Ọ̀ṣun Across the Waters: A Yoruba Goddess in Africa and the Americas
Joseph M. Murphy, Mei-Mei Sanford
Ãsun 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. Ãsun across the Waters continues this exploration of Yoruba religion by documenting Ãsun religion. Ãsun 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 Ãsun across the Waters delineate the special dimensions of Ãsun religion as it appears through multiple disciplines in multiple cultural contexts. Tracing the extent of Ãsun traditions takes us across the waters and back again. Ãsun traditions continue to grow and change as they flow and return from their sources in Africa and the Americas.
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Rok:
2001
Wydawnictwo:
Indiana University Press
Język:
english
Strony:
273
ISBN 10:
0253339197
ISBN 13:
9780253339195
Plik:
PDF, 4.16 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2001