258
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Author: Ifayemi Eleburuibon
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780963878717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChief Ifayemi Elebuibon comes from a family acclaimed to be one of the authorities on Yoruba traditional institution. His great ancestor, Olutimehin was one of the co-founders of the City of Oshogbo, in Osun State of Nigeris. This book discusses the role of women in Ifa, The first principle wife of Orunmila and through the various Odus (Sacred text of Ifa) relates and analyses various aspects and circumstances of Apetebi. An especially important book for women's studies.
Yoruba Art and Language
Author: Rowland Abiodun
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-11-13
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1139992872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Yoruba was one of the most important civilizations of sub-Saharan Africa. While the high quality and range of its artistic and material production have long been recognized, the art of the Yoruba has been judged primarily according to the standards and principles of Western aesthetics. In this book, which merges the methods of art history, archaeology, and anthropology, Rowland Abiodun offers new insights into Yoruba art and material culture by examining them within the context of the civilization's cultural norms and values and, above all, the Yoruba language. Abiodun draws on his fluency and prodigious knowledge of Yoruba culture and language to dramatically enrich our understanding of Yoruba civilization and its arts. The book includes a companion website with audio clips of the Yoruba language, helping the reader better grasp the integral connection between art and language in Yoruba culture.
The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts
Author: Baba Ifa Karade
Publisher: Weiser Books
Published: 2020-04-01
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1633411346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to the spiritual source of the beliefs and practices that have so profoundly shaped African American religious traditions. Most of the Africans who were enslaved and brought to the Americas were from the Yoruba nation of West Africa, an ancient and vast civilization. In the diaspora caused by the slave trade, the guiding concepts of the Yoruba spiritual tradition took root in Haiti, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil, and the United States. In this accessible introduction, Baba Ifa Karade provides an overview of the Yoruba tradition and its influence in the West. He describes the sixteen Orisha, or spirit gods, and shows us how to work with divination, use the energy centers of the body to internalize the teachings of Yoruba, and create a sacred place of worship. The book also includes prayers, dances, songs, offerings, and sacrifices to honor the Orisha.
Encyclopedia of African Religion
Author: Molefi Kete Asante
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 1412936365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects almost five hundred entries that cover the African response to spirituality, taboos, ethics, sacred space, and objects.
Ifism
Author: Cromwell Osamaro Ibiè
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 204
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Author: Marloes Janson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-06-10
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 110883891X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rich ethnography of lived religious experiences in Lagos, offering a unique look at religious pluralism in Nigeria's biggest city.
Èṣù
Author: Toyin Falola
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781611632224
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the most extensive book on Esu, also known in different locations as Eleda, Exu, Cxu Eleggua, Cxu Elegbara, Legba, Elegba, Elegbera, or Odara. He is the "divine messenger," central to the understanding of Yoruba religion and worldview, as well as their various manifestations and related orisa traditions in the African diaspora--such as Candomblé, Vodou, and Santería/Lukumi. Esu and Ifa (divination with all its sacred texts) or Orunmila (the god of divination) rank as the most widespread and the most worshipped of all the deities. Both Esu and Ifa/Orunmila hold the Yoruba cosmic system together. Esu is now part of what some may label as the Black Atlantic religion; part of the attempt to recover African religions in other lands; as well as part of the use of religion for survival. As the book points out, in Esu's ability to migrate to other lands, he becomes part of transatlantic history, but more so of the tension between relocation and history, between the violence that led to the forced migrations of people and the long healing process of reconciliation with living in strange lands that later became new homelands. This book is part of the African World Series, edited by Toyin Falola, Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin.
