This book explores African spirituality inside and outside of religion, investigating African traditions and perceptions in the study of spirituality across Africa and the African diaspora. It provides an interdisciplinary reflection on key issues in the field and sheds light on everyday experiences. In particular, the volume celebrates the work and mentorship of Professor Jacob K. Olupona, a leading figure in the study of African spiritualities, religions in Africa, and methodological approaches to the study of religion. With chapters by an impressive range of scholars from institutions across Africa, Europe, and North America, this book makes a valuable empirical and theoretical contribution to the development of African religious studies.
This book explores African spirituality inside and outside of religion, investigating African traditions and perceptions in the study of spirituality across Africa and the African diaspora. It provides an interdisciplinary reflection on key issues in the field and sheds light on everyday experiences.
List of figures; List of contributors; Section I Overture
1.
Introduction;
2. Intellectual Nerve and Spiritual Muscle: Homage to Alfredo
López Austin and Jacob Olupona; Section II: Beyond Religion? Theorizing and
Grounding Everyday Spiritualities
3. Theorizing Religion for a
Post-colonial Era;
4. The Concept of Sacred Space Phenomenology of Religion
Revisited;
5. Beyond Religion: Guru Maharaj Jis Divine Love Mission;
6.
Digitizing Divination! Deconstructing Indigeneity and New Ways of Knowing in
African Spiritual Economies;
7. A Kenyan Environmental Prophet: Wangari
Maathais Contribution to the Ecology of Religion;
8. Making Connections:
Christianity and Synrectic Practices in Post-colonial Nigeria; Section III:
Gender, Democracy, and the Pragmatics of Development
9. Disruption and
Promise: The Religious Powers of Development;
10. The Status and Protection
of Non-human Objects in Just War Tradition: A Comparative Analysis from an
African perspective;
11. Teacher Dont Teach Me Nonsense: The Continuing
Colonial Dialectic of Democracy and Religion in Nigeria;
12. The Changing and
Sustaining Trends of Women's Roles in Yoruba 'Religions' in Africa and the
African Diaspora;
13. Taboos, Rituals, and Womens Spirituality in an African
Society; Section IV: Ifa, Islam, and Pentecostalism: Collocating Tradition
and Modernity
14. Ifa and Traditional Yoruba Interpretations of
Christianity;
15. Pentecostalism and Modern Nigerian Society;
16. Confronting
Religious Pluralism: Islamic Reformers and Yoruba Belief; Section V: The
Afro-Atlantic Sacred: Culture, Heritage, and Power
17. African Immigrant
Churches, Heritage Language, and Heritage Culture in North America;
18.
Catching Bullets with Buttocks: The Obscene African Power of Queen Nanny of
the Jamaican Maroons;
19. Mapping Africana Spiritual Nationhood: AfroAtlantic
Citizenship, Civil Religion, and Sacred Spirit Oaths;
20. Let Somebody
Soulfully Shout Hallelujah: Soundings on African Pentecostalism and Renewal
in the Diaspora; Section VI: Epilogue
21. Intellectual Biography for
Professor Jacob Kehinde Olupona; Index.
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.
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