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What are African religions? African Religions: A Very Short Introduction answers this question by examining primarily indigenous religious traditions on the African continent, as well as exploring Christianity and Islam. It focuses on the diversity of ethnic groups, languages, cultures, and worldviews, emphasizing the continent's regional diversity. Olupona examines a wide range of African religious traditions on their own terms and in their social, cultural, and political contexts. For example, the book moves beyond ethnographic descriptions and interpretations of core beliefs and practices to look at how African religion has engaged issues of socioeconomic development and power relations. --Publisher.

Religion and culture --- Africa --- Religion. --- Religious life and customs. --- Culture and religion --- Culture

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In a study that challenges familiar Western modes of thought, Jacob K. Olupona focuses on one of the most important religious centers in Africa and in the world: the Yorùbá city of Ilé-Ifè in southwest Nigeria. The spread of Yorùbá traditions in the African diaspora has come to define the cultural identity of millions of black and white people in Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and the United States. Seen through the eyes of a native, this first comprehensive study of the spiritual and cultural center of the Yorùbá religion tells how the city went from great prominence to near obliteration and then rose again as a contemporary city of gods. Throughout, Olupona corroborates the indispensable linkages between religion, cosmology, migration, and kinship as espoused in the power of royal lineages, hegemonic state structure, gender, and the Yorùbá sense of place, offering the fullest portrait to date of this sacred African city.

Yoruba (African people) --- Gods, Yoruba --- Religious pluralism --- Religion and politics --- Religions --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic identities --- Ethnic nations (Ethnic groups) --- Groups, Ethnic --- Kindred groups (Ethnic groups) --- Nationalities (Ethnic groups) --- Peoples (Ethnic groups) --- Ethnology --- Pluralism (Religion) --- Pluralism --- Religion --- Gods, Yoruba (African people) --- Yoruba gods --- Gods, Umbanda --- Yariba (African people) --- Yooba (African people) --- Yorubas --- Religion. --- History. --- African influences. --- Ife (Nigeria) --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Ile-Ife (Nigeria) --- Ethnic groups - Africa - Religion. --- RELIGION / Comparative Religion --- Africa --- History --- Nigeria --- African influences --- Ife --- africa. --- african diaspora. --- african religion. --- brazil. --- city of gods. --- colonialism. --- comparative religion. --- cosmology. --- cuba. --- diaspora. --- empire. --- gender. --- immigration. --- imperialism. --- kinship. --- migration. --- motherland. --- mythology. --- nigeria. --- nonfiction. --- puerto rico. --- religion. --- royalty. --- sacred places. --- spirituality. --- trinidad. --- western world. --- yoruba religion. --- yoruba.

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Sociology of religion --- Africa --- 299.6 --- 266.2*0 <6> --- Religious pluralism --- -Theology, Doctrinal --- -Christianity --- Religions --- Church history --- Christian doctrines --- Christianity --- Doctrinal theology --- Doctrines, Christian --- Dogmatic theology --- Fundamental theology --- Systematic theology --- Theology, Dogmatic --- Theology, Systematic --- Theology --- Pluralism (Religion) --- Pluralism --- Religion --- Godsdiensten van Bantoes, Niloten, Soedannegers, Pygmeeën, Kaffers, Hottentotten, Bosjesmannen, Galla's, Bassuto's, Zoeloes --- Lokale theologieën. Indigenisatie. Acculturatie--(algemeen)--Afrika --- Doctrines --- Mbiti, John S. --- Religion. --- Theology, Doctrinal --- -Godsdiensten van Bantoes, Niloten, Soedannegers, Pygmeeën, Kaffers, Hottentotten, Bosjesmannen, Galla's, Bassuto's, Zoeloes --- 266.2*0 <6> Lokale theologieën. Indigenisatie. Acculturatie--(algemeen)--Afrika --- 299.6 Godsdiensten van Afrikaanse zwarte volkeren --- 299.6 Godsdiensten van Bantoes, Niloten, Soedannegers, Pygmeeën, Kaffers, Hottentotten, Bosjesmannen, Galla's, Bassuto's, Zoeloes --- Godsdiensten van Afrikaanse zwarte volkeren --- -299.6 Godsdiensten van Afrikaanse zwarte volkeren --- Theology [Doctrinal ] --- Mbiti, John --- Mbiti, John Samuel

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Pentecostal pastors enjoy an unprecedented authority in contemporary Nigerian society, exerting significant influence on politics, public policy, popular culture, and the moral imagination. In Pastoral Power, Clerical State, Ebenezer Obadare investigates the social origins of clerical authority in modern-day Nigeria with an eye to parallel developments and patterns within the broader African society. Obadare focuses on the figure of the pastor as a bearer of political power, thaumaturgical expertise, and sexual attractiveness who wields significant influence on his church members. This study makes an important contribution to the literature on global Pentecostalism. Obadare situates the figure of the pastor within the wider context of national politics and culture and as a beneficiary of the dislocations of the postcolonial society in Africa’s most populous country. Obadare calls our attention to the creative ways in which Nigeria’s Pentecostal pastors utilize religious doctrines, beckon spiritual forces, and manipulate their alliances with national powerbrokers to consolidate their influence and authority. In contrast to rapidly eroding pastoral authority in the West, pastoral authority is increasing in Nigeria. This engaging book will appeal to those who want to understand the far-reaching political and social implications of religious movements—especially Christian charismatic and evangelical movements—in contemporary African societies. It will be of interest to scholars and students of sociology, religion, political science, and African studies.

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Gods, Yoruba --- Orishas --- Yoruba (African people) --- Religion