Òsun is a brilliant deity whose imagery and worldwide devotion demand broad and deep scholarly reflection. Contributors to the ground-breaking Africa's Ogun, edited by Sandra Barnes (Indiana University Press, 1997), explored the complex nature of Ogun, the orisa who transforms life through iron and technology. Òsun across the Waters continues this exploration of Yoruba religion by documenting Òsun religion. Òsun presents a dynamic example of the resilience and renewed importance of traditional Yoruba images in negotiating spiritual experience, social identity, and political power in…mehr
Òsun is a brilliant deity whose imagery and worldwide devotion demand broad and deep scholarly reflection. Contributors to the ground-breaking Africa's Ogun, edited by Sandra Barnes (Indiana University Press, 1997), explored the complex nature of Ogun, the orisa who transforms life through iron and technology. Òsun across the Waters continues this exploration of Yoruba religion by documenting Òsun religion. Òsun presents a dynamic example of the resilience and renewed importance of traditional Yoruba images in negotiating spiritual experience, social identity, and political power in contemporary Africa and the African diaspora. The 17 contributors to Òsun across the Waters delineate the special dimensions of Òsun religion as it appears through multiple disciplines in multiple cultural contexts. Tracing the extent of Òsun traditions takes us across the waters and back again. Òsun traditions continue to grow and change as they flow and return from their sources in Africa and the Americas.
Joseph Murphy is associate professor in the Theology Department at Georgetown University. He is the author of Santeria: An African Religion in North America and Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora. Mei-Mei Sanford received her doctorate in Religion and Society from Drew University. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Nigeria. She currently does research in Nigeria and in African-American and Yoruba expatriate religious communities in the United States.
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Preliminary Table of Contents: Illustrations Preface Orthography 1Introduction: Joseph M. Murphy and Mei-Mei Sanford 2Hidden Power: Osun the Seventeenth Odu Rowland Abiodun 3A River of Many Turns: the Polysemy of Ochún in Afro-Cuban Tradition Isabel Castellanos 4Orisa Osun: Yoruba Sacred Kingship and Civil Religion in Osogbo, Nigeria Jacob Olupona 5Nesta Cidade Todo Mundo E D'Oxum, In This City Everyone is Oxum's Ieda M. R. dos Santos 6Mãe Menininha Manuel Vega 7Yéyé Cachita: Ochún in a Cuban Mirror Joseph M. Murphy 8Oshun Brass: An Insight into Yoruba Religious Symbology C.O. Adepegba 9Overflowing with Beauty: Ochún Altars in Lucumi Aesthetics Ysamur Flores-Peña 10Authority and Discourse in the Orin Odún Osun Diedre Badejo 11The Bag of Wisdom: Osun and the Origins of Ifa Divination 'Wande Abimbola 12Ochún in the Bronx George Brandon 13What Part of the River You're In: African American Women in Devotion to Òsun Rachel Elizabeth Harding 14Eerindinlogun: the Seeing Eyes of Sacred Shells and Stones David Ogungbile 15Mama Oxum: Reflections of Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Umbanda Lindsay Hale 16An Oxum Shelters Children in São Paulo Tânia Cypriano 17Living Water: Osun, Mami Wata, and Olokun in the Lives of Four Contemporary Nigerian Christian Women Mei-Mei Sanford 18Orchestration of the Waters and the Breeze: the Emblems of Oshun in Atlantic Perspective Robert Farris Thompson Contributors Index
Preliminary Table of Contents: Illustrations Preface Orthography 1Introduction: Joseph M. Murphy and Mei-Mei Sanford 2Hidden Power: Osun the Seventeenth Odu Rowland Abiodun 3A River of Many Turns: the Polysemy of Ochún in Afro-Cuban Tradition Isabel Castellanos 4Orisa Osun: Yoruba Sacred Kingship and Civil Religion in Osogbo, Nigeria Jacob Olupona 5Nesta Cidade Todo Mundo E D'Oxum, In This City Everyone is Oxum's Ieda M. R. dos Santos 6Mãe Menininha Manuel Vega 7Yéyé Cachita: Ochún in a Cuban Mirror Joseph M. Murphy 8Oshun Brass: An Insight into Yoruba Religious Symbology C.O. Adepegba 9Overflowing with Beauty: Ochún Altars in Lucumi Aesthetics Ysamur Flores-Peña 10Authority and Discourse in the Orin Odún Osun Diedre Badejo 11The Bag of Wisdom: Osun and the Origins of Ifa Divination 'Wande Abimbola 12Ochún in the Bronx George Brandon 13What Part of the River You're In: African American Women in Devotion to Òsun Rachel Elizabeth Harding 14Eerindinlogun: the Seeing Eyes of Sacred Shells and Stones David Ogungbile 15Mama Oxum: Reflections of Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Umbanda Lindsay Hale 16An Oxum Shelters Children in São Paulo Tânia Cypriano 17Living Water: Osun, Mami Wata, and Olokun in the Lives of Four Contemporary Nigerian Christian Women Mei-Mei Sanford 18Orchestration of the Waters and the Breeze: the Emblems of Oshun in Atlantic Perspective Robert Farris Thompson Contributors Index
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