Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
15. Why Are Indigenous African and Afro-Diasporic Religions Relevant to You?
Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
Ayodeji Ogunnaike [+]
Bowdoin College
Ayodeji Ogunnaike is an assistant professor of Africana Studies at Bowdoin College whose research is centered on the Yoruba tradition of Ifa divination and orature but also includes Islam and Christianity in African and Afro-diasporic religions, particularly Brazilian Candomblé.
Oludamini Ogunnaike [+]
University of Virginia
Oludamini Ogunnaike is an Assistant Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy at the University of Virginia. He holds a PhD in African and African American Studies and Religious Studies from Harvard University. His published works include Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions (2020) and Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection: A Study of West African Madīḥ Poetry and Its Precedents (2020).
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African religious traditions are so practically oriented, they primarily seek to address universal human and cosmological conditions and issues and thus have important wisdom and insight to share with all people across time and space.