Religion
Religion
Spirit, Structure, and Flesh: Gendered Experiences in African Instituted Churches among the Yoruba of Nigeria (hardcover)
Although popularized in Africa by Western missionaries, the Christian faith as practiced by Africans has acquired unique traits over time. Some of the most radical reinterpretations of Christianity are offered by those churches known as “AICs” (variously, African Initiated, African...
$50.00
Spirit, Structure, and Flesh: Gender and Power in Yoruba African Instituted Churches
Although popularized in Africa by Western missionaries, the Christian faith as practiced by Africans has acquired unique traits over time. Some of the most radical reinterpretations of Christianity are offered by those churches known as “AICs” (variously, African Initiated, African...
$29.95
SPEAK YORUBA IN 24 HOURS: An Ideal Teach-Yourself Book for those Learning Yoruba as a 2nd Language
$12.99
SPEAK YORUBA IN 24 HOURS: An Ideal Teach-Yourself Book for those Learning Yoruba as a 2nd Language
This Yoruba grammar book is for the use of beginners who want to learn Yoruba and those who want to speak it as a second language (L2). Target Users are:■ Those who marry Yoruba spouses■ Yoruba children born abroad■ Yorubas...
$12.99
The Souls of Yoruba Folk: Indigeneity, Race, and Critical Spiritual Literacy in the African Diaspora
$66.00
The Souls of Yoruba Folk: Indigeneity, Race, and Critical Spiritual Literacy in the African Diaspora
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...
$66.00
The Sociological Role of the Yoruba Cult-Group
American Anthropologist, New Series, V46, No. 1, Part 2. Additional Editors Are F. H. H. Roberts, Jr., And Melville Jacobs.
$22.95
Singing Yoruba Christianity: Music, Media, and Morality (paperback)
Singing the same song is a central part of the worship practice for members for the Cherubim and Seraphim Christian Church in Lagos, Nigeria. Vicki L. Brennan reveals that by singing together, church members create one spiritual mind and become...
$30.00
Singing Yoruba Christianity: Music, Media, and Morality (hardcover)
Singing the same song is a central part of the worship practice for members for the Cherubim and Seraphim Christian Church in Lagos, Nigeria. Vicki L. Brennan reveals that by singing together, church members create one spiritual mind and become...
$122.00
The Significance of Verbal Art in the Yorùbá Indigenous Healthcare
The study focuses on the Yorùbá verbal arts used in indigenous healthcare system. It shows how some of them are relevant to the orthodox healthcare delivery system. The issue of the utilitarian nature of indigenous literature (orature) and art in...
$101.49
Shadow Mothers: Awon Ìyàmi Òṣòrọ̀ngà: Perspectives on Witchcraft in the Yorùbá Tradition
$22.98
Shadow Mothers: Awon Ìyàmi Òṣòrọ̀ngà: Perspectives on Witchcraft in the Yorùbá Tradition
Awọn Ìyàmi Òṣòrọ̀ngà is one of the most fascinating - and controversial - aspects of Òrìsà Lifestyle. And while much has been said about the subject, most attempts seem to add more confusion than clarity. SHADOW MOTHERS is a comprehensive...
$22.98
Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion
$34.95
Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion
J. Lorand Matory researches the trans-Atlantic comings and goings of Yoruba religion, as well as ethnic diversity in Black North America. With the support of the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the...
$34.95
Seventeen Years in the Yoruba Country: Memorials of Anna Hinderer, Wife of the Rev. David Hinderer, C.M.S. Missionary in Western Africa (paperback)
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
$24.95
Seventeen Years in the Yoruba Country: Memorials of Anna Hinderer (hardcover)
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
$36.95
Seventeen Years in the Yoruba Country: Memorials of Anna Hinderer ... Gathered From Her Journals and Letters. With an Introduction by Richard B. Hone (paperback)
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
$24.95
Seventeen Years in the Yoruba Country. Memorials of Anna Hinderer
Compiled by Anna Martin Hinderer, with additions by C.A. and D. Hone, Seventeen Years in the Yoruba Country is a fascinating memoir of Anna's time living and working among the Yoruba people in Nigeria in the late 19th century. This...
