Christianity, Islam, and Orisa-Religion : : Three Traditions in Comparison and Interaction / / J.D.Y. Peel.

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Place / Publishing House:Berkeley, CA : : University of California Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2016
2015
Language:English
Series:The Anthropology of Christianity ; 18
Physical Description:1 online resource (310 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations Appearing in the Text and Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I
  • 1. History, Culture, and the Comparative Method: A West African Puzzle
  • 2. Two Pastors and Their Histories: Samuel Johnson and C. C. Reindorf
  • 3. Ogun in Precolonial Yorubaland: A Comparative Analysis
  • 4. Divergent Modes of Religiosity in West Africa
  • 5. Postsocialism, Postcolonialism, Pentecostalism
  • Part II
  • 6. Context, Tradition, and the Anthropology of World Religions
  • 7. Conversion and Community in Yorubaland
  • 8. Yoruba Ethnogenesis and the Trajectory of Islam
  • 9. A Century of Interplay Between Islam and Christianity
  • 10. Pentecostalism and Salafism in Nigeria: Mirror Images?
  • 11. The Three Circles of Yoruba Religion
  • Glossary of Yoruba and Arabic Terms Appearing in the Text and Notes
  • Notes
  • Index