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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Yoruba Religious Culture in Africa | |
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| The Tolerant Gods | |
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| Who Was the First to Speak? Insights from Ifa Orature and Sculptural Repertoire | |
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| In What Tongue? | |
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| Orisa: A Prolegomenon to a Philosophy of Yoruba Religion | |
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| Associated Place-Names and Sacred Icons of Seven Yoruba Deities | |
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| Twice-Told Tales: Yoruba Religious and Cultural Hegemony in Benin, Nigeria | |
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| Meta-Cultural Processes and Ritual Realities in the Precolonial History of the Lagos Region | |
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| The Pathways of Osun as Cultural Synergy | |
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| Religious Encounter in Southwestern Nigeria: The Domestication of Islam among the Yoruba | |
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| Yoruba Moral Epistemology as the Basis for a Cross-Cultural Ethics | |
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| Yoruba Religious Culture beyond Africa | |
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| Yoruba Religion and Globalization: Some Reflections | |
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| Clearing New Paths into an Old Forest: Aladura Christianity in Europe | |
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| Globalization and the Evolution of Haitian Vodou | |
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| Historicizing Ifa Culture in Oyotunji African Village | |
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| Ritual Change and the Changing Canon: Divinatory Legitimization of Yoruba Ancestral Roots in Oyotunji African Village | |
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| The Dynamic Influence of Cubans, Puerto Ricans, and African Americans in the Growth of Ocha in New York City | |
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| From Cuban Santeria to African Yoruba: Evolutions in African American Orisa History, 1959-1970 | |
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| Santeria in the Twenty-first Century | |
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| La Santeria: An Integrating, Mythological Worldview in a Disintegrating Society | |
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| Myth, Memory, and History: Brazil's Sacred Music of Shango | |
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| Yoruba Sacred Songs in the New World | |
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| Axexe Funeral Rites in Brazil's Orisa Religion: Constitution, Significance, and Tendencies | |
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| From Oral to Digital: Rethinking the Transmission of Tradition in Yoruba Religion | |
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| Orisa Traditions and the Internet Diaspora | |
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| Gender, Politics, and Hybridism in the Transnationalization of Yoruba Culture | |
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| Is There Gender in Yoruba Culture? | |
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| Postscript | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |