Contents
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction / Joel E. Tishken, Tóyìn Fálolá, and Akíntúndé Akínyemí

Part 1. Defining Sàngó in West Africa
2. The Place of Sàngó in the Yorùbá Pantheon / Akíntúndé Akínyemí
3. The Practice and Worship of Sàngó in Contemporary Yorùbáland / Arìnpé Gbekelólú Adéjùmo
4. Sàngó's Eerìndínlógún Divinatory System / George Olúsolá Ajíbádé
5. Yorùbá Thunder Deities and Sovereignty: Ará versus Sàngó / Marc Schiltz

Part 2. Representations of Sàngó in Oral and Written Popular Cultures
6. Sàngó and the Elements: Gender and Cultural Discourses / Diedre L. Bádéjo
7. Reconfiguration of Sàngó on the Screen / Dúrótoyè A. Adélékè
8. Art in the Service of Sàngó/ Stephen Folárànmí
9. The Ambivalent Representations of Sàngó in Yorùbá Literature / Akíntúndé Akínyemí

Part 3. Sàngó in the African Diaspora
10. The Cultural Aesthetics of Sàngó Africanization / Kamari Maxine Clarke
11. Wither Sàngó? An Inquiry into Sàngó's "Authenticity" and Prominence in the Caribbean / Stephen D. Glazier
12. Xangô in Afro-Brazilian Religion: "Aristocracy" and "Syncretic" Interactions / Luis Nicolau Parés
13. The Literary Manifestation of Xangô in Brazil: Esmeralda Ribeiro's
"A procura de uma borboleta preta" / Laura Edmunds
14. Drums of Sàngó: Bàtá Drum and the Symbolic Reestablishment of Oyo in Colonial Cuba, 1817-1867 / Henry B. Lovejoy

Part 4. The Voices of Sàngó Devotees
15. Sàngó beyond Male and Female / Olóyè Aìná Olomo
16. Searching for Thunder: A Conversation about Changó / Michael Atwood Mason and Ernesto Pichardo

List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index