1st Edition
Topographies of African Spirituality Essays in Honor of Jacob K. Olupona
List of figures
List of contributors
Section I: Overture
1.Afe Adogame, Ebenezer Obadare, and Wale Adebanwi
Introduction
2. David Carrasco
Intellectual Nerve and Spiritual Muscle: Homage to Alfredo López Austin and Jacob Olupona
Section II: Beyond Religion? Theorizing and Grounding Everyday Spiritualities
3.James Spickard
Theorizing Religion for a Post-colonial Era
4.Ulrich Berner
The Concept of Sacred Space: Phenomenology of Religion Revisited
5.Marloes Janson
Beyond Religion: Guru Maharaj Ji’s Divine Love Mission
6.Afe Adogame
Digitizing Divination! Deconstructing Indigeneity and New Ways of Knowing in African Spiritual Economies
7.Adriaan van Klinken
A Kenyan Environmental Prophet: Wangari Maathai’s Contribution to the Ecology of Religion
8.Olutayo C. Adesina and Oluwakemi A. Adesina
Making Connections: Christianity and Syncretic Practices in Post-colonial Nigeria
Section III: Gender, Democracy, and the Pragmatics of Development
9.Nimi Wariboko
Disruption and Promise: The Religious Powers of Development
10.Simeon O. Ilesanmi
The Status and Protection of Non-human Objects in Just War Tradition: A Comparative Analysis from an African Perspective
11.Oludamini Ogunnaike
“Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense”: The Continuing Colonial Dialectic of Democracy and Religion in Nigeria
12.Oyeronke Olademo
The Changing and Sustaining Trends of Women's Roles in Yoruba 'Religions' in Africa and the Diaspora
13.Rose Mary Amenga-Etego
Taboos, Rituals and Women’s Spirituality in an African Society
Section IV: Ifa, Islam, and Pentecostalism: Collocating Tradition and Modernity
14.Ayodeji Ogunnaike
Ifa and Traditional Yoruba Interpretations of Christianity
15.Olufemi Vaughan
Pentecostalism and Modern Nigerian Society
16.Adeyemi Balogun
Confronting Religious Pluralism: Islamic Reformers and Yoruba Belief
Section V: The Afro-Atlantic Sacred: Culture, Heritage, and Power
17.Moradewun Adejunmobi
African Immigrant Churches, Heritage Language, and Heritage Culture in North America
18.Laura S. Grillo
Catching Bullets with Buttocks: The “Obscene” African Power of Queen Nanny of the Jamaican Maroons
19.Kyrah Malika Daniels
Mapping Africana Spiritual Nationhood: AfroAtlantic Citizenship, Civil Religion, and Sacred Spirit Oaths
20.Akintunde E. Akinade
Let Somebody Soulfully Shout Hallelujah: Soundings on African Pentecostalism and Renewal in the
Diaspora
Section VI: Epilogue
21.Ayodeji Ogunnaike
Intellectual Biography for Professor Jacob Kehinde Olupona
Index
Biography
Afe Adogame is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Religion and Society at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA.
Ebenezer Obadare is Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Washington, DC, USA.
Wale Adebanwi is Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies and Director of the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
