Sàngó in Africa and the African diasporaedited
By: by Joel E. Tishken, Toyin Falola, and Akínyẹmí Akíntúndé.
Contributors: Falola, Toyin.; Akínyẹmí, Akíntúndé.
Series: African expressive cultures
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253353368; 9780253220943
Subjects: Shango (Yoruba deity); Shango (Cult); Yoruba (African people) -- Religion; Afro-Brazilian cults; African diaspora
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Joel E. Tishken, Tóyìn Fálolá, and Akíntúndé Akínyemí; title: Defining Sàngó in West Africa; title: The place of Sàngó in the Yorùbá Pantheon / Akíntúndé Akínyemí; title: The practice and worship of Sàngó in contemporary Yorùbáland / Agrarìnpégbe , Acuke, Gralólú Adéjùmo; title: Sàngó's Acurìndínlógún divinatory system / George Olúsolá Ajíbádé; title: Yorùbá thunder deities and sovereignty : Agrará versus Aàngó / Marc Schiltz; title: Representations of Sàngó in oral and written popular cultures; title: Sàngó and the elements : gender and cultural discourses / Diedre L. Bádéjo; title: Reconfiguration of Sàngó on the screen / Dúrótoyè A. Adélékè; title: Art in the service of Sàngó / Stephen Folárànmí; title: The ambivalent representations of Sàngó in Yorùbá literature / Akíntúndé Akínyemí; title: Sàngó in the African diaspora; title: The cultural aesthetics of Sàngó africanization / Kamari Maxine Clarke; title: Wither Sàngó an inquiry into Sàngó's "authenticity" and prominence in the Caribbean / Stephen D. Glazier; title: Xangô in Afro-Brazilian religion : "aristocracy" and "syncretic" interactions / Luis Nicolau Parés; title: The literary manifestation of Xangô in Brazil : Esmeralda Ribeiro's "A procura de uma borboleta preta" / Laura Edmunds; title: Drums of Sàngó : Bàtá drum and the symbolic reestablishment of Ograyoacu in colonial Cuba, 1817-1867 / Henry B. Lovejoy; title: The voices of Sàngó devotees; title: Sàngó beyond male and female / Olóyè Agraìná Olomo; title: Searching for thunder : a conversation about Changó / Michael Atwood Mason and Ernesto Pichardo.