Is there any evidence for hell in the Ifá Iiterary corpus?

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dc.contributor.author Ofuasia, Emmanuel
dc.date.accessioned 2024-07-24T06:09:07Z
dc.date.available 2024-07-24T06:09:07Z
dc.date.issued 2023-11
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. en_US
dc.description.department Philosophy en_US
dc.description.sdg None en_US
dc.description.uri https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions en_US
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. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2077-1444 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.3390/rel14111416
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/97190
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher MDPI en_US
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/). en_US
dc.subject Abrahamic monotheisms en_US
dc.subject Ifá literary corpus en_US
dc.subject Kawaida en_US
dc.subject Yorùbá theology en_US
dc.subject Ọ̀run àpáàdì (Hell) en_US
dc.title Is there any evidence for hell in the Ifá Iiterary corpus? en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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