03264nam 22006855 450 99624829100331620211014031101.00-520-26556-410.1525/9780520948549(CKB)2670000000609408(EBL)2014975(SSID)ssj0001458251(PQKBManifestationID)12556809(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001458251(PQKBWorkID)11444384(PQKB)11777186(MiAaPQ)EBC2014975(DE-B1597)518999(OCoLC)908073439(DE-B1597)9780520948549(EXLCZ)99267000000060940820200424h20112011 fg 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrCity of 201 Gods Ilé-Ifè in Time, Space, and the Imagination /Jacob OluponaBerkeley, CA :University of California Press,[2011]©20111 online resource (356 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-26555-6 0-520-94854-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --List of Illustrations --Preface --Introduction --Part I --Part II --Part III --Notes --Bibliography --IndexIn a study that challenges familiar Western modes of thought, Jacob K. Olupona focuses on one of the most important religious centers in Africa and in the world: the Yorùbá city of Ilé-Ifè in southwest Nigeria. The spread of Yorùbá traditions in the African diaspora has come to define the cultural identity of millions of black and white people in Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and the United States. Seen through the eyes of a native, this first comprehensive study of the spiritual and cultural center of the Yorùbá religion tells how the city went from great prominence to near obliteration and then rose again as a contemporary city of gods. Throughout, Olupona corroborates the indispensable linkages between religion, cosmology, migration, and kinship as espoused in the power of royal lineages, hegemonic state structure, gender, and the Yorùbá sense of place, offering the fullest portrait to date of this sacred African city.Yoruba (African people)NigeriaIfeReligionGods, YorubaHistoryReligious pluralismNigeriaReligion and politicsNigeriaReligionsAfrican influencesEthnic groupsAfricaReligionIfe (Nigeria)ReligionAfrica, Sub-SaharanReligionElectronic books.Yoruba (African people)Religion.Gods, YorubaHistory.Religious pluralismReligion and politicsReligionsAfrican influences.Ethnic groupsReligion.299.6299.683330966926Olupona Jacobauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1016151DE-B1597BOOK996248291003316City of 201 Gods2376264UNISA