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- W2000302045 abstract "Among the Yoruba people of West Africa, the prayerful aspect of the oral medium of communication between man and the gods is known as iwu're. Iwure is the totality of the Yoruba traditional prayer par excellence. To date there has been no special academic treatment of iwure; all we have can only be described as passing remarks. To quote Shorter (1975: 1): Prayer is the central phenomenon of religion, and although the study of religion has received increasingly serious attention from social anthropologists, it would seem that less than justice has been done by them to the subject of prayer. Truly, except for the efforts of the present writer, no one has researched the subject of iwu're in the Yoruba thought system. The focus of this paper, therefore, is an attempt at a purely descriptive account of iwure with particular emphasis on the petitionary aspects of the prayers from man to the gods and the subsequent blessings returning from the gods to man. Yoruba thought sanctions three major hopes and aspirations of men which manifest themselves in the following words:" @default.
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- W2000302045 title "Iwuré: Medium of Communicating the Desires of Men To the Gods in Yorubaland" @default.
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