The Gods Are Wise : Yorùbá Sacred Orature and Environmental Sustainability.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernard, Olúwábùnmi Tọ́pẹ́.

Series:

AAR Religion, Culture, and History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmentalism--Africa, West.

Environmentalism.

Environmentalism--Religious aspects.

Yoruba (African people)--Religion.

Yoruba (African people).

Orisha religion.

Africa, West--Environmental conditions.

Africa, West.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

This book explores the dynamism of Yorùbá oral discourse as expressed through a rigorous translation and interpretation of the Yorùbá sacred orature on the existential matter of environmental sustainability for the masses of Nigerians. This is done within the context of dramatic transformations, rapid social change, structural poverty, under-development, and state failure in contemporary Nigerian society. In other words, this book is at the intersection of the dialectical tensions between tradition and modernity.

Contents:

Introduction : thinking about the environment

Environmental crises : what are they about?

Environment, Yorùbá Òrìṣà worship, and other indigenous cultures

Gender and eco-resilience in Yorùbá sacred orature

Antifragility of the environment and the Yorùbá sacred orature

Religion, modernity, and ethical-environmental capacities : continuities in Yorùbá Òrìṣà worship

Sacred trash : paradox of ritual objectification in Yorùbá orature

Last words : in praise of environmentalism.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-783886-3

9780197838860

OCLC:

1574218388