| City of 201 Gods: Ilé-Ifè in Time, Space, and the Imagination Contributor(s): Olupona, Jacob (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520265556 ISBN-13: 9780520265554 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Ethnic & Tribal - Religion | Comparative Religion |
| Dewey: 299.683 |
| LCCN: 2010021799 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.35 lbs) 356 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Yor b city of Il -If in southwest Nigeria. The spread of Yor b 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 Yor b 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 Yor b sense of place, offering the fullest portrait to date of this sacred African city. |