The Body and Materiality in the Study of Indigenous Religions
“The Body and Materiality in the Study of Indigenous Religions,” The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Indigenous Religions, edited by Afe Adogame and Graham Harvey, 2025.
Catching Bullets with Buttocks: the ‘obscene’ African power of Queen Nanny of the Jamaican Maroons
“Catching Bullets with Buttocks: the ‘obscene’ African power of Queen Nanny of the Jamaican Maroons,” Topographies of African Spirituality, edited by Afe Adogame, Ebenezer Obadare, and Wale Adebanwi. 284-296. London & NY: Routledge, February 2025.
Divination in Afro- Caribbean Religions
“Divination in Afro-Caribbean Religions” in Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Religions. Ed. Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado. 305-320. NY: Oxford University Press, 2024.
Total Impact: Being Changed by Divination in West Africa
In Religion: Super Religion. Ed. Jeffrey J. Kripal. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Religion series. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan, 2017.
Signs, Doors and Games: Divination’s Dynamic Visual Canon
In Ifá Divination, Knowledge, Power, and Performance. Eds. Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland Abiodun. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016.
African Rituals
In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions, Ed. Elias Kifon Bongmba. Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishers, 2012: 112-126.
NB: In 2020 I reworked this chapter substantially for a forthcoming Second Edition of this volume. SEE THE SECOND LINK TO ACADEMIA.EDU
’When you make sacrifice, no one is a stranger’: Divination, sacrifice and identity among translocals in the West African urban diaspora
In Religion Crossing Boundaries: Transnational Dynamics in Africa and the New African Diasporic Religions. Ed. A. Adogame and J. Spickard. Religion and Social Order series, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2010.
Rambu Solo’: The Toraja Cult of the Dead and Embodied Imagination
In Varieties of Mythic Experience: Essays on Religion, Psyche and Culture, eds. Dennis Patrick Slattery and Glen Slater, 101-133. Einsiedeln: Daimon Verlag. 2008.
Please note: Due to the editors’ error, the published chapter omits key passages, the notes, and the bibliography.
To read the complete version of this article on the TORAJA OF SULAWESI INDONESIA please see link below to academia.edu
