Acknowledgments Introduction by Eric M. Bridges, Sheila Smith McKoy and LaJuan Simpson Wilkey Chapter 1: An Interview with Dr. Wándé Abímbólá by Eric M. Bridges and Stephen Agyemang-Koehler Chapter 2: Ori and Ifá: Navigating a Contentious World by Eric Adewusi Mason Chapter 3: The Earth Itself is Sacred: Nature's Personification in the Ifa/Orisha Religion by Raisa Parnell Chapter 4: Place, Space, and Identity Formation at Oyotunji Village by Kenja McCray and Antionette B. Brown-Waithe Chapter 5: "To Harness my Own Power: Ifa, Gender, and Healing by Sheila Smith-McKoy Chapter 6: The Osun Effect: Beyonce, Ifa, and the Complexities of Black Women's Empowerment by Funlayo E. Wood Chapter 7: Looking Back to Look Forward: Applying Akan and Yoruba Science in Sankofa Afrofuturist Pedagogy (SAP) and Practice by Khalilah Ali Chapter 8: Describing Inexplicable Aché by Vanessa Navarro Maza Chapter 9: Christianity and Ifa: African Spirituality in an American Context by LaJuan Simpson Wilkey and Stephen Agyemang-Koehler Chapter 10: When Mouths Can No Longer Fight and Breasts That Swing Like Ifá: The Wisdom of Ifá on Preventing World Hunger, War, and the Life Sustaining Virtues of The Female Breasts! by Jo Anna Hunter, priest name Ìyánifá Omótinúwé Chapter 11: "A Bastard People. Singing and Crying in the Wilderness! Ifá and the Chance at Legitimacy for Diasporic Africans in America by Michael Lindsay Conclusion by Sheila Smith McKoy About the Contributors.