Christianity, Islam and Orisa-religion : : three traditions in comparison and interaction / / J.D.Y. Peel.
"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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| Superior document: | The anthropology of Christianity ; 18 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oakland, California : : University of California Press,, [2016] 2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Anthropology of Christianity ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 pages). |
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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.