Ayodeji Ogunnaike is Assistant Professor of African Religions and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in the Globalization of African Religion and Yoruba Mythology at McGill University.

“Every once in a while, a text like Forms of Worship emerges and offers new perspectives on some of the great historic faith traditions of the world. Ogunnaike expands the critical dialogue on the Orisa tradition with depth and nuance that students, devotees, and scholars will appreciate. An astute excavation and interpretation of Yorùbá presence and practice on both sides of the Atlantic.”—Elias K. Bongmba, Harry & Hazel Chavanne Chair in Christian Theology, Rice University"Forms of Worship illustrates the evolution of Africa's most celebrated indigenous religious tradition into a modern religion in the Western sense, in the process retheorizing what "religion" can be. Ayodeji Ogunnaike models how spirituality should be studied, bringing together ethnographic and archival examples from Ede, Nigeria, and Salvador, Brazil to center ancestrality, living, doing, ethics, and practices rather than doctrine and creed. A major contribution." —Jacob K. Olupona, Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 11. From Myth to Modernity: A Religious History of Ẹdẹ 172. Forms of Worship, Not Religion 473. How Worship Became Religion: Diaspora, Homeland, and the Lagosian Renaissance 814. How Religion Becomes International 1215. Masking Tradition(s): Indigenous Perspectives on Syncretism 1376. How Religion Is Changing the Religious 1697. The Timi: Sacred Kinship, Managing Modernity, and New Religious Pluralism 215Conclusion 259Notes 283Bibliography 325Index 341