Topographies of African Spirituality

List of figures; List of contributors; Section I Overture - 1. Introduction; 2. Intellectual Nerve and Spiritual Muscle: Homage to Alfredo Lopez Austin and Jacob Olupona; Section II: Beyond Religion? Theorizing and Grounding Everyday Spiritualities - 3. Theorizing Religion for a Post-colonial Era; 4. The Concept of Sacred Space Phenomenology of Religion Revisited; 5. Beyond Religion: Guru Maharaj Ji's Divine Love Mission; 6. Digitizing Divination! Deconstructing Indigeneity and New Ways of Knowing in African Spiritual Economies; 7. A Kenyan Environmental Prophet: Wangari Maathai's Contribution to the Ecology of Religion; 8. Making Connections: Christianity and Synrectic Practices in Post-colonial Nigeria; Section III: Gender, Democracy, and the Pragmatics of Development - 9. Disruption and Promise: The Religious Powers of Development; 10. The Status and Protection of Non-human Objects in Just War Tradition: A Comparative Analysis from an African perspective; 11. "Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense": The Continuing Colonial Dialectic of Democracy and Religion in Nigeria; 12. The Changing and Sustaining Trends of Women's Roles in Yoruba 'Religions' in Africa and the African Diaspora; 13. Taboos, Rituals, and Women's Spirituality in an African Society; Section IV: Ifa, Islam, and Pentecostalism: Collocating Tradition and Modernity - 14. Ifa and Traditional Yoruba Interpretations of Christianity; 15. Pentecostalism and Modern Nigerian Society; 16. Confronting Religious Pluralism: Islamic Reformers and Yoruba Belief; Section V: The Afro-Atlantic Sacred: Culture, Heritage, and Power - 17. African Immigrant Churches, Heritage Language, and Heritage Culture in North America; 18. Catching Bullets with Buttocks: The "Obscene" African Power of Queen Nanny of the Jamaican Maroons; 19. Mapping Africana Spiritual Nationhood: AfroAtlantic Citizenship, Civil Religion, and Sacred Spirit Oaths; 20. Let Somebody Soulfully Shout Hallelujah: Soundings on African Pentecostalism and Renewal in the Diaspora; Section VI: Epilogue - 21. Intellectual Biography for Professor Jacob Kehinde Olupona; Index.