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Title:From disease etiology to disease treatment: an inquiry into religion and the Yoruba therapeutics
Author:Jegede, Charles ObafemiISNI
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]
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