The souls of Yoruba folk : race, religion and the politics of indigenous spirituality in the African diaspora / Temitope E. Adefarakan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adefarakan, Temitope E., 1974- author.

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

Black studies & critical thinking ; v. 70.

Black studies & critical thinking

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yoruba (African people)--Canada--Ethnic identity.

Yoruba (African people).

Yoruba (African people)--Religion.

Yoruba diaspora.

African diaspora--Psychological aspects.

African diaspora.

Ifa--Canada.

Ifa.

Ifa (Religion).

Psychological aspects.

Ethnicity.

Canada.

Cosmology, African.

Physical Description:

xv, 169 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, 2015.

Summary:

The Souls of Yoruba Folk explores the spiritual lives and experiences of sixteen Africans of Yoruba descent in Canada, and investigates how they make meaning of their Indigenous heritage within the geopolitical space of Eurocentric Canadian culture. The book highlights how Yoruba peoples in the African diaspora strategically utilize their Indigenous spiritual knowledges as decolonizing tools of navigation, subversion, and resistance to colonial oppression in the purportedly 'multicultural' space of Canada. The author powerfully weaves together literature of Yoruba peoples from multiple contexts, spanning the African continent and its diaspora, including the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and Europe. With its strong emphasis on equity and the usefulness of spirituality in contexts of schooling, education, teaching, and learning, The Souls of Yoruba Folk is ideal for critical and multicultural education courses, and will be especially useful for educators and researchers in the areas of critical interdisciplinary studies, sociology, women's studies/feminism, anti-racist scholarship and pedagogy, critical education, Canadian studies, equity and religious studies, and African/Black diasporic studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

A call to the souls of Yoruba folk

Theories of "diasporic indigeneity" and black feminisms : living and imagining indigeneity differently

In dialogue with the souls of Yoruba folk: engaging a Yoruba worldsense

Overtly Christian, covertly Yoruba

At a crossroads: Esu, language and the politics of spiritual literacy

"They're not always right but they're older" : the polemics and paradoxes of seniority in Yoruba (indigenous) culture

The response "ohun ti o wa leyin offa, o ju oje lo" [what follows is more than seven]

An open letter to teachers : pedagogical implications and applications of the souls of Yoruba folk.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Toronto, 2011, issued under the title: Yoruba indigenous knowledges in the African diaspora : knowledge, power and the politics of indigenous spirituality.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-169) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1433126087

9781433126093

1433126095

9781433126086

9781453915837

1453915834

OCLC:

907621750

Publisher Number:

99963538450