Jacob K. Olupona

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Jacob K. Olupona is affiliated with the following schools: Boston University, University of Nigeria, University of California, Davis, Harvard University

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Jacob K. Olupona

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#1926

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#3901

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Bachelors Religion University of Nigeria

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According to Wikipedia, Jacob Kehinde Olupona is a Nigerian-born American professor, writer, and scholar of religious studies. He is a professor of African Religious Traditions at the Harvard Divinity School with a joint appointment as Professor of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. Olupona was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2023.

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Jacob K. Olupona's Published Works

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African traditional religions in contemporary society (1991) (73)
African Spirituality: Forms, Meanings and Expressions (2000) (73)
African Religions: A Very Short Introduction (2014) (44)
Beyond Primitivism: Indigenous Religious Traditions and Modernity (2003) (38)
Book Review: Religious Plurality in Africa: Essays in Honour of John S. Mbiti (1993) (33)
The Study of Yoruba Religious Tradition in Historical Perspective (1993) (26)
Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere (2003) (24)
The Wiley-Blackwell companion to African religions (2012) (24)
Kingship, religion, and rituals in a Nigerian community: A phenomenological study of Ondo Yoruba festivals (1991) (23)
Some Notes on Animal Symbolism in African Religion and Culture (1993) (20)
City of 201 Gods: Ilé-Ifè in Time, Space, and the Imagination (2011) (19)
Òrìşà devotion as world religion : the globalization of Yorùbá religious culture (2008) (19)
African Immigrant Religions in America (2007) (18)
Religions and social progress: critical assessments and creative partnerships (2018) (14)
The study of religions in Africa : past, present and prospects (1998) (14)
Religion and Poverty: Pan-African Perspectives (2009) (10)
Religious Plurality in Africa (1995) (10)
Religion and Society in Nigera: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (1992) (10)
Religion and Poverty (2015) (9)
Religion and Ecology in African Culture and Society (2006) (8)
Metaphoric Associations and the Conception of Death: Analysis of a Yoruba World View (1987) (7)
Ifá Divination, Knowledge, Power, and Performance (2016) (6)
WOMEN'S RITUALS, KINGSHIP AND POWER AMONG THE ONDO‐YORUBA OF NIGERIA a (1997) (4)
The Slaves of Allah: Ifa Divination Portrayal of Islamic Tradition – An Intertextual Encounter (2013) (3)
Rituals in African traditional religion: a phenomenological perspective (1990) (3)
Osun across the Waters: A Yoruba goddess in Africa and the Americas, edited by Joseph M. Murphy and Mei-Mei Sanford. Bloomington, IL: Indiana University Press, 2001. x + 273 pp. US$29.95 paperback. ISBN 0-253-21459-9 (paperback). (2005) (3)
Religion in Gender-Based Violence, Immigration, and Human Rights (2019) (3)
Comments on the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (2009) (3)
Introduction to the Discussion of A Primal Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion (2011) (3)
Report of the Conference “Beyond Primitivism: Indigenous Religious Traditions and Modernity,” March 28-31, 1996, University of California, Davis (1997) (2)
Ẹkuń Ìyàwó: Bridal Tears in Marriage Rites of Passage among the Ǫ̀yǫ́-Yorùbá of Nigeria (2005) (2)
Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem. By Jackson John L., Jr. (2016) (2)
Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas (2021) (2)
Introduction: Issues and perspectives on religious plurality in Africa (1993) (2)
Thinking Globally about African Religion (2006) (2)
Religion, Law and Order: State Regulation of Religious Affairs (1990) (1)
Kinship, Religion and Rituals in a Nigerian Community: A Phenomenological Study of Ondo Yoruba Festivals. (1992) (1)
The Changing Face of African Christianity: Reverse Mission in Transnational and Global Perspectives (2011) (1)
A phenomenological anthropological study of the religion of the Ondo-Yoruba of Nigeria: a research proposal on a neglected aspect of Yoruba studies (1982) (1)
Feminine Ritual Power and African Politics (2019) (1)
2. Gods, ancestors, and spirit beings (2014) (0)
Some notes on the religion of the ondo-people in nigeria: a phenomenological anthropological study (1985) (0)
A biographical sketch (1993) (0)
Religious Pluralism in Africa:: Insights from Ifa Divination Poetry (2010) (0)
Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa (1997) (0)
Conclusion (2019) (0)
BOOK REVIEW: Abosede Emanuel.ODUN IFA: IFA FESTIVAL. Lagos: West African Book Publishers Limited, 2000. and Ed. John Pemberton III.INSIGHT AND ARTISTRY IN AFRICAN DIVINATION. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution P, 2000. (2003) (0)
A Response to Comments (2014) (0)
Report On the Conference "the Study of Religions in Africa", the University of Zimbabwe, Harare, September 15-19, 1992 (1993) (0)
Immigration and gender-based violence in the West (2019) (0)
Foreword (2021) (0)
Rethinking African Religious Traditions in Local and Global Context (2020) (0)
Odun Ifa: Ifa Festival, and: Insight and Artistry in African Divination (review) (2003) (0)
The Changing Face of African Christianity (2012) (0)
CONCEPTION OF DEATH: ANALYSIS OF A (2016) (0)
3. Sacred authority: divine kingship, priests, and diviners (2014) (0)
1. Worldview, cosmology, and myths of origin (2014) (0)
AWO – The Nature and Essence of Secrecy in Yorùbá Religious Traditions: Conversations with IFÁ Diviners 1 (2022) (0)
Index of Names and Authors (1993) (0)
Foreword (2021) (0)
6. Christianity and Islam in Africa (2014) (0)
4. Ceremonies, festivals, and rituals (2014) (0)
Book Review:Religious and Political Ethics in Africa: A Moral Inquiry Harvey Sindima (2002) (0)
Foreword (2020) (0)
New Trends and Developments in African Religions (2002) (0)
Some Notes on African Religious Traditions from the Fourteenth Century Onward (2000) (0)
UNDERSTANDING POVERTY AND ITS ALLEVIATION IN AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN APPROACH (2020) (0)
5. Sacred arts and ritual performances (2014) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
7. African religions today (2014) (0)
Ethics That Matters: African, Caribbean, and African American Sources (2010) (0)
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations (2015) (0)

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