Christianity, Islam and Orisa-religion : three traditions in comparison and interaction /

"The Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria are exceptional for the copresence among them of three religious traditions: Islam, Christianity, and the indigenous orisa-religion. In this strongly comparative study, at once historical and anthropological, Peel explores the intertwined character of the thr...

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Autor Principal: Peel, J. D. Y. (John David Yeadon), 1941- (Author)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Series:Anthropology of Christianity ; 18.
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Table of Contents:
  • History, culture and the comparative method: a West African puzzle
  • Two pastors and their histories: Samuel Johnson and C.C. Reindorf
  • A comparative analysis of Ogun in pre-colonial Yorubaland
  • Modes of religiosity in West Africa
  • Post-socialism, post-colonialism, Pentecostalism
  • Context, tradition and the anthropology of world religions
  • Conversion and community among the Yoruba
  • Yoruba ethnogenesis and the trajectory of Islam
  • A century of interplay between Christianity and Islam
  • Pentecostalism and Salafism in Nigeria: mirror-images?
  • The three circles of Yoruba religion.