Indigeneity in African Religions

Oza Worldviews, Cosmologies and Religious Cultures

Dr Afe Adogame (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-27435-8 (ISBN)

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Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and archival data, Indigeneity in African Religions explores the historical origins, worldviews, cosmologies, ritual symbolism and praxis of the indigenous Oza people in South West Nigeria. The author’s locationality and positionality plugs the book within decolonizing knowledges and indigeneity discourses, thus unpacking the complexity of “indigeneity” and contributing to its conceptual understanding within socioreligious change in contemporary Africa.

The future of Oza indigeneity in the face of modernity is illuminated against the backlash of encounters, contestations with multiple hegemonies, transmissions of Christianity and Islam and indigenous (re)appropriations. Thus, any theorizations of such encounters must be cognizant of instantiations of indigeneity politics and identity, culture, tradition and power dynamics. Through decolonizing burdens of history, memory and method, Afe Adogame demonstrates a framework of understanding Oza indigenous religious,sociocultural and political imaginaries.

Afe Adogame is the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Religion and Society and Chair of the History and Ecumenics Department, Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, USA. He is also Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and author of The African Christian Diaspora (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013).

Image List
Preface
1. Decolonizing History, Memory and Method
2. Historical Origins, Migration Narratives, Relationship with Neighbours
3. Worldviews, Religious Cosmologies, Spiritual Agency
4. Genealogies of Kinship and Sacral Kingship
5. Kingship Myth, Leadership Succession and Legal Imbroglios (1991-2011)
6. Rituals of Passage
7. Gendering Rituals
8. The Future of ?za Indigeneity in the Face of African Modernity
Oral Sources
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.06.2023
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	1-350-27435-6 / 1350274356
ISBN-13	978-1-350-27435-8 / 9781350274358
Zustand	Neuware