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Guide to the fifteen files in the deep diaspora section, covering transatlantic Yorùbá ritual traditions, regional adaptations, continental neighbours, and multidirectional return circulation.
A comprehensive analysis of Cuban Regla de Ocha (Lucumí), covering its institutional evolution from West African models, ritual structures, divination systems, demographics, and major scholarly debates.
An analysis of Candomblé Ketu in Bahia, covering its nineteenth-century origins, institutional kinship structures, ritual practices, divergence from West African prototypes, and historiographical debates.
A historical and structural analysis of Candomblé Jeje, the Afro-Brazilian religious tradition rooted in Gbe-speaking West African populations.
The history, ritual structure, cosmology, and scholarship of the Central African Bantu tradition within Afro-Brazilian Candomblé, and its divergence from Yoruba practice.
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 intentional Black nationalist community in South Carolina that restructured Yoruba religious practice into a sovereign territorial kingdom.
An examination of the Yoruba-derived Nago rite in Haitian Vodou, detailing the consolidation of the Ogou pantheon, liturgical structures, scholarly debates, and divergences from West African practice.
The history, mathematical structure, liturgical divergence, and contemporary institutionalization of the Fon, Gun, and Mina divination system known as Fá in the Republic of Benin.
A comprehensive analysis of Afa, the sacred geomantic divination system practiced by the Ewe and related Gbe-speaking peoples of southern Togo, detailing its history, operational structure, sociological realities, and points of divergence from classical Yoruba Ifa.
An examination of the historical formation, institutional structures, ritual practices, demographic realities, and scholarly debates defining Yoruba cultural and religious life in contemporary Brazil.
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.
A scholarly analysis of the historical development, religious revitalization, demographic footprint, and institutional divergences of the Yoruba presence in the United States.
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.
A scholarly analysis of return circulation across the Black Atlantic and migration geography, examining historical returnee flows, theoretical models, ritual divergences, and historiographical debates.