Indigeneity in African religions: Ọza worldviews, cosmologies and religious cultures
"Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and use of archival sources, Indigeneity in African Religions explores the historical origins, worldviews, cosmologies, ritual symbolism and praxis of the indigenous Ọza people in south-western Nigeria. The author's locationality and pos...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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London New York Oxford New Delhi Sydney
Bloomsbury Academic
2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Nigeria (Südwest)
/ Indigenous peoples
/ Religion
/ Ritual
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BB Indigenous religions BS Traditional African religions KBN Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
Igbo (African people) (Nigeria, Southwest)
Religion
B Africa Religious life and customs B Africa B Southwest Nigeria B Igbo (African people) (Nigeria, Southwest) Rites and ceremonies |
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Table of Contents Blurb Literaturverzeichnis |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | "Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and use of archival sources, Indigeneity in African Religions explores the historical origins, worldviews, cosmologies, ritual symbolism and praxis of the indigenous Ọza people in south-western 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." -- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-266) and index |
| ISBN: | 1350008265 |