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A documented history of the process by which Yorùbá religion was reframed as satanic, from the missionary encounter through colonial vocabulary, Nigerian Pentecostalism and Nollywood, followed by what the tradition actually holds.
How many practitioners there actually are and why nobody knows, the real relationship with Christianity and Islam including genuine syncretism, Susanne Wenger and the Osogbo grove, the Ooni and traditional authority, and the return-to-tradition movement.
Lagos and Ibadan, the emigration wave, where traditional institutions actually stand in the Nigerian state, religion in the family, and an honest account of what has persisted and what has gone.
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 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.
An examination of the life, scholarship, and theoretical contributions of Jacob Kẹ́hìndé Olúpọ̀nà, focusing on his analyses of sacred kingship, urban religious geography, and the global dimensions of Yorùbá religion.
A comprehensive scholarly examination of modern Yoruba diasporic communities across the United Kingdom and continental Europe, detailing migration waves, institutional structures, religious adaptations, and systemic divergences from homeland practices.