Topographies of African Spirituality: Essays in Honor of Jacob K. Olupona [Hardcover]

This book explores African spirituality inside and outside of religion, investigating African traditions and perceptions in the study of spirituality across Africa and the African diaspora. It provides an interdisciplinary reflection on key issues in the field and sheds light on everyday experiences.

List of figures; List of contributors; Section I Overture  1. Introduction; 2. Intellectual Nerve and Spiritual Muscle: Homage to Alfredo L?pez 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 Jis Divine Love Mission; 6. Digitizing Divination! Deconstructing Indigeneity and New Ways of Knowing in African Spiritual Economies; 7. A Kenyan Environmental Prophet: Wangari Maathais 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 Dont 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 Womens 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, Heritagl3'