title: Understanding the Concept of Ẹbọ (Sacrifice) within the Context of African Religion: Insights from the Faculties of Ifá among the Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria
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metadata.value: Okewande, Oluwọle Tẹwọgboye
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-11-29T19:35:27Z
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metadata.value: 2024-11-29T19:35:27Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024-06
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metadata.value: Okewande O. T. Understanding the Concept of Ẹbọ (Sacrifice) within the Context of African Religion: Insights from the Faculties of Ifá among the Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2024, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 485–500. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2024.213
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2024.213
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/48013
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metadata.value: Ẹbọ (sacrifice) is a universal religious concept that negotiates human desires and requests with
  God — the Supreme Being. This is done through intermediaries, who are religious progenitors
  or mediators across religions. Among the Yoruba people of Southwestern Nigeria, divinities
  are religious mediators. However, the opinions of worshippers of foreign religions among
  African in general and among the Yoruba in particular is that, ẹbọ which is sacrifice to God
  through the divinities are regarded as unholy and ungodly. To this effect, Yoruba indigenous
  religion worshippers are vilified; regarding them as ẹlẹ́bọ — the owner of sacrifice and infidels;
  with the wrong notion that, a true or holy worship should be devoid of sacrifice. Therefore,
  this study aims to investigate the concept of ẹbọ within the rubrics of African religion with
  particular reference to the Yoruba religious belief. Symbolism, a semiotic mode, where a thing
  or somebody representing one or other things aside itself is adopted; by espousing or unveiling
  the symbolisms of ẹbọ in Ifá, the religion of the Yoruba people. It is found out from the study
  that, ẹbọ is an unavoidable religious exercise for worshippers of all religions. Sacrifice takes
  different forms depending how it should be executed. The study concludes that in worship
  of any religion, implementation of ẹbọ is sacrosanct; and the more the religious adherents
  get involved in ẹbọ, the more they live in peace with spirit-beings, ancestors and God, the
  Supreme Being.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 16; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: African religion
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ancestors
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: divinities
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ẹbọ
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: God
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: human-beings
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ifá
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: spirit-beings
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Understanding the Concept of Ẹbọ (Sacrifice) within the Context of African Religion: Insights from the Faculties of Ifá among the Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria
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metadata.value: Article
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