Abstract
Preliminary Table of Contents: Illustrations Preface Orthography 1 Introduction: Joseph M. Murphy and Mei-Mei Sanford 2 Hidden Power: Osun the Seventeenth Odu Rowland Abiodun 3 A River of Many Turns: the Polysemy of Ochun in Afro-Cuban Tradition Isabel Castellanos 4 Orisa Osun: Yoruba Sacred Kingship and Civil Religion in Osogbo, Nigeria Jacob Olupona 5 Nesta Cidade Todo Mundo E D'Oxum, In This City Everyone is Oxum's Ieda M. R. dos Santos 6 Mae Menininha Manuel Vega 7 Yeye Cachita: Ochun in a Cuban Mirror Joseph M. Murphy 8 Oshun Brass: An Insight into Yoruba Religious Symbology C.O. Adepegba 9 Overflowing with Beauty: Ochun Altars in Lucumi Aesthetics Ysamur Flores-Pena 10 Authority and Discourse in the Orin Odun Osun Diedre Badejo 11 The Bag of Wisdom: Osun and the Origins of Ifa Divination 'Wande Abimbola 12 Ochun in the Bronx George Brandon 13 What Part of the River You're In: African American Women in Devotion to Osun Rachel Elizabeth Harding 14 Eerindinlogun: the Seeing Eyes of Sacred Shells and Stones David Ogungbile 15 Mama Oxum: Reflections of Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Umbanda Lindsay Hale 16 An Oxum Shelters Children in Sao Paulo Tania Cypriano 17 Living Water: Osun, Mami Wata, and Olokun in the Lives of Four Contemporary Nigerian Christian Women Mei-Mei Sanford 18 Orchestration of the Waters and the Breeze: the Emblems of Oshun in Atlantic Perspective Robert Farris Thompson Contributors Index
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