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Author:   Joseph M. Murphy ,  Mei-Mei Sanford
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.410kg
ISBN:  

9780253214591

ISBN 10:   0253214599
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   09 October 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preliminary Table of Contents: Illustrations Preface Orthography 1 Introduction: Joseph M. Murphy and Mei-Mei Sanford 2 Hidden Power: Osun the Seventeenth Odu Rowland Abiodun 3 A River of Many Turns: the Polysemy of Ochún in Afro-Cuban Tradition Isabel Castellanos 4 Orisa Osun: Yoruba Sacred Kingship and Civil Religion in Osogbo, Nigeria Jacob Olupona 5 Nesta Cidade Todo Mundo E D'Oxum, In This City Everyone is Oxum's Ieda M. R. dos Santos 6 Mãe Menininha Manuel Vega 7 Yéyé Cachita: Ochún in a Cuban Mirror Joseph M. Murphy 8 Oshun Brass: An Insight into Yoruba Religious Symbology C.O. Adepegba 9 Overflowing with Beauty: Ochún Altars in Lucumi Aesthetics Ysamur Flores-Peña 10 Authority and Discourse in the Orin Odún Osun Diedre Badejo 11 The Bag of Wisdom: Osun and the Origins of Ifa Divination 'Wande Abimbola 12 Ochún in the Bronx George Brandon 13 What Part of the River You're In: African American Women in Devotion to Òsun Rachel Elizabeth Harding 14 Eerindinlogun: the Seeing Eyes of Sacred Shells and Stones David Ogungbile 15 Mama Oxum: Reflections of Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Umbanda Lindsay Hale 16 An Oxum Shelters Children in São Paulo Tânia Cypriano 17 Living Water: Osun, Mami Wata, and Olokun in the Lives of Four Contemporary Nigerian Christian Women Mei-Mei Sanford 18 Orchestration of the Waters and the Breeze: the Emblems of Oshun in Atlantic Perspective Robert Farris Thompson Contributors Index

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Joseph Murphy is associate professor in the Theology Department at Georgetown University. He is the author of Santeria: An African Religion in North America and Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora. Mei-Mei Sanford received her doctorate in Religion and Society from Drew University. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Nigeria. She currently does research in Nigeria and in African-American and Yoruba expatriate religious communities in the United States.

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