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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 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 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 contemporary Yorùbá religious and medical practice, covering demographic realities, legal recognition, regulatory frameworks in Nigeria, and the commercial and epistemological shifts across the digital diaspora.