Topographies of African Spirituality

Ebenezer Obadare is Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Washington, D.C., USA. Wale Adebanwi is Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies and Director, Center for Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania. Afe Adogame is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Religion and Society at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA.

List of tables; 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 Ji’s Divine Love Mission; 6. Digitizing Divination! Deconstructing Indigeneity and New Ways of Knowing in African Spiritual Economies; 7. A Kenyan Environmental Prophet: Wangari Maathai’s Contribution to the Ecology of Religion; 8. Yoruba Spirituality in Everyday Life; 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 Don’t Teach Me Nonsense”: The Continuing Colonial Dialectic of Democracy and Religion in Nigeria; 12. The Changing and Sustaining Trends of Femaleness in Yoruba Religion in Africa and the Diaspora; 13. Taboos, Rituals and Women’s 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 the Yoruba Belief system; 17. Sweet Melodies! Pioneer Maasai Women Gospel Musicians between Cultural Transmission, Gendered Change and Pentecostal Christianity in Kenya; Section V: The Afro-Atlantic Sacred: Culture, Heritage, Power – 18. African Immigrant Churches, Heritage Language, and Heritage Culture in North America; 19. Catching Bullets with Buttocks: the “obscene” African power of Queen Nanny of the Jamaican Maroons; 20. Mapping Africana Spiritual Nationhood: AfroAtlantic Citizenship, Civil Religion, and Sacred Spirit Oaths; 21. Let Somebody Shout Hallelujah: Soundings on African Pentecostalism and Renewal in the Diaspora; Section VI: Epilogue – 22. Professor Jacob K. Olupona: An Intellectual Biography; Index.