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Christianity, Islam, and Orisa-Religion
J.D.Y. Peel
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University of California Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Religion/Theologie
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The Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria are exceptional for the copresence among them of three religious traditions: Islam, Christianity, and the indigenous
orisa religion. In this comparative study, at once historical and anthropological, Peel explores the intertwined character of the three religions and the dense imbrication of religion in all aspects of Yoruba history up to the present. For over 400 years, the Yoruba have straddled two geocultural spheres: one reaching north over the Sahara to the world of Islam, the other linking them to the Euro-American world via the Atlantic. These two external spheres were the source of contrasting cultural influences, notably those emanating from the world religions. However, the Yoruba not only imported Islam and Christianity but also exported their own
orisa religion to the New World. Before the voluntary modern diaspora that has brought many Yoruba to Europe and the Americas, tens of thousands were sold as slaves in the New World, bringing with them the worship of the
orisa.
Peel offers deep insight into important contemporary themes such as religious conversion, new religious movements, relations between world religions, the conditions of religious violence, the transnational flows of contemporary religion, and the interplay between tradition and the demands of an ever-changing present. In the process, he makes a major theoretical contribution to the anthropology of world religions.
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slave religion, world religions, african studies, yoruba islam, comparative religion, indigenous religion, orisa in the new world, christianity in nigeria, yoruba history, anthropology, interfaith communities, african christianity, religious conversion in africa, islam in nigeria, religious violence, yoruba, religious studies, subsaharan islam, west african religion, new religious movements, orisa, african religions, contemporary religion, islam, religious traditions, history of religion in nigeria, christianity