Christianity, Islam, and Oriṣa-religion : three traditions in comparison and interaction /
"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 strongly comparative study, at once historical and anthropological, Peel explores the intertwined character of the thr...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Anthropology of Christianity ;
18. |
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Table of Contents:
- History, culture and the comparative method: a West African puzzle
- Two pastors and their histories: Samuel Johnson and C.C. Reindorf
- A comparative analysis of Ogun in pre-colonial Yorubaland
- Modes of religiosity in West Africa
- Post-socialism, post-colonialism, Pentecostalism
- Context, tradition and the anthropology of world religions
- Conversion and community among the Yoruba
- Yoruba ethnogenesis and the trajectory of Islam
- A century of interplay between Christianity and Islam
- Pentecostalism and Salafism in Nigeria: mirror-images?
- The three circles of Yoruba religion.
