Hail Orisha!
A Phenomenology of a West African Religion in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Series: Studies of Religion in Africa; 19;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 1 November 1997
- ISBN 9789004109421
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages580 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 1183 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Informed by the documentation of journals and letters of the time, this book offers a detailed view of the day-to-day religion and life of orisha worshippers in West Africa around the mid-nineteenth century, before the advent of colonial rule.
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Orisha worshippers who were not subjected to forced migration to the Americas in the nineteenth century remained their own masters, inhabiting cities, towns and farm villages in their West African kingdoms. This study uses documentation from Yoruba writings and from the written record of European missionaries to describe the various facets of their religious life. Arranged in the form of a phenomenology, the work deals with such matters as the veneration of the environment; carved images of the divine; the orisha celebrated in festival, worship and sacrifice; systems of divination; female and male religious specialists; and the protean divinities themselves.
The comprehensive use of archival material will ensure the abiding value of this historical picture of the orisha, useful for comparisons with the present day.
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Informed by the documentation of journals and letters of the time, this book offers a detailed view of the day-to-day religion and life of orisha worshippers in West Africa around the mid-nineteenth century, before the advent of colonial rule.
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Hail Orisha!: A Phenomenology of a West African Religion in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
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