$36.95
Santeria: The Definitive Guide to Cuban Santeria, Orishas, Yoruba History and the Rules for Becoming Iyawò
Want to know the secrets of Cuban santeria? Do you want to cultivate your spiritual energy? Do you want to discover which is your Orisha? Hundreds of years ago, the Yoruba people of Nigeria and West Africa were brought to...
$22.98
Sanctity of Human Life in the Old Testament and Yoruba Worldview
Globally, the rate at which people violate the sanctity of human life at this time is alarming. Terrorism, assassination, kidnapping, human trafficking, and abortion are a few instances of this phenomenon. This study concerns itself with the inconsistency between the...
$83.00
Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba
In this magisterial book, J. D. Y. Peel contends that it is through their encounter with Christian missions in the mid-19th century that the Yoruba came to know themselves as a distinctive people. Peel's detailed study of the encounter is...
$44.00
LA RELIGION YORUBA (Spanish Edition)
Santeria -mix of catholic and black slave and how the Yoruba religion was able to survive under the radar.
$25.00
Raíces Entretejidas: España y Cuba. religión yoruba (Spanish Edition)
Raíces Entretejidas, es una exploración que sumerge al lector en la fascinante conexión entre España y Cuba, desentrañando los misterios del sincretismo religioso que dio origen a la religión yoruba en la isla caribeña. A través de la mirada apasionada...
$6.98
Proverbs of a Highly Inspired Yoruba Man
Historically Yorùbá proverbs have been used to communicate the weight of words and how important it is to look beyond what meets the eyes generally. Popularly said is "Òwe l'ẹşin ọrọ" loosely meaning 'Proverbs are the horse with which words...
$19.98
Proverbs of a Highly Inspired Yoruba Man
Historically Yorùbá proverbs have been used to communicate the weight of words and how important it is to look beyond what meets the eyes generally. Popularly said is "Òwe l'ẹşin ọrọ" loosely meaning 'Proverbs are the horse with which words...
$19.99
Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel: I. B. Thomas's 'Life Story of Me, Segilola' and Other Texts (African Sources for African History, 12)
First appearing as a series of letters to a local newspaper, "The Life Story of Me, Segilola" caused a sensation in Lagos in the late 1920s. The lifelike autobiography of a repentant courtesan, it regaled the reader with risqué escapades,...
$122.00
Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel: I. B. Thomas's 'Life Story of Me, Segilola' and Other Texts (African Sources for African History, 12)
First appearing as a series of letters to a local newspaper, "The Life Story of Me, Segilola" caused a sensation in Lagos in the late 1920s. The lifelike autobiography of a repentant courtesan, it regaled the reader with risqué escapades,...
$122.00
Princess Aina: Queen Victoria's Yoruba Godchild
Born to the chief of the Yoruba Egbado Tribe in Oke-Odan, Aina survived a raid by King Ghezo of Dahomey at a young age. Before the king could use her for a religious sacrifice, Captain Frederick E. Forbes negotiated her...
$14.95
PRIMEROS PASOS EN LA SANTERIA: RELIGION YORUBA (spanish edition)
Después de haber servido mas de treinta años en Cuba, el autor, después de problemas de salud, ha recibido el apoyo de la religión yoruba, más conocida como Santería.La religión yoruba está muy extendida en Africa y América Latina, practicada...
$18.00
Prieto
This Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773–c. 1835), a member of the West African Yoruba people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Richly situating Prieto's story...
$90.00
Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions (hardcover)
This Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773–c. 1835), a member of the West African Yoruba people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Richly situating Prieto's story...
$144.00
A Portrait of Osun, A Yoruba Goddess in Osogbo and the Americas: A Yoruba Goddess
This book provides us with more information about Osun Osogbo and Osun in Americas. Our three areas of study are myth as a form of oral literature and poetic elements for religious studies; the Osun annual festival in Osogbo and...
$24.00
Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town
Elisha Renne focuses on things associated with the human body -- such as houses, graves, hymens, blood, and bones -- as a concrete means for analyzing new ideas of fertility in an Ekiti Yoruba town in Southwestern Nigeria. By looking...
$55.00