The Yoruba religion (Yoruba: Ìṣẹ̀ṣe), West African Orisa (Òrìṣà), or Isese (Ìṣẹ̀ṣe), comprises the traditional religious and spiritual concepts and practice...

The Yoruba people (US: /ˈjɒrəbə/ YORR-ə-bə, UK: /ˈjɒrʊbə/ YORR-uub-ə; Yoruba: Ìran Yorùbá, Ọmọ Odùduwà, Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-oòjíire) are a West African ethnic...

often personified as an Orisha in its own right. It is believed by the Yoruba religion that human beings are able to heal themselves both spiritually and...

in Yoruba religion in one way or another.) The most prevalent West African religions, both in Africa and the Americas, are likely those of the Yoruba people...

Distinctive cultural norms prevail in Yorubaland and among the Yoruba people. The Yoruba are said to be religious people, but they are also pragmatic and...

and is present in Yoruba religion, Haitian Vodou, West African Vodun, and the folk religion of the Gbe people. In Yoruba religion, Ogun is a primordial...

Leone and The Gambia. Yoruba vocabulary is also used in the Afro-Brazilian religion known as Candomblé, in the Caribbean religion of Santería in the form...

religion varies greatly by region and subgroup. Similar to other traditional religions of West and Central Africa such as West African Vodun, Yoruba religion...

- are divine spirits that play a key role in the Yoruba religion of West Africa and several religions of the African diaspora that derive from it, such...

Yoruba àṣẹ), or aṣe is a Yoruba philosophy that is defined to represent the power that makes things happen and produces change in the Yoruba religion...