Description
Book SynopsisA collection of essays exploring the many dimensions of the Yoruba deity Osun in Africa and the Americas. It presents an 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.
Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents:
Illustrations
Preface
Orthography
1 Introduction:
Joseph M. Murphy and Mei-Mei Sanford
2 Hidden Power: Osun the Seventeenth Odu
Rowland Abiodun
3 A River of Many Turns: the Polysemy of Ochún in Afro-Cuban Tradition
Isabel Castellanos
4 Orisa Osun: Yoruba Sacred Kingship and Civil Religion in Osogbo, Nigeria
Jacob Olupona
5 Nesta Cidade Todo Mundo E D'Oxum, In This City Everyone is Oxum's
Ieda M. R. dos Santos
6 Mãe Menininha
Manuel Vega
7 Yéyé Cachita: Ochún in a Cuban Mirror
Joseph M. Murphy
8 Oshun Brass: An Insight into Yoruba Religious Symbology
C.O. Adepegba
9 Overflowing with Beauty: Ochún Altars in Lucumi Aesthetics
Ysamur Flores-Peña
10 Authority and Discourse in the Orin Odún Osun
Diedre Badejo
11 The Bag of Wisdom: Osun and the Origins of Ifa Divination
'Wande Abimbola
12 Ochún in the Bronx
George Brandon
13 What Part of the River You're In: African American Women in Devotion to Òsun
Rachel Elizabeth Harding
14 Eerindinlogun: the Seeing Eyes of Sacred Shells and Stones
David Ogungbile
15 Mama Oxum: Reflections of Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Umbanda
Lindsay Hale
16 An Oxum Shelters Children in São Paulo
Tânia Cypriano
17 Living Water: Osun, Mami Wata, and Olokun in the Lives of Four Contemporary Nigerian Christian Women
Mei-Mei Sanford
18 Orchestration of the Waters and the Breeze: the Emblems of Oshun in Atlantic Perspective
Robert Farris Thompson
Contributors
Index
