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Forms of Worship

How Orisa Worship Became Religion in Nigeria and Brazil

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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The worship of Yoruba deities known as oriṣa is commonly understood as an indigenous African religion, but Ayodeji Ogunnaike argues that these traditions initially differed from the modern Western concept of religion. In Forms of Worship, Ogunnaike analyzes how the configuration of oriṣa worship has changed across the Yoruba diaspora and homeland. As the meaning of the Yoruba word ẹsin, usually translated as “religion,” is closer to “form of worship,” he examines how reorienting understandings of oriṣa traditions as multiple forms of worship changes how religious identity, practice, and dynamics can be understood in contemporary and historical perspectives. By developing indigenous models for religious phenomena, Ogunnaike accounts for Yoruba cultural dynamics, including the high degree of religious harmony, syncretism, and interaction prevalent both in Nigeria and Brazil. Furthermore, he tracks the subtle and largely unperceived shift in oriṣa worship toward a more modern, closed, and rigid conception of religion and its resulting complications. Forms of Worship demonstrates how the advent of Western religious rigidity regarding practice and identity has led to rising religious tensions and fragmentation.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-09-15
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt445 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieReligious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Antal sidor366
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9781478039020

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Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 11. From Myth to Modernity: A Religious History of Ẹdẹ 172. Forms of Worship, Not Religion 473. How Worship Became Religion: Diaspora, Homeland, and the Lagosian Renaissance 814. How Religion Becomes International 1215. Masking Tradition(s): Indigenous Perspectives on Syncretism 1376. How Religion Is Changing the Religious 1697. The Timi: Sacred Kinship, Managing Modernity, and New Religious Pluralism 215Conclusion 259Notes 283Bibliography 325Index 341

“Every once in a while, a text like Forms of Worship emerges and offers new perspectives on some of the great historic faith traditions of the world. Ogunnaike expands the critical dialogue on the Orisa tradition with depth and nuance that students, devotees, and scholars will appreciate. An astute excavation and interpretation of Yorùbá presence and practice on both sides of the Atlantic.”—Elias K. Bongmba, Harry & Hazel Chavanne Chair in Christian Theology, Rice University"Forms of Worship illustrates the evolution of Africa's most celebrated indigenous religious tradition into a modern religion in the Western sense, in the process retheorizing what "religion" can be. Ayodeji Ogunnaike models how spirituality should be studied, bringing together ethnographic and archival examples from Ede, Nigeria, and Salvador, Brazil to center ancestrality, living, doing, ethics, and practices rather than doctrine and creed. A major contribution." —Jacob K. Olupona, Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University