Èsù : Yoruba god, power, and the imaginative frontiers /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Falola, Toyin
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, [2013]
Series:	Carolina Academic Press African world series.
Subjects:	Esu (Afro-Caribbean deity) Yoruba (African people) > Religion.

Table of 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.