dc.contributor.author |
Ofuasia, Emmanuel
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dc.date.accessioned |
2024-07-24T06:09:07Z |
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dc.date.available |
2024-07-24T06:09:07Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2023-11 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Recent scholarship on Yorùbá theology that has tried to model it after the Abrahamic monotheisms as the distinction between Ọ̀run rere (Heaven) and Ọ̀run àpáàdì (Hell) is now replete but has not, before now, commanded critical scrutiny. Specifically, the works of Ogunnade, Odebolu, Shittu and Odeyemi have argued for a Yorùbá notion of Hell even when there is no evidence for such in the theology and traditional practices of the peoples. The aim of this research, then, is to correct this unreliable and uncharitable misrepresentation of Yorùbá theology. To achieve this aim, this research employs the Kawaida methodology, which thrives on reason and tradition. In reinforcing its stance, this study relies on the sacred ritual archive of the Yorùbá, which is the Ifá corpus, to establish the absence of any form of Ọ̀run àpáàdì, as a place of eternal anguish and suffering for evil doers among the Yorùbá. |
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dc.description.department |
Philosophy |
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dc.description.sdg |
None |
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dc.description.uri |
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Ofuasia, Emmanuel. 2023.
Is There Any Evidence for Hell in the
Ifá Literary Corpus? Religions 14:
1416. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14111416. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
2077-1444 (online) |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.3390/rel14111416 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/97190 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
MDPI |
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dc.rights |
© 2023 by the author.
Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
This article is an open access article
distributed under the terms and
conditions of the Creative Commons
Attribution (CC BY) license (https://
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/
4.0/). |
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dc.subject |
Abrahamic monotheisms |
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dc.subject |
Ifá literary corpus |
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dc.subject |
Kawaida |
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dc.subject |
Yorùbá theology |
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dc.subject |
Ọ̀run àpáàdì (Hell) |
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dc.title |
Is there any evidence for hell in the Ifá Iiterary corpus? |
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dc.type |
Article |
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