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Osun across the Waters

A Yoruba Goddess in Africa and the Americas
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Osun is a brilliant deity whose imagery and world-wide devotion demand broad and deep scholarly reflection. The contributors to the ground-breaking Africa's Ogun edited by Sandra Barnes explored the complex nature of Ogun, the orisa who transforms life through iron and technology. Osun Across the Waters continues this exploration of Yoruba religion by documenting Osun religion. Osun 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 African and the African diaspora. The seventeen contributors to Osun Across the Waters delineate the special dimensions of Osun religion as it appears through multiple disciplines in multiple cultural contexts. Tracing the extent of Osun traditions takes us across the waters and back again. Osun traditions continue to grow and change as they flow and return from their sources in Africa and the Americas.

Author Biography:

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.
Release date NZ
October 9th, 2001
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Joseph M Murphy
  • Edited by Mei-Mei Sanford
Illustrations
44 b&w photos, 3 maps, 18 bibliog., 1 index
Pages
288
Dimensions
157x237x15
ISBN-13
9780253214591
Product ID
3657507

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