Download PDF by Wallace W. Zane: Journeys to the Spiritual Lands: The Natural History of a

By Wallace W. Zane

ISBN-10: 0195128451

ISBN-13: 9780195128451

even if a lot has been written at the Afro-Catholic syncretic religions of Vodou, Candomble, and Santeria, the religious Baptists--an Afro-Caribbean faith in line with Protestant Christianity--have obtained little cognizance. This paintings deals the 1st exact exam of the religious Baptists or "Converted". in response to 18 months of fieldwork at the Island of St. Vincent (where the faith arose) and between Vincentian immigrants in Brooklyn, Zane's research makes a contribution to the literature on African-American and African Diaspora faith and the anthropology of faith extra generally.

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