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Title:Èsù: Yoruba god, power, and the imaginative frontiers
Editor:Falola, ToyinISNI
Year:2013
Pages:392
Language:English
Series:African world series
City of publisher:Durham, NC
Publisher:Carolina Academic Press
ISBN:1611632226; 9781611632224
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:Yoruba
African religions
diasporas
Abstract:Èsù, also known in different locations as Eleda, Exu, Cxu Eleggua, Cxu Elegbara, Legba, Elegba, or Odara, is the 'divine messenger', central to the understanding of Yoruba religion and worldview, as well as to the various manifestations and related orisa traditions in the African diaspora - such as Candomblé, Vodou and Santeria/Lukumi. Èsù is now part of what some label as the Black Atlantic religion, part of the attempt to recover African religions in other lands, as well as part of the use of religion for survival. As this book points out, in Èsù's ability to migrate to other lands, he becomes part of transatlantic history, and even more so a part of the tension between relocation and history, and between the violence that led to the forced migrations of people and the long healing process of reconciliation with living in strange lands that later became new homelands. The first of the 19 chapters of the book serves as an introduction, the others are divided under the headings 'Religious and spiritual forces' (2-10) and 'Modernity, representations and imaginations' (11-19). Titles of the chapters: 1. Èsù: the god without boundaries (Toyin Falola); 2. The place of Èsù in the Yorùbá pantheon (Allison Sellers and Joel E. Tishken); 3. Èsù?l?'gbara in Yorùbá spiritual and religious discourse (Olúbáyò Oládimeji Adékólá); 4. Èsù: the phenomenon of existence (Segun Ogungbemi); 5. Èsù, determinism, and evil in Yoruba religion (Danoye Oguntola-Laguda); 6. Èsù and the problem of evil (Benson Igboin); 7. Ire and Ibi: Èsù and the philosophical problem of evil (Fayemi Ademola Kazeem); 8. Èsù and liminality in Yoruba thought system: a leadership perspective (John Ayotunde (Tunde) Isola Bewaji); 9. Convergence and spirituality: Èsù in Lagos (Dele Jegede); 10. Èsù: personal testimonies by a priest and religious leader (H.E. Iyalawo Oloye Aina Olomo); 11. Èsù at the transatlantic crossroads: locations of crossing over (Solimar Otero); 12. Beguiling Eshu: motion and commotion in London (Martin Tsang); 13. Èxù Elegbara and Prometheusis (Moyo Okediji); 14. As a playground of Èsù (Yomi Ola); 15. (W)rapped in illusion: the hip-hop emcee as trickster (Halifu Osumare); 16. Ritual satire: Èsù-Elegbara and the Yoruba dramatic imagination (Femi Euba); 17. Countering misrepresentation of Èsù in fiction: a reading of the novels of D. O. Fagunwa (Lérè Adéyemi); 18. Èsù má?e mí,?m??lòmíì ni o?e: a religious principle for ethical living (Michael O. Af?láyan); 19. The penis, the pen, and the praise: Èsù, the seminal force of African American life, literature, and lyrics (Teresa N. Washington).
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