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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 current global spread of orisa religion, why practitioner numbers are unreliable, what the World Orisa Congress did and did not achieve, the authority disputes between Nigerian, Cuban and American practitioners, and the commercialization and online-initiation problem.