Afro-American religion

Afro-American religions (also African diasporic religions) are a cardinal of accompanying religions that developed in the Americas amid African disciplinarian and their birth in assorted countries of the Caribbean Islands and Latin America, as able-bodied as genitalia of the southern United States. They acquire from African acceptable religions, abnormally of West and Central Africa, assuming similarities to the Yoruba adoration in particular.

These religions usually absorb antecedent account and/or a pantheon of all-powerful spirits, such as the loas of Haitian Vodou, or the orishas of Santería. Similar all-powerful alcohol are additionally begin in the Central and West African traditions from which they acquire — the orishas of Yoruba cultures, the nkisi of Bantu (Kongo) traditions, and the Vodun of Dahomey (Benin), Togo, southern Ghana, and Burkina Faso. In accession to bond these assorted but accompanying African traditions, abounding Afro-American religions absorb elements of Christian, aboriginal American, Kardecist, Spiritualist and alike Islamic traditions. This bond of traditions is accepted as religious syncretism.

Some syncretic fresh religious movements accept elements of these African religions, but are predominantly abiding in added airy traditions. A aboriginal beachcomber of such movements originated in the aboriginal twentieth century:

* Santo Daime (folk Catholicism and Spiritism, Brazil);

* Moorish Science Temple of America (Islam and Christianity, USA);

* Nation of Islam (Islam, USA); and

* Rastafari movement (Abrahamic, Jamaica).

A additional beachcomber of fresh movements originated in the 1960s to 1970s, in the ambience of the actualization of Fresh Age and Neopaganism in the United States:

* União do Vegetal (Brazil, entheogenic, back 1961);

* Vale do Amanhecer (Brazil, Spiritism, back 1965);

* Ausar Auset Society (USA, Kemetism, Pan-Africanism, back 1973); and

* Black Buddhist Community in America (USA, Buddhism, back the 1960s).