Research Catalog

Title

Èṣù : Yoruba god, power, and the imaginative frontiers / edited by Toyin Falola.

Publication

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

Falola, Toyin

Description

xxiii, 392 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.

Series Statement

African world series

Uniform Title

Carolina Academic Press African world series.

Subject

• Eshu
• Esu (Afro-Caribbean deity)
• Yoruba (African people) > Religion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Èxù: the god without boundaries / Toyin Falola -- Religious and spiritual forces -- 2. The place of Èxù in the Yoruba pantheon / Allison Sellers and Joel E. Tishken -- 3. Èxù in Yoruba religious beliefs / Olubayo Oladimeji Adekola -- 4. Èxù: the phenomenon of existence / Segun Ogungbemi -- 5. Èxù and the paradox of determinism / Danoye Oguntola-Laguda -- 6. Esu and the problem of evil / Benson Igboin -- 7. Ire and Ibi: Esu and the philosophical problem of evil / Ademola Kazeem Fayemi -- 8. Èxù and liminality in yoruba thought system: a leadership perspective / John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji -- 9. Convergence and spirituality: Èxù in Lagos / dele jegede -- 10. Èxù: personal testimonies by a priest and religious leader / Her Excellency Iyalawo Aina Olomo -- Modernity, representations and imaginations -- 11. Èxù at the trans-Atlantic crossroads: locations of crossing over / Solimar Otero -- 12. Dialectics of Macumba: the crossroads of Latin American discourse / Rodrigo Lopes de Barros -- 13. Beguiling Eshu: motion and commotion in London / Martin Tsang -- 14. Èxù Elegbara and Prometheusis / Moyo Okediji -- 15. A playground of Èxù / Yomi Ola -- 16. (W)rapped in illusion: the hip-hop emcee as trickster / Halifu Osumare -- 17. Ritual satire: Èxù-Elegbara and the Yoruba dramatic imagination / Femi Euba -- 18. Countering misrepresentation of Esu in fiction: a reading of the novels of D. O. Fagunwa / Lere Adeyemi -- 19. Esu ma se mi, omo elomii ni o se: a religious principle for ethical living / Michael O. Afolayan -- 20. The penis, the pen, and the praise: Èxù: the seminal force of African American life, literature, and lyrics / Teresa N. Washington.

ISBN

• 9781611632224 (alk. paper)
• 1611632226 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2013007020
• 40022647443

OCLC

• 828724078
• SCSB-11847622

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library