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Title: | From disease etiology to disease treatment: an inquiry into religion and the Yoruba therapeutics |
Author: | Jegede, Charles Obafemi |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | Orita: Ibadan Journal of Religious Studies |
Volume: | 38 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Pages: | 167-186 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | traditional medicine Yoruba healing rites African religions |
Abstract: | In the indigenous science of traditional medical practitioners among the Yoruba of Nigeria, science and religion, the physical and the spiritual, the natural and the supernatural are inseparable. This paper examines how religion influences the healing process - etiology, diagnosis and treatment - in Yoruba traditional medical practice. It looks at the role of cosmology; personalistic (such as divinities, spirits and 'good' and 'bad' witches), naturalistic and emotional causes of illness; and the role of religion in disease treatment, paying attention to the use of incantation, and rituals. Notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |