Home›Sources›Welang, "The Death and Resurrection of Oshun in Beyonce's Lemonade," Journal of Popular Culture, 2021SourcesWelang, "The Death and Resurrection of Oshun in Beyonce's Lemonade," Journal of Popular Culture, 2021Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Welang, "The Death and Resurrection of Oshun in Beyonce's Lemonade," Journal of Popular Culture, 2021." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/welang-death-and-resurrection-of-oshun-in-lemonade-jpc-2021.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Welang, "The Death and Resurrection of Oshun in Beyonce's Lemonade," Journal of Popular Culture, 2021. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/welang-death-and-resurrection-of-oshun-in-lemonade-jpc-2021Copy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-welang-the-death-and-resurrection-of-osh, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Welang, "The Death and Resurrection of Oshun in Beyonce's Lemonade," Journal of Popular Culture, 2021}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/welang-death-and-resurrection-of-oshun-in-lemonade-jpc-2021}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXA peer reviewed article reading Beyonce's Lemonade through the lens of the orisha Oshun and Yoruba religious thought. Its strength is that it is a sustained scholarly treatment of exactly the imagery this entry cites, the "Hold Up" sequence's yellow costuming, water and wrath, read against Oshun's documented mythic attributes rather than a general impression of the video. Its limit is that it is one scholar's literary and religious studies reading, not a survey of Yoruba or Santeria practitioner opinion, which the two sources below supply instead.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (18 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1Reliability tier 1: a peer-reviewed academic journal article, Journal of Popular Culture, carrying volume, issue and page numbers and a named author, the strongest available evidentiary form for a claim about a text's cultural reception.NotesWell-attestedDOI 10.1111/jpcu.13050. Full title: "The Death and Resurrection of Oshun in Beyonce's Lemonade: Subverting the Institutionalized Borders of Western Christian Thought in American Popular Culture." Bibliographic details confirmed against the publisher's own abstract page; cited here for its documented reading of the Oshun imagery, not for a full read of its argument behind the paywall.CitationAuthorWell-attestedNahum WelangPublisherWell-attestedJournal of Popular Culture, Vol. 54, No. 4, pages 750 to 770Publication YearWell-attested2021URLWell-attestedhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.13050Source TypeWell-attestedpeer-reviewed articleClaims Backed By This Source (18 claims)This source backs 18 claims across the atlas. As facts: 15 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicMusical Works, 10 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.Well-attested15Musical WorksLemonade (Visual Album)SourcesWelang, "The Death and Resurrection of Oshun in Beyonce's Lemonade," Journal of Popular Culture, 2021Holds2Musical WorksLemonade (Visual Album)General References1Musical WorksLemonade (Visual Album)Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year