Browsing by Author "Ogunbiyi, Olatunde Oyewole"

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    African Indigenous Religious Response to Global Debate on Homosexuality
    (Department of Religions, History and Heritage Studies, 2018) Ogunbiyi, Olatunde Oyewole; Okewande, Oluwole Tewogboye
    The global debate on homosexuality has been a major religious concern to different beliefs. This present work therefore acknowledges the abundance of literatures on global debates on homosexuality. Homosexuality, in the recent time, has taken different dimensions in several academic disciplines from religion, extending to politics and economic engagements. So far, the emphasis on the quantum of literature about homosexuality is either argument in favour of the phenomenon or against the idea. However, it is worthy of note, to say that, virtually believers of religions have attempted to contribute their quota to the argument or debate by taking an introspective look at the sacred writings of their respective religions. By way of filling a part of the lacuna in the literature, this study examines the sacred literature of the indigenous religion of the Yoruba people, especially, Ifa, in regards to homosexuality. It is noted that, Ifa, is the sacred genre for all the Yoruba divinities and the springboard on which the culture of the Yoruba people rests. The study as evinced from ija Literary Corpus established in strong terms, argument against the philosophical concept of homosexuality. The argument is generated from relevant stanzas of lJa corpus; which are hermeneutically explicated and analyzed. This becomes part of an epistemological consideration into the debate concerning the issue of homosexuality. The paper concludes that, although, there may be other positions on the issue of homosexuality, the sola scriptura of Yoruba traditional religious beliefs, is of the opinion that homosexuality is ungodly, unhealthy, immoral, unnatural and therefore forbidden; as such hampers development of individual, society and the nation at large. This is against the backdrop of Yoruba worldview that encourages the birth of children in perpetuity of the family. Furthermore, this study notes that while homosexual tendencies are abhorrent, homosexuals should not be rejected or stigmatized, rather they should be assisted to change their perceptions.
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    AFRICAN INDIGENOUS RELIGIOUS RESPONSE TO GLOBAL DEBATE ON HOMOSEXUALITY
    (Department of Religious Studies, 2018) Ogunbiyi, Olatunde Oyewole; Okewande, Oluwole Tewogboye
    The global debate on homosexuality has been a major religious concern to different beliefs. This present work, therefore acknowledges the abundance of literature on global debates on homosexuality. Homosexuality, in the recent time, has taken different dimensions in several academic disciplines from religion, extending to politics and economic engagements. So far, the emphasis on the quantum of literature about homosexuality is either argument in favour of the phenomenon or against the idea. However, it is worthy of note, to say that, virtuality believers of religions have attempted to contribute their quota to the argument or debate by taking an introspective look at the sacred writings of their respective religions.
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    BELIEFS AND VENERATION OF DIVINITIES
    (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) Lydia, Bosede Akande; Ogunbiyi, Olatunde Oyewole
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    THE BIBLICAL MINISTRY OF ANGELS IN THE THEOLOGY OF THE CHERUBIM AND SERAPHIM CHURCH
    (Department of Religious Studies, Ajayi Crowther University, 2022) Ogunbiyi, Olatunde Oyewole; Olubusola, Bosede Akinfenwa
    The Cherubim and Seraphim Church is one of the earliest indigenous churches in Nigeria. The foundation of the church is created to the peculiar constitution of a fearly old man in person of Moses Orimolade Tunolase and a young lady called Abiodun Akinsowon. The Church started in September 1925 following the celestial journey of Abiodun which culminated into the establishment of the Church. The Church has also grown into Europe and America. The Church has over the years embarked upon the mission of contextualizing Christianity in Africa in general and Nigeria in particular.
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    ILARI MOVIE: A RELIGIOUS METAPHOR FOR CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN POLITICAL SPACE
    (Department of French, Nasarawa State University, 2022) Ogunbiyi, Olatunde Oyewole
    That the Nigerian movie industry often referred to as Nollywood is one of the world's most producing movie industries is no longer news. The fact that its prolific productions often address one religious theme or the other is interesting. Many of Nollywood movies come from Southwest, Nigeria, a region noted for her rich inventory of parabolic words to express present truths. From the repertoir of their innuendos they often bring out issues of relative importance for all and sundry in different literary format.
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    MUSEUMS AND THE PROMOTION OF AFRICAN INDIGENOUS RELIGION IN YORUBALAND, NIGERIA
    (Department of Religious Studies, 2018) Ogunbiyi, Olatunde Oyewole
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    THE ROLE OF LIBRARIES IN PROMOTING THE DOCUMENTATION AND DISSEMINATION OF AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION IN SOUTH WESTERN NIGERIA
    (Pacific Northwest Association, 2013) Ogunbiyi, Olatunde Oyewole; Doreen, Yemisi Olorunfemi
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    SANGO OF YORUBA RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS AND PROPHET ELIJAH OF JUDAISM: A PARADIGMAGIC STUDY IN COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY
    (Faculty of Arts, A Journal of the Humanities, 2022) Ogunbiyi, Olatunde Oyewole
    Comparative Mythology is an aspect of the religious studies which allows are to look at the myths of religions all over the world across clime, time and continents. These Myths are put side by side with a view not to determine the bitter, but to understand the similarities and disimilarities, between the two.
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    SANGO: THE RELIGIO-MYTHICAL EXAMINATION OF A YORUBA DEITY
    (Department of Religious Studies, 2019) Ogunbiyi, Olatunde Oyewole; Akande, Lydia Bosede
    This paper considered the notion of whether Sango the king is the same as the mythical Sango, Available materials used for this study showed that both are different entities and personalities subsumed into a deity. Three areas of study emphasis were used in the elucidation of this work. The first is myth which served as a form of oral literature. The second is the veneration accorded to Sango and thirdly, the annual festival Sango worshippers observed every year. Earlier researches on Sango either limited themselves to Sango the mythical or Sango, the king while many scholars mix both together as Sango the King. The methodology applied in this study is the descriptive structural approach which covers myths and religion.
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    SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF JESUS' ETHNO-CULTURAL PROVERBIAL LANGUAGE OF MATTHEW 15: 21-28 IN AN AFRICAN SETTING
    (Department of English, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria & Department of French, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, 2022) Ogunbiyi, Olatunde Oyewole
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    SOCIO-SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS OF ORI-OKE AMONG INDIGENOUS CHURCHES
    (Langaa Research and Publishing, 2019) Olatunji, A.G.; Ogunbiyi, Olatunde Oyewole
    Spiritual objects are items that the people of a society attached sacred value to and as a result, are given special and sacred attentions. More so, the items to be revered are always the consequences of socio-cultural practices and beliefs of the people. This study is an attempt to examine the socio-spiritual dynamics of Ori-Oke as conceived by indigenous church members specific set of christian Visitors to Ori-Oke as the object of empirical analysis. To achieve this objectives, the study adopted survey method.
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    UNDERSTANDING THE BIBLE IN THE NIGERIAN CONTEXT: AN EXAMINATION OF ESU IN THE YORUBA BIBLE
    (1, 2022) Ogunbiyi, Olatunde Oyewole; Olusola, Bosede Akinfenwa
    Today, we have had several translations of the Bible into Yoruba language. However, one thing that has been constant in these translations is the Esu, used for Satan to the English that Yoruba traditional religious consciousness.