Osun Across the Waters A Yoruba Goddess in Africa and the Americas

Name: Osun Across the Waters A Yoruba Goddess in Africa and the Americas
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ISBN: 9780253214591

ISBN-10: 0253214599

ISBN-13: 9780253214591

Edition: 2001

Authors: Joseph M. Murphy, Mei-Mei Sanford, Mei-Mei Sanford

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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…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 10/9/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

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.



List of illustrations


Orthography



Introduction




Hidden Power: Osun, the Seventeenth Odu




A River of Many Turns: The Polysemy of Ochun in Afro-Cuban Tradition




Orisa Osun: Yoruba Sacred Kingship and Civil Religion in Osogbo, Nigeria




Nesta Cidade Todo Mundo e d'Oxum: In This City Everyone Is Oxum's




Mae Menininha




Yeye Cachita: Ochun in a Cuban Mirror




Osun and Brass: An Insight into Yoruba Religious Symbology




Overflowing with Beauty: The Ochun Altar in Lucumi Aesthetic Tradition




Authority and Discourse in the Orin Odun Osun




The Bag of Wisdom: Osun and the Origins of the Ifa Divination




Ochun in the Bronx




"What Part of the River You're In": African American Women in Devotion to Osun




Eerindinlogun: The Seeing Eyes of Sacred Shells and Stones




Mama Oxum: Reflections of Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Umbanda




An Oxum Shelters Children in Sao Paulo




Living Water: Osun, Mami Wata, and Olokun in the Lives of Four Contemporary Nigerian Christian Women




Orchestrating Water and the Wind: Oshun's Art in Atlantic Context



Contributors


Index