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How Yorùbá people actually live with three religious traditions at once, the real tensions, what scholars document about coexistence, and the full range of positions people hold.

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.

The history and structure of Yoruba-derived religion in Cuba, from the cabildos de nación to the modern casa-templo, including initiation, Ifá, diloggún, the saint correspondences and the traditions it is wrongly conflated with.

A side-by-side reference of orisa names, attributes and saint correspondences across four traditions, with a sustained warning that these are not clean equivalences and a commentary on exactly where the mapping breaks.

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 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.

A scholarly analysis of Umbanda, examining its urban Brazilian origins, doctrinal structure, mediumistic spirit phalanxes, sociological debates on whitening, and divergence from West African Yoruba practice.

A comprehensive analysis of Trinidad Orisha, tracing its development from post-emancipation Yoruba migrations through multi-tradition syncretism, ritual architecture, and modern institutionalization.

An analysis of the historical formation, ritual structure, demographic landscape, and theoretical debates surrounding Lucumí religion and its divergence from West African Yorùbá practice in contemporary Cuba.