The Orisha religion in a transnational perspective

This International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) keynote lecture offers a glimpse on 20 years of research on the transnationalization of Orisha religion in the ‘Black Atlantic’. By expanding Gilroy’s analyses to include the South Atlantic, and in particular, Brazil and Nigeria, I focu...

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Published inSocial compass Vol. 69; no. 2; pp. 135 - 152
Main Author Capone, Stefania
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.06.2022
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Diaspora
Globalization
Humanities and Social Sciences
Migration
Religion
Religions
Religious behavior
Social Anthropology and ethnology
Sociology of religion
Transnationalism
Yoruba people
Nigeria
(im)mobilités religieuses
religions afro-atlantiques
diaspora
Orisha religion
transnationalization
religion des Orisha
Afro-Atlantic religions
transnationalisation
religious (im)mobilities
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Summary:This International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) keynote lecture offers a glimpse on 20 years of research on the transnationalization of Orisha religion in the ‘Black Atlantic’. By expanding Gilroy’s analyses to include the South Atlantic, and in particular, Brazil and Nigeria, I focus on the diffusion of these religious practices in a tricontinental space of circulation. The transnational ‘Yoruba’ community is constituted on both sides of the Atlantic, thanks to the continuous exchanges between these two territories. If the Yoruba identity in Nigeria needs its American ‘mirror’ to exist, the so-called ‘globalization of the Orisha religion’ is the product of this incessant negotiation between different versions of the Yoruba tradition in Africa as well as in the diaspora. This also includes the persisting role of nation in transnational processes and the issue of religious (im)mobilities, showing that religious transnationalization is not necessarily linked to migration.
ISSN:0037-7686
1461-7404
DOI:10.1177/00377686221083515