Sango: A new book

[Toyin Falola]

Indiana University Press has released a new book on Sango.

There are not many deities in the world that are truly international in the scope of their worship. The Yoruba òrìsà Sàngó is one such deity. Worshippers of Sàngó may be found everywhere the Yoruba people have had a cultural or demographic influence, and even beyond. Such influence encompasses several nations of West Africa and a good many of the nations of the Americas. Whether by trade associations, imperial expansion, the Atlantic slave trade, cultural exportation, or immigration, the Yoruba people have left an undeniable and permanent imprint on many parts of the world. This imprint includes Yoruba religion and its pantheon of deities.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
 

Defining Sango in West Africa

2. The Place of Sango in the Yoruba Pantheon
       Akintunde Akinyemi

3. Religious Politics and the Myth of Sango
   Akinwunmi Isola

4. The Ambivalent Representation of Sango in Yoruba Literature
   Akintunde Akinyemi

5. Yoruba Thunder Deities and Sovereignty: Ara versus Sango
   Marc Schiltz

Thematic Representations of Sango

6. Sango and the Elements: Gender and Cultural Discourses
  Dierdre Badejo

7. Reconfiguration of Sango on the Screen
Durotoye A. Adeleke

8. Art in the Service of Sango
       Stephen Folaranmi

9. Insight into the Future via the Past and the Present: An Examination of Sàngó Eérìndínlógún Divinatory System among the Yoruba
      George Olusola Ajibade

Sango in the African Diaspora

10. The Political Economy of Sango Africanization: Aesthetics as Cultural Politics
   Kamari Maxine Clarke

11. Wither Sango?: An Inquiry into Sango's "Authenticity" and Prominence in the Caribbean
   Stephen D. Glazier

12. Shango in Afro-Brazilian Religion: "Aristocracy" and "Syncretic" Interactions
     Luis Nicolau Parés

13. Sango: Beyond Male and Female
     Aina Olomo Oloriya

14. Searching for Thunder: A Conversation about Shangó
Ernesto Pichardo and Michael Atwood Mason

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Toyin Falola
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The University of Texas at Austin
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