{"product_id":"osun-across-the-waters-9780253214591","title":"Osun across the Waters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreliminary Table of Contents:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrations\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eOrthography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Introduction:\u003cbr\u003eJoseph M. Murphy and Mei-Mei Sanford\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Hidden Power: Osun the Seventeenth Odu\u003cbr\u003eRowland Abiodun\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 A River of Many Turns: the Polysemy of Ochún in Afro-Cuban Tradition\u003cbr\u003eIsabel Castellanos\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Orisa Osun: Yoruba Sacred Kingship and Civil Religion in Osogbo, Nigeria\u003cbr\u003eJacob Olupona\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Nesta Cidade Todo Mundo E D'Oxum, In This City Everyone is Oxum's\u003cbr\u003eIeda M. R. dos Santos\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Mãe Menininha\u003cbr\u003eManuel Vega\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e7 Yéyé Cachita: Ochún in a Cuban Mirror\u003cbr\u003eJoseph M. Murphy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Oshun Brass: An Insight into Yoruba Religious Symbology\u003cbr\u003eC.O. Adepegba\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Overflowing with Beauty: Ochún Altars in Lucumi Aesthetics\u003cbr\u003eYsamur Flores-Peña\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Authority and Discourse in the Orin Odún Osun\u003cbr\u003eDiedre Badejo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 The Bag of Wisdom: Osun and the Origins of Ifa Divination\u003cbr\u003e'Wande Abimbola\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 Ochún in the Bronx\u003cbr\u003e George Brandon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 What Part of the River You're In: African American Women in Devotion to Òsun\u003cbr\u003eRachel Elizabeth Harding\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14 Eerindinlogun: the Seeing Eyes of Sacred Shells and Stones\u003cbr\u003eDavid Ogungbile\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15 Mama Oxum: Reflections of Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Umbanda\u003cbr\u003eLindsay Hale\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16 An Oxum Shelters Children in São Paulo\u003cbr\u003eTânia Cypriano\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17 Living Water: Osun, Mami Wata, and Olokun in the Lives of Four Contemporary Nigerian Christian Women\u003cbr\u003eMei-Mei Sanford\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18 Orchestration of the Waters and the Breeze: the Emblems of Oshun in Atlantic Perspective\u003cbr\u003eRobert Farris Thompson \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400646271319,"sku":"9780253214591","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253214591.jpg?v=1730471199","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/osun-across-the-waters-9780253214591","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}