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Indigeneity in African Religions: Oza Worldviews, Cosmologies and Religious Cultures

Indigeneity in African Religions: Oza Worldviews, Cosmologies and Religious Cultures

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African HistoryComparative ReligionGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1350008265
ISBN13: 9781350008267
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Dec 16 2021
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and archival data, Indigeneity in African Religions explores the historical origins, worldviews, cosmologies, ritual symbolism and praxis of the indigenous Oza people in South West Nigeria. The author's locationality and positionality plugs the book within decolonizing knowledges and indigeneity discourses, thus unpacking the complexity of indigeneity and contributing to its conceptual understanding within socioreligious change in contemporary Africa.

The future of Oza indigeneity in the face of modernity is illuminated against the backlash of encounters, contestations with multiple hegemonies, transmissions of Christianity and Islam and indigenous (re)appropriations. Thus, any theorizations of such encounters must be cognizant of instantiations of indigeneity politics and identity, culture, tradition and power dynamics. Through decolonizing burdens of history, memory and method, Afe Adogame demonstrates a framework of understanding Oza indigenous religious, sociocultural and political imaginaries.

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