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City of 201 Gods : Ilé-Ifè in Time, Space, and the Imagination / Jacob Olupona.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olupona, Jacob K. (Jacob Kẹhinde), 1951- Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yoruba (African people)--Nigeria--Ife--Religion.
- Yoruba (African people).
- Gods, Yoruba--History.
- Gods, Yoruba.
- Religious pluralism--Nigeria.
- Religious pluralism.
- Religion and politics--Nigeria.
- Religion and politics.
- Religions--African influences.
- Religions.
- Ethnic groups--Africa--Religion.
- Ethnic groups.
- Ife (Nigeria)--Religion.
- Ife (Nigeria).
- Africa, Sub-Saharan--Religion.
- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (356 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Ilâe-ifáe in time, space, and the imagination
- City of two hundred one gods
- City of two hundred and one gods
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 Yorùbá city of Ilé-Ifè in southwest Nigeria. The spread of Yorùbá 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 Yorùbá 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 Yorùbá sense of place, offering the fullest portrait to date of this sacred African city.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I
- Part II
- Part III
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780520265561
- 0520265564
- OCLC:
- 908073439
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