The King’s Five Bodies: Pentecostals in the Sacred City and the Logic of Interreligious Dialogue

Inspired by Jacob Olupona’s important book, I provide an account of the Yorùbá political theology of sovereign flesh by examining the “five bodies” of the Ooni of Ifẹ̀. I then correlate the king’s five bodies with the five dimensions of the Ifá divination tray and also deploy them to formulate principles of interreligious dialogue between Pentecostalism and traditional religion.