Oludamini Ogunnaike (born 1985) is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia.[1] He immigrated to the United States from Nigeria with his family when he was four.[2]
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| Born | 1985[a] |
| Occupation | Associate professor of religious studies |
| Employer | University of Virginia |
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| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Thesis | The language of prejudice: The influence of language on implicit attitudes (2006-2007) |
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| Website | https://virginia.academia.edu/OludaminiOgunnaike |
Education
editHe holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in African studies and the study of religion from Harvard University, along with an A.B. in cognitive neuroscience and African studies from Harvard College.[1] He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and received a Rockefeller Fellowship while an undergraduate student at Harvard.[3] He also won a Gordon W. Allport Prize for his senior thesis, "The language of prejudice: The influence of language on implicit attitudes" in 2006-2007.[4] He continued to study language and how it can affect perception and prejudice.[5][6]
Select publications
editBooks
edit- Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection: West African Madīḥ Poetry and its Precedents (2020)[7]
- Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions (2020)[8]
Chapters
edit- Ogunnaike, Oludamini (2023). "13: A Sufi Vocabulary from the Sokoto Caliphate: Shaykh Dan Tafa's Poem on Sufi Nomenclature (al-Manẓūma li-l-iṣṭilāḥ al-ṣūfiyya)". In Rustom, Mohammed (ed.). Islamic Thought and the Art of Translation. Islamic History and Civilization. Vol. 202. doi:10.1163/9789004529038_014. ISBN 9789004529038.
Articles
edit- "From Theory to Theoria and Back Again and Beyond: Decolonizing the Study of Africana Religions". Journal of Africana Religions. 10 (2): 74–211. July 1, 2022. doi:10.5325/jafrireli.10.2.0174.
- "All Muhammad, All the Time: Shaykh Ibrāhim Niāsse's Prophetic Poetics of Praise in Three Treatises and Poems". Journal of the Institute for Sufi Studies. 1 (2): 66–111. 2022. doi:10.32739/ustad.2022.2.30.
- "Of Cannons and Canons: The Promise and Perils of Postcolonial Education". Renovatio: The Journal of Zaytuna College. December 11, 2018.
- "Performing Realization: The Sufi Music Videos of the Taalibe Baye of Dakar". African Arts. 51 (3): 26–39. Autumn 2018. doi:10.1162/afar_a_00414.
Notes
edit- ^ See VIAF and "National: United States" files in "Authority control databases"
References
edit- ^ a b "Oludamini Ogunnaike". Islamic Worlds Initiative. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
- ^ Whitaker, Rachel E. (February 23, 2006). "Oludamini D. Ogunnaike '07". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
- ^ Sung, Victoria D. (May 2, 2007). "Oludamini D. Ogunnaike '07". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
- ^ "Psychology Undergraduate Program: Thesis Prizes". Harvard University. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
- ^ Shwayder, Maya (November 2, 2010). "Change languages, shift responses". The Harvard Gazette. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
- ^ Oludamini Ogunnaike; Yarrow Dunham; Mahzarin R. Banaji (November 2010). "The language of implicit preferences". Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 46 (6): 999–1003. doi:10.1016/J.JESP.2010.07.006. ISSN 0022-1031. Wikidata Q56594905.
- ^ Reviews of Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection: West African Madīḥ Poetry and its Precedents:
- Wright, Zachary (December 24, 2020). "Oludamini Ogunnaike, Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection: a Study of West African Madīḥ Poetry and its Precedents". Islamic Africa. 11 (1): 145–148. doi:10.1163/21540993-01101007. ISSN 0803-0685.
- Syed, Amir (October 1, 2022). "Ogunnaike, Oludamini. Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection: A Study of West African Arabic Madīḥ Poetry and Its Precedents". The Journal of Religion. 102 (4): 585–587. doi:10.1086/721296. ISSN 0022-4189.
- Wood Smith, Adnan Adrian (March 25, 2021). "Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection: A Study of West African Arabic Madīḥ Poetry and its Precedents, written by Oludamini Ogunnaike". Journal of Sufi Studies. 9 (1): 153–156. doi:10.1163/22105956-12341321. ISSN 2210-5948.
- Petrone, M. (2020). Oludamini Ogunnaike, Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection. A Study of West African Arabic Madīḥ Poetry and Its Precedents, London, The Islamic Texts Society 2019. Occhialì, 7, 76-78.
- Boylston, Nicholas (2021). "Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection: A Study of West African Arabic Mad?? Poetry and its Precedents (By Oludamini Ogunnaike)". Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies. 5 (2): 84–88. doi:10.2979/jims.5.2.06. ISSN 2470-7074.
- ^ Reviews of Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions:
- D’Silva, Patrick J (December 31, 2021). "Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions. By Oludamini Ogunnaike". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 89 (4): 1495–1497. doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfab084. ISSN 0002-7189.
- Alhourani, Ala Rabiha (July 18, 2023). "Deep Knowledge; Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions, written by Ogunnaike, Oludamini". Journal of Religion in Africa. 54 (1): 96–99. doi:10.1163/15700666-12340275. ISSN 0022-4200.
- "DEEP KNOWLEDGE. WAYS OF KNOWING IN SUFISM AND IFA, TWO WEST AFRICAN INTELLECTUAL TRADITIONS". Religious Studies Review. 49 (2): 244–244. 2023. doi:10.1111/rsr.16484. ISSN 0319-485X.
- Glover, John (2021). "Oludamini Ogunnaike: Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 84 (3): 602–604. doi:10.1017/S0041977X22000179. ISSN 0041-977X.