Religion in America #4: “America's Religions,” Ch. 2, African Background to New World Religions
Jan 2025
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In this lecture/discussion video from my Spring 2014 Religion in America class at Marist college, we begin to discuss the textbook for the class (America's Religions: From Their Origins to the Twenty-first Century 3rd. ed., by Peter Williams), focusing on Chapter 2, "The African Background of New World Religions" We discuss in particular the forced immigration from Africa (especially West Africa) to the Americas, how different dynamics affected the capacities of African slaves to continue practicing indigenous religions of Africa in the Americas, and the forms that these new religions -- including Santeria, Candomble, Vodun, Shango, and others -- took...... 
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