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""The sacred texts of Ifa, repository of the accumulated wisdom of countless generations of Yoruba people, are an invaluable source not only for all students of African oral literature and Yoruba civilization, but also for future generations interested in the continuing vitality of Ifa divination and a Yoruba way of life and thought."" -Henry DrewalThis landmark study of Ifa, the most important and elaborate system of divination of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, remains a monumental contribution to scholarship in anthropology, folklore, religion, philosophy, linguistics, and African a

Yoruba (African people) --- Geomancy --- Ifa (Religion) --- Geomanty --- Divination --- Fa (Religion) --- Ifa --- Ifa (Cult) --- Afro-Caribbean cults --- Cults --- Religion. --- Ifa.

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"First-person accounts that show the expanding demographics of African-descended religions In this focused portrayal of global dispersal and spiritual sojourning, Martin Tsang draws together first-person accounts of the evolving Afro-Atlantic religious landscape. Spirited Diasporas offers a glimpse into the frequently misunderstood religions of Afro-Cuban LukumiÌ, Haitian Vodou, and Brazilian CandombleÌ, adding to the growing research on the transnational yet personal nature of African diasporic religions. In these accounts, practitioners from many origins illustrate the work and commitment they undertook to learn and become initiated in these traditions. They reveal in the process a variety of experiences that are not often documented. Their perspectives also show the expanding contemporary demographics of African-descended religions, many of whose members identify as LGBTQ or are part of other minoritized populations, and they counter inaccurate and often racialized portrayals of these religions as being anti-modern and geographically limited. Through the voices of the professionals, scholars, and activists gathered here, readers will appreciate the purpose and belonging to be found in the far-reaching communities of these Latin American and Caribbean spiritualities. As the seekers in these stories discover and come home to their new religious families, Spirited Diasporas displays the relevance and generative power of these traditions."-- "Through a variety of first-person accounts, this book offers a glimpse into the frequently misunderstood religions of Afro-Cuban LukumiÌ, Haitian Vodou, and Brazilian CandombleÌ, adding to the growing research on the transnational yet personal nature of African diasporic religions"--

Black people --- Black people --- Afro-Caribbean cults --- Religion. --- Religious life and customs. --- History. --- Atlantic Ocean Region --- Religion --- History.

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With essays from the most respected scholars in the field, the book makes a substantial contribution toward understanding Ifá and its role in contemporary Yoruba and diaspora cultures.

Ifa (Religion) --- Afro-Caribbean cults. --- Orisha religion. --- Divination. --- Yoruba (African people) --- Fa (Religion) --- Ifa --- Ifa (Cult) --- Afro-Caribbean cults --- Cults --- Cults, Afro-Caribbean --- Orisa religion --- Shango --- Shango (Cult) --- Religions --- Augury --- Soothsaying --- Occultism --- Worship --- Art. --- Religion. --- Ifa (Religion). --- Ifa. --- Afro-Caribbean religions.

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How really worth are the African endogenous knowledge and know-how? Why and how can we promote this inheritage, while the so-called western scientific model looks like the best means of knowing and mastering the world? This book answers these questions by examining ifa, a West-African system of knowledge and practices which a narrow knowledge reduces to a fanciful divinatory art, an art then logically "perceived as inconsistent and theoretically useless". Yet, more than a divinatory art, ifa, when we submit it to analysis, appears to be an organized set of knowledge and researches, a science in the making. What makes us really think that way is the intellectual vocation that defines ifa, the rigor of the logical operations that it implies and which recalls in one way or the other the game of implicit mathematics, the objectivity requirement which is valued by the actors of the system and rests on a genuine critical tradition. This opinion is also based on the weight of myths upon which ifa rests and which constitute an important granary where a prominent set of knowledge is packed. Beyond the establishment of the consistency and the limitations of ifa, this book has strived to define a "method" of examination and validation of the knowledge which has emerged out of the official scientific system. In fact, the questions which arise from it are finally intended to give a new foundation to philosophy of sciences and to epistemology.

Ethnoscience --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Ifa (Religion) --- Fa (Religion) --- Ifa --- Ifa (Cult) --- Afro-Caribbean cults --- Cults --- Indigenous knowledge systems --- Traditional knowledge systems (Ethnology) --- Ethnology --- Science --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Ifa.

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Dodson examines the history of traditional religious practices in the Oriente region of contemporary Cuba.

Afro-Caribbean cults --- Sacred space --- Cults, Afro-Caribbean --- Cults --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Holy, The --- Religion and geography --- Holguín (Cuba : Province) --- Oriente (Cuba : Province) --- Religious life and customs. --- Afro-Caribbean religions