S}}ng}} in Africa and the African Diaspora [Paperback]

S?ng? in Africa and the African Diaspora is a multidisciplinary, transregional exploration of S?ng? religious traditions in West Africa and beyond. S?ng?the Yoruba god of thunder and lightningis a powerful, fearful deity who controls the forces of nature, but has not received the same attention as other Yoruba orishas. This volume considers the spread of polytheistic religious traditions from West Africa, the mythic S?ng?, the historical S?ng?, and syncretic traditions of S?ng? worship. Readers with an interest in the Yoruba and their religious cultures will find a diverse, complex, and comprehensive portrait of S?ng? worship in Africa and the African world.

Contents
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction / Joel E. Tishken, T?y?n F?lol?, and Ak?nt?nd? Ak?nyem?

Part 1. Defining S?ng? in West Africa
2. The Place of S?ng? in the Yor?b? Pantheon / Ak?nt?nd? Ak?nyem?
3. The Practice and Worship of S?ng? in Contemporary Yor?b?land / Ar?np? Gbekel?l? Ad?j?mo
4. S?ng?'s Eer?nd?nl?g?n Divinatory System / George Ol?sol? Aj?b?d?
5. Yor?b? Thunder Deities and Sovereignty: Ar? versus S?ng? / Marc Schiltz

Part 2. Representations of S?ng? in Oral and Written Popular Cultures
6. S?ng? and the Elements: Gender and Cultural Discourses / Diedre L. B?d?jo
7. Reconfiguration of S?ng? on the Screen / D?r?toy? A. Ad?l?k?
8. Art in the Service of S?ng?/ Stephen Fol?r?nm?
9. The Ambivalent Representations of S?ng? in Yor?b? Literature / Ak?nt?nd? Ak?nyem?

Part 3. S?ng? in the African Diaspora
10. The Cultural Aesthetics of S?ng? Africanization / Kamari Maxine Clarke
11. Wither S?ng?? An Inquiry into S?ng?'s Authenticity and Prominence in the Caribbean / Stephen D. Glazier
12. Xang? in Afro-Brazilian Religion: Aristocracy and Syncretic Interactions / Luis Nicolau Par?s
13. The Literary Manifestation of Xang? in Brazil: lC$