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Guide to the six files on how Christianity, Islam, and indigenous Òrìṣà tradition are actually practiced, contested, and governed in Yorùbáland today, and the order to read them in.
How Christianity in Yorùbáland moved from mission denominations to the Aládùúrà prophetic churches to today's Pentecostal megachurches, and what Yorùbá cosmology continues to do inside all three.
How Islam took root in Yorùbáland centuries before Christianity, how Ìlọrin became its scholarly capital, and how Yorùbá Muslims built their own schools, associations, and clerical practice alongside the older òrìṣà tradition.
How Yoruba traditionalists organized themselves institutionally under the banner of Ìṣẹ̀ṣe, won civic recognition including a public holiday, and how the priesthood, urban space, and the ritual economy have adapted to city life and global demand.
How Yoruba families and towns hold Christianity, Islam, and indigenous Orisa devotion together at once, and the scholarly argument over whether "syncretism" is even the right word for what is happening.
How Pentecostal deliverance theology drives the physical destruction of shrines, how Nollywood turned that theology into a visual formula that shaped what a generation believes traditional religion looks like, and how diaspora money and status are simultaneously rebuilding the prestige Pentecostalism tore down.
How a Yoruba king's ritual duties as sacred mediator collide with his personal Christianity or Islam, and how Nigerian statute and constitutional law have tried, and largely failed, to settle the collision.