Ayodeji Ogunnaike
Biographic Data
| ID | 1235062 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayodeji Ogunnaike |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayodeji |
| FAMILY NAME | Ogunnaike |
| SIGNATURE | OGUNNAIKE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University, CA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2205-9359 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Indigenous Hermeneutics as Critique of Colonial and Decolonial Thought
Although “postcolonial” and “decolonial” thought and methodologies enjoy wide popularity, this thought reacts directly against the oppressive systems from which they hope to become decolonized, ironically integrating those systems into their frameworks. This paper approaches Indigenous hermeneutics and its growing influence on Africana religious studies as an alternative model that affords Western intellectual frameworks a place without centering…
Beyond Retentions
Discourse around retaining ancestral traditions or African “purity” has long dominated scholarly and practitioner spheres in Afro-diasporic religions, with Yoruba mythology playing an important role in establishing and framing much of the valuable work this discourse has accomplished. Simultaneously, innovation, creativity, and adaptability have also been critical parts of African-derived traditions in the homeland and diaspora, and this article …
Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't
The Jamaican government reconsidering the Obeah Act in the summer of 2019 highlighted the legacy of prejudice and criminalization of Africana religious systems and practices left by colonization across ethno-linguistic borders and the broader Black Atlantic. It also highlighted how some traditions such as Béninois Vodun, Candomblé, Santería, and oriṣa worship in parts of Nigeria have successfully managed to combat state policing and prejudice to …
The Transcontinental Genealogy of the Afro-Brazilian Mosque
This article examines the genealogy of Afro-Brazilian mosques, answering some of the most immediate and puzzling questions that they force all who see them to ask. The answers to these questions demonstrate the fluidity of categories such as European, African, Islamic, and Christian, and how West African Muslims effectively drew on an architectural vocabulary with connections to three continents to forge an emergent cosmopolitan identity
Bilad al-Brazil
While it is well established now that the middle passage did not entirely separate Africans who were forcibly brought to the Americas from their home cultures and traditions, these connections are often studied and understood in the form of survivals or ancestral memory. This paper argues that in major urban centers in Brazil until around the time of World War I, West Africans not only managed to recreate Islamic communities and intellectual trad…
What's Really Behind the Mask
Afro-Catholic syncretism has predominantly been analyzed through the metaphor of a mask in which African slaves ingeniously employed the traditions of Catholic saints to disguise their worship of African deities, ensuring the preservation of their traditions. The study of Brazilian Candomblé—primarily the work of Roger Bastide—has arguably been the most influential in developing this theory. However, this model assumes a Eurocentric framework of …
What's Really Behind the Mask
Afro-Catholic syncretism has predominantly been analyzed through the metaphor of a mask in which African slaves ingeniously employed the traditions of Catholic saints to disguise their worship of African deities, ensuring the preservation of their traditions. The study of Brazilian Candomblé—primarily the work of Roger Bastide—has arguably been the most influential in developing this theory. However, this model assumes a Eurocentric framework of …
The Transcontinental Genealogy of the Afro-Brazilian Mosque
This article examines the genealogy of Afro-Brazilian mosques, answering some of the most immediate and puzzling questions that they force all who see them to ask. The answers to these questions demonstrate the fluidity of categories such as European, African, Islamic, and Christian, and how West African Muslims effectively drew on an architectural vocabulary with connections to three continents to forge an emergent cosmopolitan identity
What's Really Behind the Mask
Afro-Catholic syncretism has predominantly been analyzed through the metaphor of a mask in which African slaves ingeniously employed the traditions of Catholic saints to disguise their worship of African deities, ensuring the preservation of their traditions. The study of Brazilian Candomblé—primarily the work of Roger Bastide—has arguably been the most influential in developing this theory. However, this model assumes a Eurocentric framework of …
Bilad al-Brazil
While it is well established now that the middle passage did not entirely separate Africans who were forcibly brought to the Americas from their home cultures and traditions, these connections are often studied and understood in the form of survivals or ancestral memory. This paper argues that in major urban centers in Brazil until around the time of World War I, West Africans not only managed to recreate Islamic communities and intellectual trad…
Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't
The Jamaican government reconsidering the Obeah Act in the summer of 2019 highlighted the legacy of prejudice and criminalization of Africana religious systems and practices left by colonization across ethno-linguistic borders and the broader Black Atlantic. It also highlighted how some traditions such as Béninois Vodun, Candomblé, Santería, and oriṣa worship in parts of Nigeria have successfully managed to combat state policing and prejudice to …
The Transcontinental Genealogy of the Afro-Brazilian Mosque
This article examines the genealogy of Afro-Brazilian mosques, answering some of the most immediate and puzzling questions that they force all who see them to ask. The answers to these questions demonstrate the fluidity of categories such as European, African, Islamic, and Christian, and how West African Muslims effectively drew on an architectural vocabulary with connections to three continents to forge an emergent cosmopolitan identity
Indigenous Hermeneutics as Critique of Colonial and Decolonial Thought
Although “postcolonial” and “decolonial” thought and methodologies enjoy wide popularity, this thought reacts directly against the oppressive systems from which they hope to become decolonized, ironically integrating those systems into their frameworks. This paper approaches Indigenous hermeneutics and its growing influence on Africana religious studies as an alternative model that affords Western intellectual frameworks a place without centering…
Beyond Retentions
Discourse around retaining ancestral traditions or African “purity” has long dominated scholarly and practitioner spheres in Afro-diasporic religions, with Yoruba mythology playing an important role in establishing and framing much of the valuable work this discourse has accomplished. Simultaneously, innovation, creativity, and adaptability have also been critical parts of African-derived traditions in the homeland and diaspora, and this article …
Sociology (4 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Indigenous (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)