domain americas ★ seed

Americas

New World religious movements — from Pentecostalism to Mormonism, Santeria to Candomble.

#region #new-world #revivalism

Sub-topics

Santeria (Regla de Ocha) concept

Afro-Cuban syncretic religion, 16th-19th century. Yoruba orishas mapped to Catholic saints by enslaved Africans. Animal sacrifice, divination, drumming. ~100 million practitioners across the Americas.

Candomble concept

Afro-Brazilian religion, 16th-19th century. Yoruba, Fon, and Bantu traditions blended with Catholicism. Orixas (spirits), terreiros (temples), and ecstatic dance ceremonies.

Haitian Vodou concept

Syncretic religion combining West African Vodun with Catholicism, born in Haiti during slavery. Lwa (spirits), possession rituals, and Veve symbols. Deeply tied to Haitian identity and revolution.

Rastafari concept

Emerged in 1930s Jamaica. Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia as God incarnate (Jah). African repatriation, rejection of Babylon (Western society), cannabis as sacrament. Reggae as spiritual expression.