TY  - GEN
AU  - Peel,J.D.Y.
TI  - Christianity, Islam, and Oriá¹£a Religion: Three Traditions in Comparison and Interaction
SN  - luminos.8
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Regional & national history
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Comparative religion
KW  - History of religion
KW  - Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
KW  - yoruba people
KW  - yoruba religion
KW  - african history
KW  - african studies
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Ibadan
KW  - Islam
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Pentecostalism
N1  - Open Access
N2  - "The Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria are exceptional for the copresence among them of three religious traditions: Islam, Christianity, and the indigenous oriá¹£a religion. In this comparative study, at once historical and anthropological, Peel explores the intertwined character of the three religions and the dense imbrication of religion in all aspects of Yoruba history up to the present. For over 400 years, the Yoruba have straddled two geocultural spheres: one reaching north over the Sahara to the world of Islam, the other linking them to the Euro-American world via the Atlantic. These two external spheres were the source of contrasting cultural influences, notably those emanating from the world religions. However, the Yoruba not only imported Islam and Christianity but also exported their own oriá¹£a religion to the New World. Before the voluntary modern diaspora that has brought many Yoruba to Europe and the Americas, tens of thousands were sold as slaves in the New World, bringing with them the worship of the oriá¹£a. Peel offers deep insight into important contemporary themes such as religious conversion, new religious movements, relations between world religions, the conditions of religious violence, the transnational flows of contemporary religion, and the interplay between tradition and the demands of an ever-changing present. In the process, he makes a major theoretical contribution to the anthropology of world religions."
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32857/1/602283.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32857/1/602283.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32857/1/602283.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38359
ER  -