Osun across the waters : a Yoruba goddess in Africa and the Americas

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Joseph M.

Contributor:

Sanford, Mei-Mei.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cult.

Osun (Yoruba deity).

Osun (Yoruba deity)--Cult--Africa, West.

Local Subjects:

Cult.

Osun (Yoruba deity).

Osun (Yoruba deity)--Cult--Africa, West.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Osun is a brilliant deity whose imagery and worldwide devotion demand broad and deep scholarly reflection. Contributors to the ground-breaking Africa s Ogun, edited by Sandra Barnes (Indiana University Press, 1997), explored the complex nature of Ogun, the orisa who transforms life through iron and technology. Osun across the Waters continues this exploration of Yoruba religion by documenting Osun religion. Osun presents a dynamic example of the resilience and renewed importance of traditional Yoruba images in negotiating spiritual experience, social identity, and political power in contemporary Africa and the African diaspora. The 17 contributors to Osun across the Waters delineate the special dimensions of Osun religion as it appears through multiple disciplines in multiple cultural contexts. Tracing the extent of Osun traditions takes us across the waters and back again. Osun traditions continue to grow and change as they flow and return from their sources in Africa and the Americas. "

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Orthography; 1. Introduction; 2. Hidden Power: Òsun, the Seventeenth Odù; 3. A River of Many Turns: The Polysemy of Ochún in Afro-Cuban Tradition; 4. Òrìsà Òsun: Yoruba Sacred Kingship and Civil Religion in Òsogobo, Nigeria; 5. Nesta Cidade Todo Mundo é d'Oxum: In This City Everyone Is Oxum's; 6.Mãe Menininha; 7. Yéyé Cachita: Ochún in a Cuban Mirror; 8. Osun and Brass: An Insight into Yoruba Religious Symbology; 9. Overflowing with Beauty: The Ochún Altar in Lucumí Aesthetic Tradition; 10. Authority and Discourse in the Orin Odún Òsun

11. The Bag of Wisdom: Òsun and the Origins of the Ifá Divination12. Ochun in the Bronx; 13.What Part of the River You're InŽ: African American Women in Devotion to Òsun; 14. Eéríndínlógún: The Seeing Eyes of Sacred Shells and Stones; 15. Mama Oxum: Reflections of Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Umbanda; 16. An Oxum Shelters Children in São Paulo; 17. Living Water: Òsun, Mami Wata, and Olókùn in the Lives of Four Contemporary Nigerian Christian Women; 18. Orchestrating Water and the Wind: Oshun's Art in Atlantic Context; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-282-06610-2

0-253-10863-2

OCLC:

56633967