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Ayodeji Ogunnaike

Academic title(s): 

Assistant Professor of African Religions; Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in the Globalization of African Religions and Yoruba Mythology

Ayodeji Ogunnaike
Contact Information
Address: 

3520 University Street, Room 020
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2A7, Canada

Fax number: 
514-396-6665
Email address: 
ayodeji.ogunnaike [at] mcgill.ca
Degree(s): 

B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard)

Specialization: 

African indigenous/traditional religions, Islam in Africa, Christianity in Africa, Afro-diasporic religions, African mythology, comparative religion, history of religion.

Biography: 

Professor Ogunnaike teaches interdisciplinary courses on Africa and the African Diaspora that center around the important role religion plays in these communities. His research focusses mostly on Yoruba ori峁 worship in Nigeria, but also addresses Islam in Africa, Christianity in Africa, and diaspora religions鈥擝razilian Candombl茅 in particular.

Having studied Ifa divination with a high priest and diviner in Nigeria, he has a keen interest in indigenous African intellectual traditions and mythology. With his brother, Professor Oludamini Ogunnaike, he is the author of the forthcoming Yoruba Mythology: Ori峁 Stories from West Africa and the Diaspora, the first widely accessible, major anthology of Yoruba mythology. His first book, How Worship Becomes Religion, analyzes how the worship of traditional Yoruba deities originally differed greatly from Western notions of 鈥渞eligion鈥 but eventually became the most widespread and celebrated indigenous African religion through contact with modernity and mission Christianity. He is currently working on a project to study and protect the rights of Africana religious practitioners in Canada and a new book project The Nigerian Female King of Sheba which investigates the dynamic nature of traditional Yoruba mythology, time and sacred history, gender, identity, and politics.

Selected publications: 
  • (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2026).
  • 聽(Duke University Press, 2026).
  • "鈥 in Topographies of African Spirituality: Essays in Honour of Professor Jacob Olupona (Routledge, 2024).
  • "" Essay, MAVCOR Journal 6, no. 2 (2022): 1-52.
  • 鈥淲hy Are Indigenous African and Afro-Diasporic Religions Relevant to You?鈥 in Indigenous Religious Traditions in 5 Minutes eds. Molly Bassett and Natalie Avalos (Sheffield, UK: Equinnox, 2022).
  • 鈥淲hat鈥檚 Really Behind the Mask?: A re-examination of Syncretism in Brazilian Candombl茅鈥 Journal of Africana Religions (2020): 146-171.
  • Oyinbo 峄宮峄 A峁gun Dere: An analysis of racial injustice, gun violence, and sexual assault, in America through a traditional Yoruba perspective.鈥 Journal of Interreligious Studies (2018): 103-26.
  • 鈥淢amalawo?: The Controversy over Women Practicing Ifa Divination鈥 Journal of the African Association for the Study of Religion (2018): 15-34.

A list of more publications聽at this link .

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